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News Police and security services made the majority of the requests for billing information and other details but 1,707 of them came from local councils. Public bodies made 519,260 requests to phone and internet service providers under the Regulation of... [23 Jul 2008]
Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News Kent County Council has struck a four-year deal with US outsourcing provider Unisys to provide a shared wide area network built on a high-speed Cisco backbone to boost public services. Paul Carter, leader of Kent County Council said in a statement... [22 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment My company uses professional services to clean and enhance customer data, identifying attributes such as income, propensity to purchase certain products, specific spending habits and even personal demographics. [21 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Another fan of open source, Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at financial services company Voca pointed out the huge legacy of innovation that has come about through the open source approach. If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large... [21 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News Bernadette Kenny, director general of personal tax at HMRC, said in a statement: "Ensuring that our customers are properly served by our PAYE services is of paramount importance to us but we will not go ahead with implementing the new system until... [21 Jul 2008]
Heuristics for Scheduling Virtual Machines for Improving QoS in Public Computing Utilities
White Paper Computing utilities based on Virtual Machines (VMs) migrating among distributed computing resources are becoming increasingly practical and emerging as a viable infrastructure for outsourcing computer services. [18 Jul 2008]
WDM and SDM in Future Optical Networks
White Paper Increasing bandwidth demands, caused by growing numbers of users, increasing popularity of the Internet, multi-media services, and higher demands on quality, urge the development of ever faster networks. [18 Jul 2008]
Rapid Response Visa and Getronics Deliver Efficiency With CARE
White Paper Visa EU deployed Getronics for the project as its proven track record in the development of solutions for the financial services sector. In order to be competitive themselves, the financial institutions must be able to provide fast, effortless... [18 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News The way we use and protect information affects our ability to deliver better public services, opportunities for the most disadvantaged, improved protection from crime and terrorism and sustained economic well being. [17 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News It has been in development since 2005 and is supplied by Logica and Northgate Public Services. The £7.2m secure web-based application pulls information together from police, CPS and court computer systems to chart defendants' progress.silicon.com... [17 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News The pledge comes on the back of the Review of Public Services Industry by economist Dr DeAnne Julius. The review found that outsourced public services' contribution to the UK economy has grown 130 per cent since 1995, to £79bn, and that the UK... [11 Jul 2008]
HP and Cisco Help St. Olavs Hospital Achieve "All Over IP, IP All Over"
White Paper The Hospital wanted converged network to facilitate better mobility, increased flexibility, and enhanced security that would lead to new treatment methods, better quality of care, and improved services to the hospital's patients and to the public. [11 Jul 2008]
Stellar Materials, Inc.: Bringing Hosted SharePoint and Exchange Together
White Paper Frontpages managed all configuration services, plus data migration from Stellar's previous SharePoint site. As a part of day-to-day business, Stellar Materials Incorporated was becoming increasingly dependent on their SharePoint site, as both a... [11 Jul 2008]
Remote VPN Client Load Balancing on ASA 5500 Configuration Example
White Paper For example, if the Cisco ASA that services the public IP address fails, another ASA in the cluster assumes the public IP address. Load-balancing ensures that the public IP address is highly available to users. [10 Jul 2008]
Performance Impact of Data Compression on Virtual Private Network Transactions (Extended Version)
White Paper Using cryptographic algorithms and protocols, VPNs provide security services such as confidentiality, host authentication and data integrity. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) allow two or more parties to communicate securely over a public network. [10 Jul 2008]
