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News Three years ago, Taylor said, an Office of Government Commerce study reached the same conclusion: a lot of government departments had signed up for an open-source project, only to leave when they found they were locked in.
[15 May 2008]
News Richard Holway, of Farnham Consulting, warned the lack of people to fill entry-level jobs in technology threatens employers' ability to train up the next generation of project managers on the job in the UK.
[14 May 2008]
News Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in payments processing costs. Whitbread information systems project manager, Steven Deakin, said in a statement: "Deployment of the...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper The company's challenge was to provide cost-effective storage for data growing at more than 35% per year to improve storage utilization and management. As a follow-on project, Sun helped the customer move its data center from Houston to Dallas...
[06 May 2008]
News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector The initial driver of this part of the project is to...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Sun started open-sourcing Java at the end of 2006 but only 96 per cent of Java was able to be made available to the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) project at the time. The process of clearing encumbrances is complex, and has involved close...
[28 Apr 2008]
whitepaper By using Meeting Workspace, Elsevier will significantly reduce travel and project expenses by nearly U.S.per year. With its new solution, Elsevier is on track to improve international collaboration while reducing project cycle times.
[23 Apr 2008]
News Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by $60bn per year, according to research.
[22 Apr 2008]
News Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable data centre project but has admitted the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 per cent per year. In a statement announcing the Frankfurt project...
[14 Apr 2008]
Comment The most in-demand skills are project managers and "business-savvy technologists". Despite that, more than half (59 per cent) of CIOs said they are more optimistic about the year ahead than they were last year.
[04 Apr 2008]
News The level of investment for the project is in the five-figure region and has taken around two years to reach fruition, prompted by moving the distribution centre from the retailer's HQ in Clapham, London to Leicester.silicon.com Financial Services
[02 Apr 2008]
Comment At RIM, Eggberry is involved with a company initiative to promote the role of UK women in technology via its annual BlackBerry Women & Technology Awards - which she describes as a "year-long project" to highlight the part women play in the tech...
[18 Mar 2008]
News The technology is expected to reduce energy costs by 13.4 per cent and save approximately 7,470 tonnes of CO2 per year. Elaine Heyworth, head of environmental management for Barclays retail and commercial banking, told silicon.com: "When we started...
[13 Mar 2008]
News Heathrow to invest in more iris scanning machines as it rolls out its Project Iris trusted-traveller pilot project to speed passengers' journeys through immigration control. Tomorrow the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills will...
[12 Mar 2008]
Comment Another is the possibility of contractors taking cost or resource out of the project to increase their profit margins or to service other customers. While it might be tempting to put the contract in the bottom drawer and forget about it...
[12 Mar 2008]
whitepaper With some 700 Wintel servers, Essent's primary data center was already large and growing by approximately 100 servers per year. By enabling many different workload movement activities, PlateSpin PowerRecon and PowerConvert proved that they would be...
[04 Mar 2008]
News The writedown cast a shadow over the bank's 10 per cent increase in pre-tax profit for the last year to $24.2bn. This includes the 'One HSBC' project to deliver a standard suite of group systems. HSBC will continue to increase investment in...
[04 Mar 2008]
News Guardian News & Media (GNM), the proprietor of The Guardian and The Observer is about to complete an 18-month project to revamp its website offering, costing up to £15m. The project was assisted by Thoughtworks, a consultancy specialising in 'agile...
[29 Feb 2008]
News Adrian Hazeldine, IT director at Swinton Group said the main aim of the project is to answer more calls more efficiently and improve service for the company's two million policy holders. Around 3,000 advisors are already benefiting from the...
[21 Feb 2008]
whitepaper This long-anticipated evolution reflects the fact that companies, on average, spend more than $9,000 per employee, per year on IT investments. Some companies are spending upwards of $22,000 per employee each year on technology.
[14 Feb 2008]
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