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News Morrow said the video rental company needed to make a change and the option to move to Exchange without having to bring that skillset in-house was a key selling point, as was the ability to offer better mobile options,... [18 Nov 2008]
85 per cent of companies embracing open source
News However, only 31 per cent of companies surveyed by the analyst house had formal policies for evaluating and procuring open source software (OSS). The analyst house's survey put governance issues at the... [18 Nov 2008]
Lords: 'Do we really need £12bn super comms database?'
News Speaking in the House of Lords today, she asked: "Is this going to be the most effective way to fight terrorism given the estimated cost is up to £12bn? The Lords have questioned the value of a '£12bn super database' to... [17 Nov 2008]
'Telcos must join Google's cloud, not fight it'
News Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned. Such is the take-up of Google's online services that telcos looking to expand into... [17 Nov 2008]
Shared services spend to reach £4bn by 2012
News According to analysts at research house Ovum, the total spend on shared services in the public sector between 2007 and 2012 will amount to £3.9bn. By 2012, the UK public sector will be spending £729m on shared services,... [17 Nov 2008]
High fashion gets high tech with SaaS embrace
News A quarter of companies surveyed raised concerns about the responsiveness of SaaS and whether service levels would be as high as an in-house option. Fashion retailers are champing at the bit to embrace software as a... [14 Nov 2008]
Council trio tighten grip on public data
News Data held within it is cross checked using in-house matching software so that a multiplicity of departmental databases can be updated with changes to inviduals' details at the same time. Three councils have inked a new... [14 Nov 2008]
'Lack of trust' stop top cops' data swaps
News European Union member states aren't trusting each other when it comes to sharing data - leaving police forces in the dark about international crime, the House of Lords European Union committee has found. [12 Nov 2008]
There's no escape from the cloud, say CIOs
News Others felt the flexibility of not having to maintain and upgrade an in-house software estate is the bigger benefit. CIOs and other tech bosses appear are welcoming the advent of cloud computing, but not everyone's... [11 Nov 2008]
Beat bobbies need more cash for smartphones
News However, the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has called for even more cash to be made available to mobilise every front line bobby. Despite calls for more money to give all frontline police officers access to... [10 Nov 2008]
Credit crunch could drive banks to SaaS security
News And Edmund Comber, manager of IT security and technical development at investment bank Rothschild, told silicon.com that economic uncertainty means businesses may favour the predictable pricing model of SaaS compared to the unpredictable... [10 Nov 2008]
Broadband speeds going down toilet without fibre
News Discussing the business case for deploying fibre at a Westminster eForum keynote seminar on next-gen broadband, Ian Fogg, research director at analyst house Forrester Research, warned: "If we get this wrong - which we... [06 Nov 2008]
Don't dither over IT in the downturn, banks told
News Analyst house Gartner says organisations that attempt a third way by treading the middle ground risk blowing their IT budget and having little to show for it. Financial institutions are being warned they have two tech... [05 Nov 2008]
Orange notches up three million mobile data addicts
News Analyst house Analysys recently predicted around a quarter of broadband homes in the UK will ditch fixed-line fat pipes in favour of internet access via 3G networks in five years' time. Orange customers' appetite for... [04 Nov 2008]
Google pledges reliability for its cloud-based Apps
News Specific promises can help allay concerns about the risks of moving from in-house computing systems to cloud computing, where somebody such as Google runs software as a service. Customers paying Google for Gmail are... [31 Oct 2008]
