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Building Society Eliminates Potential Risk to Business Continuity With Dell Virtualization Solution
White Paper To protect business continuity and sensitive data, Chelsea Building Society needed to migrate legacy software onto a robust hardware platform. This infrastructure had to integrate with an existing... [02 Oct 2009]
Spanish Building Society Reduces Energy Consumption on Desktops by 80 Per Cent With Dell
White Paper To maintain its leading position, Spanish building society La Caja de Canarias wanted to improve performance, management effectiveness, and energy efficiency across the desktop estate. Through Dell... [02 Oct 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment Green IT' is now a recognised aspect of working and buying in the sector, illustrated by the fact the British Computing Society is in the process of launching its Green IT Qualification. However with green issues... [10 Sep 2009]
U.K. Building Society Cuts Power Consumption by 75 Per Cent With Virtualised Servers
White Paper Britannia Building Society has served the interests of its members for more than 150 years. By deploying the Windows Server 2008 operating system with its integrated Hyper-V virtualisation technology,... [25 Jul 2009]
On a new Voyager, tackling fraud and the intellectual challenge
Comment The financial sector is facing one of the toughest periods in its history and as IT director of Nationwide, the UK's biggest building society, Peter Stafford has been juggling the demands of significant... [06 Jul 2009]
Newcastle Permanent Accelerates Transaction Processing
White Paper As a complete retail financial services organization, Newcastle Permanent Building Society provides a genuine alternative to traditional banks for meeting the day-to-day needs of personal and business... [12 Jun 2009]
Real-world business intelligence
Comment Like so many financial services companies, UK building society Bradford & Bingley has been making headlines recently. How can business intelligence help your organisation? Andrew Donoghue speaks to... [05 Jun 2009]
Myron Hrycyk
CIO Profile Hrycyk is a member of the British Computer Society and chair of CIO Connect's advisory board, an IT leaders' networking organisation. At Severn Trent, he is executive sponsor of the company's SAP/ERP business... [03 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment The rule of process over common sense now seems to be the established norm everywhere and at all levels of society. Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via 3G during the same journey [28 May 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News Speaking at the British Computer Society HC2009 event in Harrogate today, Connelly said the DoH would focus its efforts on hospitals and increasing the speed at which they are given new patient administration systems... [28 Apr 2009]
Cambridge Building Society Deploys DeviceLock to Control USB Devices
White Paper As with every financial institution, Cambridge Building Society is subject to stringent security regulations. The IT team at Cambridge Building Society undertook a... [10 Mar 2009]
IronPort Provides Analysis and Management to Enforce Organizational Policies for a Leading Financial Institution
White Paper EBS Building Society is one of Ireland's most respected financial organizations. However, in past few years, the proliferation of illicit email-borne images posed a serious threat to its hard-earned... [21 Feb 2009]
Security Blundered Brits: Could We Learn From the US?
White Paper Never a day goes by when one doesn't hear about another security blunder with highly confidential information being lost not only by Government departments but also by other large corporations including the DVA, DVLA, HMRC, the Leeds... [12 Feb 2009]
Nationwide outsources cheque processing
News Nationwide Building Society has signed a business process outsourcing (BPO) deal with Unisys to take on its cheque processing function. According to Nationwide's group operations director, David Rigney,... [11 Feb 2009]
Building society Principality overhauls IT
News Welsh building society Principality has used a major telecoms systems upgrade to better cope with an influx of new savers. The building society completed a migration of... [10 Feb 2009]