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Bank invests in low latency monitoring
News Global investment bank Credit Suisse is rolling out a monitoring system for its low-latency network. The CorvilNet Latency Management System, supplied by Corvil and implemented by BT, allows network administrators to specify latency benchmarks and... [23 Jun 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News The long-term evolution of 3G, Patel said, was "at least two to three years out before it can happen", and would not be significantly cheaper than investment in WiMax because it would also require operators to "rip out and replace their entire 3G... [09 May 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Alongside the economic downturn, Infosys has identified a number of areas of increased investment in financial services. Maybe after time or even a few generations, the family amasses wealth and they get into some investment activities. [03 Mar 2008]
3G operators must learn to share
News Emerging technologies such as femtocells and LTE (long term evolution - the intended evolution of 3G) will require substantial investment in the near term. And operators acting alone will not be able to deliver such investment quickly enough... [29 Feb 2008]
Open source gains business credibility
News Investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International uses open source in a small part of the organisation. Nic Evans, European IT director for Key Equipment Finance, said his company uses Linux operating systems for critical applications and for... [22 Feb 2008]
2008: Crunch time for IT jobs?
News Julia Bosworth, a manager on the contract staff side of the business for recruitment company Project Partners, which specialises in finding IT staff for the FS sector, said while demand for contract staff has been high some of the big investment... [10 Jan 2008]
Encryption not the key to data security
News But those in favour of greater use of encryption to secure data include Graham Yellowley, director of technology services for investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International. Even so, it would be just one piece of the jigsaw - you need to... [07 Dec 2007]
Hedge fund manager in £3.5m IT deal with Savvis
News Under the terms of the deal, Savvis will provide Augustus with resilient trading systems used by its 17 investment professionals. Augustus information systems manager Sonal Amin said in a statement: "Now my IT team can focus on keeping the... [06 Dec 2007]
Torex Retail looks to future
News When private investment company Cerberus bought Torex in June this year it flew in its own management team. He explained the staff will be going through a training programme, so the management can "impose its DNA" on the organisation. [13 Nov 2007]
BA to roll out email to workers' mobiles
News BA CIO Paul Coby said in a statement: "ESS is one of my favourite programmes because it has delivered an enormous business transformational bang for a very small investment buck. According to BA manager for employee self-service (ESS), Allen Huish... [31 Oct 2007]
Credit crunch hits tech contractors
News He said IT skills will remain important for the financial sector as retail banks will continue to need IT people to work on security and e-banking, while investment banks will need them to deal with risk management and compliance. [31 Oct 2007]
Financial institutions hurt by homegrown tech?
News According to a survey of 103 IT managers and senior leaders in the retail banking, investment banking and insurance sectors compiled by applications management company Managed Objects, just under a third of respondents said up to 75 per cent of... [23 Oct 2007]
CIOs face tough on-demand choices
News Lindsey Armstrong, co-European president for Salesforce.com, said SaaS can provide quick wins and fast return on investment for under-pressure CIOs. But Fortis Investment now has 160 Salesforce.com seats and is looking to expand that to 200. [20 Sep 2007]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News Back in May, three-quarters of silicon.com's CIO Jury said virtualisation was a current investment priority, as they looked to consolidate the number of servers they have, to reduce power usage and cut costs. [14 Sep 2007]
Wilkinson shouts about £1.4m distribution system
News The system will replace the retailer's existing paper trail within the distribution centres, allowing it to reap the benefits of increased productivity and greater order-selection accuracy, which the suppliers - Psion Teklogix and Vocollect... [21 Aug 2007]
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