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Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News Gill said: "So it's a really good rounded expertise that they come out with," describing the MCDST as "a specific benchmark along the Microsoft curriculum roadmap". Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country learn about the joys of IT... [23 Jul 2008]
How good is your information management?
News The latest benchmark from silicon.com will help you measure how your plans compare against your peers. Find out more about the benchmark here. How do you manage information inside your organisation? Worried about privacy and compliance? [02 Jun 2008]
Inflation-busting tech budgets predicted
News The NCC's The Benchmark of IT Spending 2008 survey included responses from 120 organisations with a combined IT spend of more than £750m. Tech spending in the UK is likely to increase at a quicker rate than inflation over the next twelve months... [10 Mar 2008]
Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy
News Investors include Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, IVP, Intel, SAP and Red Hat. Sun Microsystems are to pay $1bn for MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said it will pay about $800m in cash for MySQL's privately held stock and... [16 Jan 2008]
One year on: XP still outshining Vista
News However, when Vista with the SP1 beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Devil Mountain Software the improvement was not overwhelming - leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor. [28 Nov 2007]
How Topshop.com survives the Kate Moss effect
News ASOS is one of the online apparel retailers that we would see as the benchmark. When Topshop launched the Kate Moss range earlier this year, its website traffic leapt from its average of 1.5 million page views per day to 5 million. [22 Nov 2007]
IKEA bolts on delivery tracking
News Marshall explained when it switched to the electronic system, the retailer only then found out the previous benchmark of 96 per cent delivery success rate was not actually being reached. He said: "Now we have complete accuracy of data down the... [15 Nov 2007]
Bank managers admit failing to handle tech
News The managers were asked how they would benchmark themselves on a number of commercial aspects, including information, people, processes, strategy and technology. Senior managers in UK banks have a good opinion of their staff and strategy - but a... [01 Nov 2007]
Will Apple's iPhone drive citywide wi-fi?
News Bill Gurley, a general partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, told conference attendees that the wi-fi enabled iPhone, along with RIM's newly announced Blackberry 8820 and other wi-fi enabled handsets will help drive the need for... [24 Oct 2007]
LSE invests in network monitoring
News The LSE has implemented a network latency monitoring and analysis application provided by Corvil to make sure network latency is below the benchmark end-to-end five milliseconds with no packet loss. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has rolled out a... [23 Oct 2007]
Thorntons whips up suppliers with reverse auctions
News Each of the three contracts is reaping a saving 15 per cent above the benchmark set when Thorntons awarded the deal. Chocolate retailer Thorntons has secured significant savings by switching its reverse auction procurement services to Wax Digital... [09 Oct 2007]
Wi-fi security left out in the cold
News The research is part of the NCC Benchmark of IT Strategy 2007 report which looks at current trends in IT strategy in 190 end user organisations. IT body the National Computing Centre (NCC) is warning that although organisations are addressing IT... [04 Sep 2007]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News Linked via a Myrinet interconnect platform, the system can reach a measured performance of 19.04 teraflops using the industry's Linpack benchmark. This machine has recorded a Linpack benchmark performance of 280.6 teraflops per second. [11 Jul 2007]
Happy birthday silicon.com - nine today
News Even at the grand old age of nine silicon.com is still coming up with innovative ways of delivering the information its readers need - for example this year launching the silicon.com CIO 50, celebrating the top technology leaders in the UK, as... [06 Jul 2007]
Volkswagen slashes IT costs
News VW is the benchmark. Europe's biggest car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) has ditched thousands of IT systems and reduced IT headcount by a fifth as part of a drive to overhaul the group's business processes and cut the time it takes to bring new... [12 Jun 2007]
