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Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The research found that open-source users are avoiding replacing existing proprietary systems because of the cost of migration and technical challenges in changing from proprietary SQL extensions and application programming interfaces. [24 Jul 2008]
Is your network performance getting you down?
News Globally, migration to multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) data networks appears to be steady, the survey found, with most organisations still in the early stages of adoption. IT teams are dedicating increasing amounts of time on getting to the... [01 Apr 2008]
Vista - businesses not convinced
News A survey of 961 independently selected IT professionals found 90 per cent still have concerns about the migration to Vista and 48 per cent have not yet deployed Vista in any way. Citing hard usage data of OS' used to access popular websites, he... [26 Nov 2007]
Co-op Group polls customers at the till
News The system builds on an existing Epos upgrade which was driven by the migration to chip and PIN payment methods in 2006. The retailer can now survey up to 300,000 customers and process the data within 24 hours, according to Co-operative Group... [10 Aug 2007]
Insurer integrates four data centres
News A significant part of the data centre migration project was outsourced to system integrator Migration Solutions, which completed the move over one weekend, ensuring that the impact on Paymentshield's sales was kept to a minimum.silicon.com... [09 Aug 2007]
Allen and Overy extends outsourcing deal
News The two organisations have been working on the migration for around two months so far and Burwell hopes the migration will be complete by the beginning of September. The extended deal will see the law firm migrate its server and storage area... [08 Aug 2007]
GPs to get greater tech choice
News A second set of contract awards is expected to take place in the autumn, with data migration services being brought into the programme. Eight software companies are to be awarded contracts by NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) as part of an initiative... [31 Jul 2007]
AA slashes £2m a year off voice and data costs
News The whole project cost £2m and took nearly a year, though the actual technical implementation and migration onto MPLS only took about five months. The AA started the migration in its less critical business functions such as driving schools before... [17 Jul 2007]
Capgemini wins $40m childrens database deal
News It is expected that the total cost of implementing the system throughout all of the local authorities will cost the government £224m over three years and will involve each of them setting up teams to support data migration, matching and cleansing... [17 Jul 2007]
Fashion retailer gets speedy voice and data network
News The retailer said that the migration to the IP network is complete and it is getting savings from VoIP. Coast, Karen Millen, Oasis, Odille and Whistles owner Mosaic Fashions has commissioned a broadband voice and data network to link its 650 sites. [19 Jun 2007]
Bank CIOs face legacy systems dilemma
News Those organisations that don't have a migration strategy are just building up a bigger stack of cards. CIOs need to demonstrate that unless they migrate from legacy systems to solutions based on open systems architectures, and can provide such... [06 Jun 2007]
Gates: Security challenges to grow despite Vista
News Gates said: "We think this is the milestone where enterprises should start the migration from passwords to smartcards. As more devices connect to the internet, and as people demand access to data from anywhere, the security job will only get bigger... [07 Feb 2007]
£75m police national network deal goes to C&W
News Migration from the existing PNN2 to PNN3 is due to be completed by October 2007. Cable & Wireless (C&W) has won a £75m deal to provide managed voice, data, video, internet and hosting services to all police forces in the UK. [08 Nov 2006]
ID cards scheme under fire again
News If people want to track illegal migration and organised crime in this country you have got to have identity cards. Data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has also hit out again at the secrecy surrounding the ID card scheme... [04 Aug 2006]
Munich's Linux migration was held up by PR stunt
News Software patent campaigner Florian Mueller revealed this week that the City of Munich's decision to stall its Linux migration was the result of a PR stunt by anti-patent campaigners. Mueller, along with a few others, came up with the idea of the... [30 Mar 2006]
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