application performance in news
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News The £7.2m secure web-based application pulls information together from police, CPS and court computer systems to chart defendants' progress.silicon.com Public Sector It is able to scale up from individual courts or forces to provide an overview of... [17 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News Of those organisations surveyed, almost half said they see virtualisation as standard for new application deployment now or within "a few years".silicon.com Classics Some of the problems involved in measuring returns from virtualised estates arise... [08 Jul 2008]
Tech failing to meet business expectations
News More than half (57 per cent) of respondents said they've experienced increased costs as a result of poor application performance, while 48 per cent said they've lost revenue for the same reason. This failure of SLAs can result in poor performance... [23 Jun 2008]
Oracle takes on SAP with retail apps
News Oracle has released the latest version of its Retail application suite, a move the company says is the most significant product launch of the division's three-year history. Forrester Research principal analyst George Lawrie told silicon.com that... [18 Jun 2008]
Royal Mail on target to save £300m with SAP
News Royal Mail also uses the SAP financial application and plans to upgrade to SAP's SRM 7.0 and add a supplier collaboration module in the near future. Royal Mail director of performance and transformation, Daniel Cameron, explained to silicon.com... [22 May 2008]
The future, in 3D
News I can use this prototype to talk to people around the world," he explained after showing a video of the application in use. The inventor also demonstrated a document capture application running on a cameraphone which was able to convert a... [19 May 2008]
Video app the highway to healthy roads
News Hampshire County Council is trialling an extension to its road management systems with an asset-counting application based on video capture. It can identify road furniture, such as signage, street lighting, road markings bus lanes and speed cameras... [12 May 2008]
Sales staff: Worst IT offenders
News Workers outside the office are also the most likely to suffer from poor internet and application performance, the survey by research house e-Media found. Nigel Hawthorn, VP EMEA marketing at Blue Coat which commissioned the research, said that... [11 Apr 2008]
Is your network performance getting you down?
News Other common bugbears include bandwidth consumption, application latency, sporadic performance errors and ensuring application delivery. IT teams are dedicating increasing amounts of time on getting to the bottom of network performance issues. [01 Apr 2008]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News Kevin Marks: I say, "OK, stop and think about your application. Do you really want to write user registration code, or would you be better off taking your application and bringing these other sites where there are lots of users already and where... [03 Mar 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News Hector uses a Cray XT4 system with software and application support provided by NAG. The EPCC claims Hector will take high performance supercomputing up "another gear" and will play a key role in allowing scientists to be at the forefront of research. [15 Jan 2008]
India top choice for UK outsourcing
News He added: "This is all being driven by technology, the speed of processors and telecommunications together with cleverer application interfaces and graphical user interfaces. The report by advisory firm EquaTerra, entitled the Outsourcing Service... [11 Jan 2008]
Thomas Cook outsources to Accenture
News It concentrates on accounting, application management, finance, human resources and infrastructure management services. In a statement, Kevin Campbell, Accenture's chief executive of outsourcing, said: "High performing companies like Thomas Cook... [06 Nov 2007]
Royal Mail opts for SAP to cut sourcing costs
News Royal Mail is aiming to save £300m on procurement costs by 2009 with the help of a hosted e-sourcing application from SAP. The SAP application went live in June after a relatively short two-phase implementation of just over three months and is... [26 Oct 2007]
LSE invests in network monitoring
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has rolled out a monitoring application for its TradeElect electronic trading system to make sure it is running at optimal levels. The LSE has implemented a network latency monitoring and analysis application... [23 Oct 2007]
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