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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. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca [21 Jul 2008]
Secure High-Volume Transaction Processing in a Flexible, Innovative Infrastructure
White Paper Provider of payment services for banks and corporates, Voca wanted to replace existing, ultra-high processing payments engine with one offering limitless reliability, security, scalability, and transaction processing power. [31 May 2008]
Cost-Effective Delivery and Easy Management of Applications Across Multi-Site Operations
White Paper Voca wanted to streamline access and deployment of applications across Voca's multi-site business locations. As a solution the company implemented Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization. This resulted in virtualized 300 applications and cut... [29 Feb 2008]
Summer slowdown bad for IT projects
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at payments body Voca, said: "With the general slowdown, it is actually a time when we can get things done with fewer distractions - when we aren't on holiday too of course. [03 Aug 2007]
VocaLink is born
News VocaLink - the payments processing organisation formed by the merger of Voca and Link - has officially launched and is planning a push into Europe. The new company has developed a European-wide payments processing system which will come on stream... [02 Jul 2007]
Remote and mobile working tech "essential"
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at Voca, said: "We are augmenting laptop and BlackBerry technology with highly secure access to desktops from anywhere with an internet connection via Citrix sessions. [18 May 2007]
Businesses tackle laptop theft data security risks
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at payments body Voca, said: "It's mandatory for all our laptops to have the hard disk encrypted. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca Half of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they are using... [15 May 2007]
India core to future IT sourcing strategy
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca 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... [12 Apr 2007]
Database glitch delays salary payments
News The problem occurred when Voca's Bacs database suffered a glitch on Wednesday which caused it to slow down. Up to 400,000 workers have not received their salaries as usual today following a problem with the UK's payment processing system. [30 Mar 2007]
CIO Jury: Is VoIP secure enough for business?
News Nick Masterson-Jones, director of IT, Voca Voice over IP is secure and reliable enough for businesses to use in the corporate environment, according to UK IT bosses. While the benefits of VoIP are clear, in terms of cheaper calls and extra... [16 Mar 2007]
Voca finds the missing Link
News Voca and Link intend to merge to form one of Europe's largest payment processing organisations. The combined company will be known as VocaLink - and will see payment processing, through Voca, added to ATM services and real-time payments, through Link. [06 Mar 2007]
CIO Jury: Google is "real value" for business users
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca The reaction is in response to the launch this week of enterprise versions of Google's online software. The Google Apps Premier Edition will cost $50 per year for every end-user and offers email, word... [22 Feb 2007]
Leader: The CIO Agenda for 2007
Leader Thanks to those who gave their time to take part in this year's CIO Agenda survey, including: Russell Altendorff, IT director, London Business School; Mark Beattie, head of IT, LondonWaste; Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director, Hachette Filipacchi UK... [17 Jan 2007]
CIO Jury: Data overload drowning businesses
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at Voca, agreed. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at Voca What do CIOs think? Is Apple irrelevant to businesses? Is anyone planning to upgrade to Windows Vista? Click here to see more CIO Jury results. [23 Nov 2006]
CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at Voca, said: "My view is that replacing one load of complexity on the desktop with another, albeit open source, isn't the way to go. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca [08 Nov 2006]
