The datacentre is the heart of the organisation. The network provides the arteries and the veins that distribute vital information to the various parts of the corporate body, but it is the datacentre that keeps pumping it out. Keeping the heart in the best of health is critical to your long term survival, a difficult task with the stresses and additional burdens of the modern business environment.
Marks & Spencer has consolidated application development services on its legacy applications with India-based outsource supplier Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Wholesale electricity transaction processing company, Elexon has signed a £40m, five-year outsourcing deal with Logica, which is expected to pass on operational cost savings to the retail electricity industry.
Penetration testing now has its own not-for-profit standards-based accreditation organisation in Crest, the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers. David King, Head of Information and Risk Management at Aviva talks about the benefits Crest will bring to the industry.
Health officials and Fujitsu have returned to the negotiating table after talks had stalled over a renegotiation of parts of the supplier's £896m contract for installing Cerner's Millennium systems in the south of England.