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News Organisations are more interested than ever in outsourcing - though that doesn't mean they aren't still struggling with which core functions they should keep in-house. Indeed, the question of what is core to an organisation has come up throughout... [28 Apr 2005]
Multi-core leads to legacy code questions
News Companies will have to rewrite some of their legacy code if they want to take full advantage of the move to multi-core computing. Software code designed to run on single-core systems will have to be modified to make the most of future multi-core... [07 Apr 2006]
India core to future IT sourcing strategy
News Many large businesses, such as Welsh Water and Reuters, have already made outsourcing to India a core part of their IT strategy and earlier this year Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson told silicon.com half of the company's IT will be done in India... [12 Apr 2007]
Fibernet adds core switches to UK network
News TANet now has 43 points of presence and a total of 15 core switches across the country. Data networking company, Fibernet is adding nine Fore Systems switches to its TANet ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) UK national network. [20 Apr 1999]
Head-to-head: core data grows beyond the reach of outsourcers
News He said: "If your core business is dependent on delivering a service to a bunch of customers where the data has absolutely got to belong to them, it might be the right thing for them - as in CapitalOne's case. [14 Jun 2000]
Gov't slams Fujitsu's "core contract" NHS IT failings
News Health minister Ben Bradshaw said Fujitsu was unable to fulfil vital elements of its "core contract" to provide part of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT). He said Fujitsu "failed to meet key contractual milestones in the core contract... [26 Jun 2008]
VMware set to liberate core server product
News The company sells three core products, VMware Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server, but competition is on the horizon in a market VMware once had to itself. VMware, an EMC subsidiary whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same... [03 Feb 2006]
Threshers outsources core IT in £8m Xansa deal
News High-street off-licence group Threshers is to outsource its core IT systems to Xansa in an £8m five-year deal that will see some services moved to India. The deal with Xansa runs from the end of May this year and replaces an existing outsourcing... [20 Mar 2007]
HP unveils core ecommerce technology
News Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled an ecommerce technology which it claims will be the central core of its e-services campaign. Code-named Fremont, the technology is based on Java and the open-source model. [10 May 1999]
Intel's Core 2 chip gets rave reviews
News Independent chip reviewers across the internet unveiled the results of their tests of Intel's upcoming Core 2 Duo processor for desktops - the chip formerly known as Conroe. Back in February, before Intel had released details about the Core... [17 Jul 2006]
AMD's quad-core chip to launch next month
News AMD is set to officially launch Barcelona in September, six months behind schedule due to the quad-core server processor's "complicated" design, according to CEO Hector Ruiz. The company claims that this will deliver better performance than Intel's... [21 Aug 2007]
StorageTek boss vows to return the company its core
News There weren't any problems with the products we were selling, but we kept on looking for other areas that were away from our core business," Martin admitted. Fundamentally, the company [is going] back to focus on its core strengths which are in... [20 Dec 2000]
Murdoch U-turn puts Net at the core of News Corp
News News Corp will be betting its future on the Internet according to its chief executive, Rupert Murdoch. The announcement marks a major U-turn for the media mogul, who only last January dismissed the Internet as 'overvalued' (http://www.silicon.com... [03 Nov 1999]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network - but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre. [09 May 2008]
CeBIT update: HP's Fiorina focuses on core business to weather stormy waters
News Nevertheless, she painted a gloomy picture for ecommerce development in her keynote speech at the opening of CeBIT this year. I am not harbouring any optimism as far as a speedy recovery of the industry is concerned," explained Fiorina at a press... [22 Mar 2001]
