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Thursday, January 26, 2012
UK’s Biggest Pub & Restaurant Operator Goes Cloud
The company that owns Harvester, O’Neills and Toby Carvery is rolling out cloud computing across the whole group. Mitchells & Butlers, the largest restaurant and pub operator in the UK, has partnered with Fujitsu to extend networked SaaS to its 1,600 branches.
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Mushroom Player Goes For ITO Deal
Monaghan Mushrooms has signed a two-year deal with Belfast IT and business process outsourcing firm Equiniti ICS. The contract concerns off-shore software development support and will be delivered from centres in Northern Ireland and India. Outsourcing is expected to play a major part in the growth of the Irish mushroom producer.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Government CIO set to retire
UK government CIO Joe Harley will retire in March 2012, it was announced yesterday.
This follows the news that his deputy, Bill McCluggage will leave to join IT supplier EMC later this year.
Harley was formerly IT chief at ICI Paints.
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High Street Banks Go To Cyber War With FSA
The FSA is launching cyber attacks today, in a bid to test out the hardiness of 87 firms’ business continuity plans, prior to the Olympics.
The firms – including high-street banks Barclays, LloydsTSB and HSBS – have volunteered for the scheme. The attacks will replicate widespread technical disruptions, such as cutting off internet access and phone lines, and failures among cash machine networks.
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CSC Snap up £500m BAE Contract Extension
Defence giant BAE Systems has inked a 5-year £511m ($800m) deal with its long term partner CSC, that covers a full range of IT services such as support BAE's service desk, physical and virtual servers, mainframe, storage and networking. The deal also features project work and application support.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Capgemini & Deutsche Telekom sign five-year BI framework deal
Deutsche Telekom and Capgemini have signed a five year business intelligence (BI) sourcing framework agreement.
The contract is between Deutsche Telekom AG – a new company merging two business units, T-Home and T-Mobile - and Capgemini Deutschland GmbH. It aims to consolidate the business processes and IT systems of both.
Capgemini global head of Business Information Management Paul Nannetti said: "Our investments and focus on developing a differentiated approach to the delivery of BI programs, combining consulting, technology and a scalable India centric delivery platform, have positioned Capgemini as a global leader in the provision of BI transformation services.”
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A third of SMEs to adopt Cloud in the next 12 months
Nearly in 3 SMEs plan to use cloud computing in the next year, according to a survey by IT industry non-profit trade association CompTIA.
400 IT and business professionals in UK were surveyed. 18% of companies were currently using cloud, 93% are satisfied with the result. Other technologies with the highest planned adoption rates were mobile solutions (27 per cent) and social media (26 per cent).
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Friday, September 09, 2011
Cloud is all hype, says survey
In the SWC Technology Partners survey, just 3.7% of respondents said that their company has adopted a cloud solution for the whole company. 54.2% of respondents indicate that their company is not pursuing any cloud computing initiative. Privacy and security (20.9%) are stated to be the of greatest concern when considering cloud, followed by cost (9.8%).
Elliott Baretz, vice president of SWC, said: "The technology industry can be rife with hype. Most reasons for eschewing the cloud have nothing to do with technology. Privacy and compliance and legal issues are what are keeping businesses on the sidelines."
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Keeping Tabs On The Competition
A new SaaS product has been launched to monitor minor, but important changes to websites i.e. terms and conditions, white papers and privacy policies. This is allowing companies unprecedented awareness of what’s being said on the websites of clients, competitors, industry and regulatory bodies.
Joel Halbert, co-founder of WebAlertPro said: “WebAlertPro automatically monitors websites and web pages, identifying changes made to their content. Our beta trial has shown particular enthusiasm for the product from marketeers and product managers who relish receiving a single daily email alerting them to the activities of their competitors.”
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Thorntons in line from £2m savings from outsourcing
UK chocolate brand Thorntons has stated that outsourcing its IT and other activates will help deliver an annual cost saving of £2 million.
“This, together with the ongoing benefits of our procurement review and the recent restructuring of our head office cost base, should deliver a full-year benefit of £2 million that will flow through in full in the 2012/13 financial year,” said a Thorntons spokesperson.
HP provides Thorntons end-to-end management and support for IT, networking and applications.
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