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AstraZeneca simplifies outsourcing rules

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has simplified its approach to...

Tags: astrazeneca, offshoring, outsourcing

[19 May 2008]

Lloyds TSB offshores 450 tech jobs to India

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Hundreds of IT jobs could be lost at Lloyds TSB as part of the bank...

Tags: lloyds tsb, outsourcing, offshoring

[19 May 2008]

Lloyds TSB offshores 450 tech jobs to India

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Hundreds of IT jobs could be lost at Lloyds TSB as part of the bank...

Tags: lloyds tsb, outsourcing, offshoring

[19 May 2008]

Wi-fi for free onboard commuter coach

News The service offers us not only the managed wi-fi service but the ability in the future to connect other systems such as ticketing and security over the internet to our operations centre. Independent bus operator Trent Barton has equipped eight of...

Tags: nottingham, wifi, bus

[19 May 2008]

Nato fires up cyber defences

News A Nato cyber defence centre of excellence has been formally established to carry out research and training in how to combat cyber warfare. The centre will be based in Tallinn in Estonia and will be used to train Nato's civilian and military staff...

Tags: security, training, estonia, cyber attack

[16 May 2008]

HP seals $13.9bn deal for EDS

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? HP has completed a $13.9bn deal to create one of the world's largest...

Tags: saas, hp, eds

[13 May 2008]

Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching according...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Working with Intel and supercomputing specialist SGI, the Advanced Supercomputing facility at Nasa's Ames research centre in California will be able to deal with increasingly complex modelling and simulation work.

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News These computational workhorses and their predecessors at the Met Office Hadley Centre crunched through global data to produce evidence for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, whose predictions of a 0.2C temperature rise per...

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News The announcement comes as a study by the centre-right think tank, Policy Exchange, said the government had missed 60 per cent of its green targets set since 1997, including providing five per cent of electricity from renewables by 2003.

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News But what we've added to that is a prioritisation process where calls into our call centre from businesses are prioritised over others. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband...

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Fahy said the drive for efficiency at Lehman Brothers has meant the company has shifted to charging for internal services based on consumption - by calculating how much resource is required to run individual applications, instead of, say...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News The world's largest technology services company is offering software that tracks and caps data centre energy consumption, including power for air conditioning to cool server computers. IBM's green data centre initiative has already begun to pay off...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News A national centre to co-ordinate strategy for combating fraud in England and Wales should be in place by next year. The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales (AGO) wants a National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of all types of...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News Care was needed in implementing these changes at its call centre as IT has the potential to have a very noticeable impact on productivity in that environment. That doesn't mean ringing up some guy who's a manager in the call centre and saying 'we...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Every adopted village has a health centre, some with remote...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

China key to Indian IT growth

News China will take centre stage for this growth, with Satyam planning to boost its 1,000-strong employee base there to 10,000 and to increase the number of development centres in the country from the five it currently owns.

Tags: satyam, offshore, outsource, centres

[21 Apr 2008]

Single-sign-on system makes sense for logistics firm

News The supply chain specialist manages more than one billion square feet of warehousing space supported by 1,600 vehicles across Europe and has retailers such as Argos and Early Learning Centre on its books.

Tags: password, argos, security, sign

[21 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News He said: "The surge in online content is at the centre of the most dramatic changes affecting the internet today. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

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