March 2010

HP workers at the DWP to strike for four days

HP workers at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the MoD and General Motors will be on strike for four more days in two 48 hour stoppages.

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Another IT supplier strike threatens customer continuity

Staff at HP working at organisations, including the Department of Work and Pensions, are going to strike for four days. These strikes will be split into two separate 48 hour walk outs.This is ...  Continue Reading

Mozilla releases Firefox update early to fix vulnerabilities

Mozilla has released the latest version of its Firefox web browser ahead of schedule because of security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions.  Continue Reading

Virtual farmer sacked for milking his cows

he was discovered milking a virtual cow  Continue Reading

IBM hit with another European antitrust complaint

A French company has filed a complaint with European competition authorities, accusing IBM of allowing customers to run IBM mainframe operating systems only...

Foreign workers in the UK could be in for a pay rise

A campaigner against abuses of the Intra Company Transfer scheme has provided me with some comment about some of the changes the government recently introduced to prevent abuse.He outlines that the ...  Continue Reading

Exiled in limbo after the chip on his ID Card/Passport failed.

That's an interesting question, particularly given that I'm sure I've seen some experimental data that says these systems have a half life no longer (and maybe shorter) than the validity period of ...  Continue Reading

Budget 2010 - today's coverage and my first phlog

Budget 2010 - today's coverage and my first phlog  Continue Reading

Google partners start to sever ties in China

Google partners in China have begun severing ties with internet firm since it announced it was redirecting Chinese language searches through Hong Kong to bypass mainland censorship rules.  Continue Reading

CompTIA certification helps businesses meet CRC rules

Industry group CompTIA has developed a training and certification programme to help organisations comply with the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme, which comes into force on 1 April 2010.  Continue Reading

IT and telecoms forecast to become UK's most important economic sectors

The computing and telecoms sectors will be the UK's most significant industries in the future, a report on the health of the country's skills market has predicted.  Continue Reading

Will health IT programme in US follow the NPfIT?

Health Care Renewal predicts that the National Program for Healthcare IT in the US is likely, in 2015, to resemble the National Programme for IT in the NHS in 2010.  Continue Reading

Storage roundup: Telco uses HP LeftHand for virtual server environment

Telco chooses HP LeftHand P4000 virtual SANs; Maxell ships LTO Ultrium 5; NetApp expands FCoE, Data Centre Bridging product offerings; Overland SAN gets VMware tick; and more.  Continue Reading

Data Protection Act of 1998 explained: Protecting personal data

Starting in April 2010, Data Protection Act violations will come with hefty consequences. Learn how to manage DPA compliance by protecting personal data.  Continue Reading

RCOM's IT plan from Reliance Tech Services' new CIO

Alpna Doshi, the recently-appointed CIO of Reliance Tech Services, is busy drawing up new IT plans for Reliance Communications (RCOM). Reliance Tech Services (RTS) is the IT wing of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), and provides IT consultancy...  Continue Reading

Storage array supplier shakeout could be sparked by virtualisation and the cloud

Storage array suppliers could face a market shakeout as server virtualisation and the cloud push storage intelligence to different parts of the data centre stack.  Continue Reading

Gartner: Storage deserves more attention than servers

Organisations need to think about storage before they consider other infrastructure, Gartner's Matthew Boon has told the firm's Infrastructure, Operations and Data Centre Summit.  Continue Reading