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IT efficiency and sustainability

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  TfL wastes millions on telecoms, says IIPAG watchdog

  Watchdog IIPAG criticises Transport for London (TfL) for its inefficient and fragmented telecoms contracts

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships

  Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

  Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

  The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?

• May 29, 2014 29 May'14

  BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

  British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency

  Greenpeace's new report on datacentre energy efficiency lauds efforts of some tech giants while singles out others for their lack of commitment to green energy

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Thames Water pilots smart analytics with Accenture

  Thames Water is six months into an 18 month pilot with Accenture Smart Grid to pilot real time monitoring to deliver an improved service

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era

  IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  BBC DMI row continues as Linwood defends “working technology”

  Former BBC CTO John Linwood was scrutinised by a public accounts committee yesterday during a hearing about the failed BBC Digital Media Initiative

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  How web giants are making datacentres lean and green

  Facebook and eBay infrastructure chiefs outline their efficiency strategies at DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in London

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Call for graduates to apply for John Lewis technology scheme

  Retailer John Lewis is encouraging university-leavers to apply for positions in its graduate development scheme

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Interview: Professor Ian Bitterlin, the Green Grid

  Green Grid's Chair Ian Bitterlin discusses datacentre energy efficiency, role of DCIM tools and whether UK and EU CIOs are doing enough for datacentre efficiency

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Case study: Coca-Cola embarks on green IT strategy

  Coca-Cola is aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of its IT. Kevin Sirjuesingh, director of IT strategic initiatives, discusses the plan

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Tesco takes a multi-channel approach to customer experience

  Tesco has been using an array of Oracle technology, including its customer experience (CX) portfolio to turn the company in a multi-channel retailer

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Businesses need to have constant digital conversations with the CIO, says PwC

  Companies which have strong digital conversations across their business are more likely to be successful in sales, innovation and growth

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• September 11, 2013 11 Sep'13

  £480bn of government revenue depends on "risky" legacy IT

  Almost £480bn of the UK government’s revenues are dependent on legacy IT systems that “could present a very significant risk”

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Bet365 improves latency and peering by updating network infrastructure

  Online gambling site Bet365 upgraded its network and improved its latency to deliver a fast, smooth and reliable experience to its customers

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Enterprises spend more on third-party datacentres than in-house ones: Uptime survey

  Uptime Institute’s annual datacentre industry survey reveals shift in IT spend away from enterprise-owned datacentres to outsourced options

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit

  With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification

  Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  European banking firm UniCredit to introduce cloud in its datacentres

  European banking firm UniCredit has signed a multi-billion dollar deal with IBM to bring cloud into its datacentres

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Hidden cost of cloud computing is CIOs’ biggest concern

  A study into attitudes and concerns relating to cloud computing has revealed that 80% of CIOs are concerned about its hidden costs

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  How BP made its IT future-ready with a hybrid cloud infrastructure

  BP bridged its cloud gap with a cautious and calculated approach using a mix of private cloud, public cloud and in-house IT infrastructure

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Frimley Park NHS deploys VDI for efficiency and BYOD

  When the NHS trust came under pressure to make its IT budget go further, it opted to deploy VDI in its A&E department

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Lloyds customer complaints plummet after automating manual processes

  Lloyds is claiming dramatic improvements in the quality of its customer service after automating manual banking processes

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management

  ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Domino’s Pizza plans to move web services to the cloud

  After using cloud for testing and development apps, Domino’s Pizza is now looking to move its web services to the cloud

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  Home Office needs to boost capability to fix UKBA IT

  The Home Office must improve its internal capability to fix the siloed IT systems behind the soon-to-be-scrapped UK Border Agency

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Universal Credit not at odds with agile, says former chief

  Former programme director of Universal Credit, Malcolm Whitehouse, has denied the mega-project is at odds with agile development

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• December 20, 2012 20 Dec'12

  Government to cut large frameworks following procurement review

  Government is to put an end to large ICT frameworks, following a review into the efficacy of procurement practices for SMEs

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Government IT reformers criticise IT leadership shake-up

  Government IT reformers have criticised plans to give procurement chief Bill Crothers a more prominent role in the IT leadership team

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  HMRC slammed for 'undue complacency' on RTI systems

  Report labels HMRC “unduly complacent” about the roll-out of the Real Time Information (RTI) system crucial to the Universal Credit programme

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  G-Cloud ramps up for next generation of government IT procurements

  The G-Cloud has a new framework and calls for it to become a blueprint for all government IT procurement, but what challenges lie ahead?

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Cloud HR pivotal to Direct Line share offering

  Cloud HR proved pivotal to insurance group Direct Line separating from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) before it launched on the stock market

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games

  As the job of a lifetime nears its end, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his Olympic experience

• October 23, 2012 23 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gavin Walker chief information officer at NATS

  Gavin Walker, CIO of NATS, talks about how a vendor-neutral approach is key to successful IT, and why huge outsourcing contracts are the enemy

• October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12

  RBS spends £80m to link its multiple mainframes better

  The Royal Bank of Scotland will dedicate £80m of its massive IT budget to eliminate problems caused by its mainframe infrastructure

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Cabinet Office blacklists Fujitsu from government IT contract tenders

  The Cabinet Office has banned Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for public sector IT contracts as they constitute too high a risk

• September 04, 2012 04 Sep'12

  UK Border Agency ordered to crack down on bogus student visas

  The UKBA must crack down on bogus student visas ahead of the roll-out of its troubled e-Borders program, MPs have urged

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  CIO interview: Sally Howes, National Audit Office

  Sally Howes, CIO at the National Audit Office, talks about how the NAO hopes to perform more IT health checks and fewer project post mortems

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  Amazon to open London development centre

  Amazon today announced a new hub in central London to focus on the development of digital media products

• July 16, 2012 16 Jul'12

  Home Office creates private police ICT company

  The Home Office has created a private firm to manage police IT after the the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) was abolished

• July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12

  Whitehall could save £33bn with big data analytics, says Policy Exchange

  Government could save £33bn a year applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a report from the Policy Exchange

• May 16, 2012 16 May'12

  CIO interview: Cathryn Riley, CIO, Aviva

  It's been a tough time for Aviva with CEO Andrew Moss forced to step down in a shareholder revolt. But for CIO Cathryn Riley, it’s business as usual.

• April 18, 2012 18 Apr'12

  Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services

  Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly.

• March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12

  Danone uses SAP to reduce carbon footprint

  Heath food maker Danone has used SAP to reduce its carbon footprint by 22%.

• March 07, 2012 07 Mar'12

  Systems integrators 'charge more in paperwork than SMEs do in delivery’

  A systems integrator asked for more money from the government for an IT product proposal than an SME was able to deliver the actual service for.

• February 08, 2012 08 Feb'12

  CIO interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury’s IT chief talks about why in-house IT works better than outsourcing and how to double revenue without doubling IT spend.