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Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News The town was one of three in the running to be first to get H2O's full fibre treatment, along with Dundee and Northampton. The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the seaside resort of Bournemouth, better known for ice-cream...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

VirtualizeIT Designs and Implements a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Virtual Infrastructure for Accident and Emergency Command & Control

whitepaper Vines visited VirtualizeIT in Northampton where he attended a technology preview of both solutions. Two Shire Ambulance NHS Trust was formed in 1993, following the merger of the Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire ambulance services.

Tags: disaster recovery

[04 Mar 2008]

Photos: Fibre in the sewers to speed up UK cities

Photo Either Bournemouth, Dundee or Northampton will be chosen as the first city to get H2O's fibre treatment. UK company H2O Networks has announced plans to bring superfast broadband - offering speeds of up to 100Mbps - to UK cities by laying fibre...

Tags: fibre, broadband, sewer, credit

[25 Jan 2008]

Does superfast broadband Britain stink of sewage?

News The first city to get the subterranean fibre treatment will be either Bournemouth, Dundee or Northampton - a decision on which city will be first is due to be announced by the end of April - though all three will be hooked up by H20 Networks...

Tags: sewer, speed, broadband, fibre

[23 Jan 2008]

Rugby club scores with automated backup

Case Study Northampton Saints Rugby Football Club, winners of the Heineken European Cup in 2000 and former home of England 2003 World Cup Winners Ben Cohen and Matt Dawson, suffered a major data loss three years ago that affected the running of the club.

Tags: rugby, back-up, asigra, data

[21 Jan 2008]

Which cities top the wealth league?

News Cities with levels of productivity above the average - and growing knowledge economies in both public and private sectors - include Bristol, Leeds and Manchester, as well as Derby, Ipswich and Northampton.

Tags: earnings, knowledge economy, london, workers

[07 Jan 2008]

TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet

Case Study For disaster recovery, the company installed replica servers at its data centre in Birmingham, which mirror those at its Northampton HQ. TalkTalk Direct has upgraded its enterprise server infrastructure, speeding up bill processing and cutting...

Tags: carbon, speed, energy, fujitsu siemens

[11 Oct 2007]

High-tech security beats thieves for logistics firm

News Myron Hrycyk, UK CIO at Northampton-based NYK Logistics, said the worlds of physical security and IT are increasingly crossing over as the technology becomes more sophisticated. High-tech security measures such as number plate recognition are being...

Tags: nyk logistics, myron hrycyk

[21 Mar 2007]

Be extends next-gen fat pipes to third of Blighty

News Be's ADSL2+ network now covers the following locations: Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry, Croydon, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hemel Hempstead, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Northampton...

Tags: be, adsl2+

[16 Feb 2007]

Local Authority Gets Wired for Improved Network Performance

whitepaper When Northampton Borough Council realised that the performance of its network was being threatened by a legacy cabling infrastructure, it embarked on a major upgrade. The project, which was completed with help from Computacenter, has delivered a...

Tags: disaster recovery, council, initiatives, act

[10 Aug 2006]

Computacenter Case Study: Nationwide Building Society

whitepaper Towards the end of 1996 the Society decided to refresh its existing server architecture that operates the NT-based infrastructure of its head office operations in Swindon and Northampton. Not surprisingly for a leading financial institution, the...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, society, nationwide, computacenter

[10 Aug 2006]

BT installs cash machines in phone boxes

News Nationwide Building Society has joined forces with BT to put ATMs in five phone kiosks in Northampton, Slough and Swindon (where Nationwide's HQ is located). Phone kiosks could soon be a point of call for people wanting to withdraw money from the...

Tags: bt

[21 Jul 2006]

Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards

Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards

News Shortly before Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup at Wembley 40 years ago, a small team of people in a converted Northampton shoe factory realised they were about to change the way people shop in the UK - with the credit card.

Tags: china

[04 Jul 2006]

Photos: Inside Ricoh's 'Green Centre'

Photos: Inside Ricoh's 'Green Centre'

Photo Ricoh's Green Centre near Wellingborough in Northampton is a 43,000 square foot facility dedicated to processing IT kit, principally copiers, and either returning them back into the field as a reconditioned unit or stripping them of all components...

Tags: reuse, green centre, ricoh, recycling

[16 Mar 2006]

Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?

Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?

News Talking of the required move towards greater 'green thinking' in the tech industry, Paul Kennard, assistant general manager at Ricoh's Green Centre, near Northampton, says: "There are certainly a lot of people out there who are doing this because...

Tags: ricoh, green, environmentalism

[16 Mar 2006]

Salesforce.com goes offline again and again

News Bill Bither, a Salesforce customer in Northampton, Massachusetts, didn't think Monday's outage was so minor either. Several disgruntled Salesforce.com customers took their complaints to the blogosphere this week after enduring a series of recent...

Tags: marc benioff, salesforce.com, salesforce

[01 Feb 2006]

Nationwide, the World's Largest Building Society, Turned to Prime Business Solutions for Help With Its Wireless LAN and Video Conferencing Over IP

whitepaper With headquarters in Swindon and a second major administrative centre at Northampton, Nationwide offers a broad range of retail financial services. Nationwide had started looking at wireless LAN in 1999, testing the technology in a number of...

Tags: lan, wireless lan, experts, hand

[17 Jan 2006]

Cooking With Gas: Pitney Bowes Insertion Integrity at British Gas

whitepaper Both the Manchester and Northampton sites are equipped with six 9 Series Pitney Bowes inserters, and with Pitney Bowes' Direct Connect processing software. British Gas fulfills its print and distribution commitments from one 'virtual' center...

Tags: connect, sites, gas, bowes

[10 Jun 2005]

Northampton, Kettering and Wellingborough District Council's - Procurement Joint Working Initiative

whitepaper In the report, Towards a National Strategy for Local Government Procurement, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and Local Government Association (LGA) - in response to the Byatt Review - recommended that all county and unitary...

Tags: procurement and sourcing, procurement, capacity, local government

[28 Apr 2005]

Nationwide reaffirms 'anti-offshoring' stance

Nationwide reaffirms 'anti-offshoring' stance

News To back that up, Nationwide has today opened its new 180-person call centre in Sheffield with the help of a £200,000 government grant bringing the number of staff at existing UK call centres in Swindon, Swansea and Northampton to 900.

[02 Dec 2004]

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