The 2006 Winter Olympics kicks off in Turin, Italy later this week - the culmination of two years' careful preparation. We look at the IT behind the games.
International law firm Allen & Overy has reached the midway point in a £4.5m project to link its datacentre and global locations via a state-of-the-art Cisco metropolitan area network.
The British Library is on a mission to digitise its immense collection of books and manuscripts. It is a challenge of mind-boggling proportions, as Helen Beckett discovered
Newcastle Building Society has used its work to comply with a Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) software licensing audit as a stepping stone to achieving BS7799 information security certification.
The Forestry Commission, the government department responsible for managing the UK's woodlands, has dramatically cut its costs and improved its VAT recovery seven-fold by replacing its manual expenses system with expenses management software.
Henkel, a manufacturing company whose brands include Persil, is rolling out electronic recruitment software from Jobpartners across Europe in a move designed to shorten the time it takes to hire staff and reduce recruitment costs.
Financial services company Standard Life is rolling out a virtual private network that will allow 800 staff to access critical business applications securely from any location.
Helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland has installed a network comprising three Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprises platforms running over a fibre infrastructure in a bid to ensure it does not lose more than a third of its network at any one time.
Network Rail's five-year business transformation plan is placing IT at the heart of the business. Will Hadfield reports on how the technical and managerial challenges are being met