March 2011

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Packet switch pioneer, Paul Baran, dies aged 84

  US scientist Paul Baran, whose work in the 1960s helped pave the way for the internet, has died aged 84, the BBC is reporting today. Baran, is regarded as the father of packet switching. During his ...  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  MoJ signs £22m shared services deal with Accenture

  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a £22m contract with Accenture to implement shared services across its human resources, payroll, finance and procurement operations for the next five years.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  The EU Procurement Directives should focus on Value for Money

  Thus the combined cost of advertising, adjudication on the part of the purchasing organisation and of tendering on the part of the bidders should be no more than X% of the value of the business on ...  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Businesses spend over £600k a week on data security abroad

  Companies are spending up to £624,000 a week to secure their most sensitive business data abroad, a study has revealed.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Public network could cut 6.4% government IT costs, says Cisco survey

  Government IT figures believe the government could cut 6.4% of its £16.5bn annual spending on information and communications technology (ICT) without affecting front-line services, says network equipment maker Cisco.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  ITC agrees to review patent ruling against Eastman Kodak

  The International Trade Commission (ITC) has announced that it will review an earlier ruling in a patent dispute between Kodak Eastman and mobile handset makers Apple and Research in Motion (RIM).  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Microsoft rolls out Windows Phone 7 OS update

  Microsoft is rolling out its first major software update to its Windows Phone 7 operating system.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Facebook Studio woos advertisers with campaign comparison tool

  Facebook is to launch a site to enable advertisers to view and comment on advertising campaigns on the social networking site.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  European Commission clears Atos bid for Siemens IT

  The European Commission has cleared the proposed €850m acquisition of Siemens' IT Solutions and Service (SIS) by French IT service provider Atos Origin.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Storage is key to getting the most from virtualisation

  A Forrester survey shows that the benefits of server virtualisation aren’t fully realised unless the proper storage technology is in place; plus more news in brief.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  SSD write endurance: Will HP's memristor be the successor to flash?

  As flash vendors try to squeeze ever more cells onto a chip, SSD write endurance falls. We survey the key candidates to succeed flash and find HP in pole position.  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2011 27 Mar'11

  IT Spend as % Turnover - Publishing & Printing

  The larger the Publishing & Printing enterprise the greater the % of turnover is devoted to IT expenditure. Overall the proportion is nearly twice that for the UK as a whole.  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2011 27 Mar'11

  Camino web browser, for Mac open source purists only?

  Camino is an open source web browser for Mac OS X users that requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2011 27 Mar'11

  HDS, NetApp and EMC all agree on big data

  HDS, EMC and NetApp have all picked up on the same ‘Big Data” theme in recent blogs, but is NetApp struggling to ship enough FAS 3200 units to meet demand?  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2011 27 Mar'11

  Legal Aid NSW picks EMC CDP for SAN, DR upgrade

  A data migration project has helped Legal Aid NSW to improve its disaster recovery plan, after it chose to upgrade its existing EMC CLARiiON fleet to newer models from the same range and add continuous data protection software.  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2011 27 Mar'11

  Five virtualisation management issues CIOS must manage

  Virtualisation is powerful and creates welcome efficiencies and savings, but can also introduce some new IT management challenges. We explain five of them – and how to meet the challenge and create smarter virtual infrastructure – in this tip.  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2011 26 Mar'11

  The voodoo economics of internet addresses

  Microsoft is prepared to pay $11.25 for each of 666,000-odd IPv4 internet addresses,  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2011 25 Mar'11

  When Elephants Dance - dive under the table

  The concept of true agility, as exemplified by the organisation (larger than most government departments) whose chief executive vetoed all projects with a payback beyond the next quarter, is missing.  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2011 25 Mar'11

  Cumbria issues £121m tender for broadband and managed IT contracts

  Cumbria County Council has issued a tender for two projects worth £121m over five years  Continue Reading

• March 25, 2011 25 Mar'11

  Police switch to Sprint ii for IT procurement

  Police forces in England and Wales are having to switch IT procurement from the Buying Solutions' CITHS framework to the SPRINT ii agreement.  Continue Reading