A joint venture initiative between the Newham Borough Council and IT service provider Steria is to be wound up, the borough’s IT chief has confirmed.
Archive for September, 2007
Green IT still low on CIO agenda, finds EIU study
Over a third of IT executives (42%) say their firm does not monitor its IT-related energy spending and a further 9% don
’t know if their firm monitors this, according to a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
British Airways boosts monitoring of critical systems
British Airways has reached the halfway point in a project to roll out a monitoring system for its storage area network, which is growing at about 15% a year and becoming more complex.
Dell set to go carbon neutral
Dell plans to make its global operations carbon neutral by the end of 2008, earlier than previously thought.
Public sector CIOs urged to tighten up on green IT
Public sector CIOs are being urged to take a leadership position with regard to green IT, despite the contradictions in the UK government’s green IT policies.
Gmail accounts threatened by vulnerability
Google’s Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past and future emails to read by hackers, according to a vulnerability researcher.
Fraud police buckling under mountains of data
Fraud investigators are struggling to cope with vast quantities of data sent to them by financial institutions, meaning some crimes may go uninvestigated or even unnoticed, experts said on Wednesday.
iPhone unlock hackers promise to fight Apple updates
The programmers who wrote free software that unlocks Apple’s iPhone have disputed the company’s claim that their hacks can damage the device, and they promised to battle any attempt by Apple to “brick” modified phones.
Businesses to save millions from virtualisation, claims Butler
Infrastructure virtualisation will be the dominate technology in data centres within the next few years thanks to the convergence of three significant factors in the global economy, according to analyst firm Butler Group.
Barratt builds single IT platform after major acquisition
Barratt Developments said today its integration of Wilson Bowden, which it bought in February, is ahead of schedule, and it is about to embark on rolling out a combined IT platform across the whole business.
