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Public Sector Service Achieves 100 Per Cent Uptime for Business Critical Messaging Server

whitepaper The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in Scotland provides an independent public-prosecution and deaths-investigation service. COPFS wanted to improve visibility across its 62-site distributed IT infrastructure to ensure maximum...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun

whitepaper NHS Tayside provides primary care and secondary healthcare services to a population of approximately 400,000 in the Tayside region of Scotland. The company's challenge was to accommodate rapid growth of information to minimize risks of catastrophic...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?

News Many readers agreed with the overall winner - the ZX Spectrum - with one reader from Scotland commenting: "My old Spectrum sits in a small display frame to remind me of how simple computers used to be to use and how easy it was to do almost...

Tags: c64, computer, zx spectrum

[30 Apr 2008]

Scottish Water splashes out on tech

News Scottish Water serves around five million people and has approximately 4,000 employees in various locations across Scotland, including a number of engineers and support staff who work remotely. Scottish Water has signed three tech contracts to the...

Tags: transformation, managed services, fujitsu, water

[28 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment Babbly Fish, Scotland The topic that got readers turning to their keyboards this week was silicon.com's latest poll: What was your first home computer? Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Atos Origin

whitepaper Clients include BP, Shell, Philips, L'Oreal, Philip Morris, Fiat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Unilever and Vodafone. The Netherlands-based company Atos Origin is a leading business and technology integrator that designs, builds and operates integrated...

Tags: storage management, sap, high performance, origin

[10 Apr 2008]

Reuters CIO joins Royal Bank of Scotland

News Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Reuters CIO David Lister to help simplify and drive down tech costs. RBS does not use the CIO title for executives and Lister will join as chief architect, reporting in to the bank's group manufacturing unit...

Tags: royal bank of scotland, reuters, david lister

[01 Apr 2008]

Rail travellers lapping up free wi-fi

News The East Coast Main Line runs from London to Scotland and carries more than 17.4 million passengers per year. A free wi-fi service on the East Coast Main Line railway is proving extremely popular with passengers.

Tags: train, railway, wi-fi, wi fi

[05 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment Nick Cole, Scotland What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

Rescue Workers Reduce Costs and Improve Processes With Unified Communications

whitepaper Tayside Fire and Rescue provides emergency services to 400,000 people in Scotland. The organization spends most of its budget on its people and equipment - with only a small percentage available for Information Communications Technology (ICT).

Tags: telephony systems - pbx

[19 Feb 2008]

Why you should be outsourcing your data centres

Comment What if our partners built data centres for us in Alaska, Iceland, Finland, Northern Canada and even Scotland where green power flows freely? The argument for the rest to follow is now compelling, argues Steve Boyle of Sutherland Consulting.

Tags: data centre, outsourcing, green, advances

[04 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…

Comment Mike Alexander, Scotland What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.

Tags: hmrc, police, school, vista

[17 Jan 2008]

Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search

News Scotland Yard will demand HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) foot the record bill for the force's hunt for the missing data discs containing 25 million child benefit records. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: hmrc, child benefit, police, data loss

[14 Jan 2008]

Cisco Systems Case Study: Telewest Broadband

whitepaper Telewest is one of the largest broadband communications and media groups in the United Kingdom, providing multichannel television, telephone, and Internet services to 1.8 million residential customers in England and Scotland.

Tags: switching

[10 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…

Comment Mark Hosey, West central Scotland Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Do your homework Plan to give all school kids broadband access

Tags: plane, broadband, school, us

[10 Jan 2008]

Local gov't tech spend to hit £3bn

News The survey covered 468 local authorities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, along with a number of police forces. According to the Society of IT Management's (Socitm) annual IT Trends survey, spending on local government IT will rise...

Tags: local government, transformation, spending, security

[03 Jan 2008]

Locking down financial security

Comment This year, banks including Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland group gave customers their own chip-and-pin card readers to validate internet transactions. But losses from online fraud continue to rise.

Tags: security, phishing, authentication, banking

[24 Dec 2007]

Top 10 mobile & wireless stories of the year

News First class perks trucked into standard class when National Express won the bid to run the London to Scotland east coast mainline rail service. But it's not all been about Steve Jobs this year. For starters, rumours of a Google mobile resurfaced...

Tags: mobile, wi-fi, wi fi, fi

[13 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?

Comment Nick Cole, Scotland What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.

Tags: vista, data, id cards, hmrc

[13 Dec 2007]

Photos: Satellite mapping through clouds

Photo These maps will be assembled from data beamed by the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite to stations in Italy, Scotland and Sweden. Pictured are the mudflats of Solway in Scotland, with the light blue areas depicting flatter areas and darker...

Tags: satellite, rescue, scotland, credit

[10 Dec 2007]

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