Regulation

Gartner: IT Spending Down Nearly 4 Percent in ’09

Gartner has released a new report that shows the overall gloomy global economy is forcing enterprises to cut back on…

16 years ago

EC: Major Cyberattack Could Cost £179bn

There is a 10 to 20 percent risk of a major failure in communications networks within the next 10 years,…

16 years ago

UK IT Departments Face Remote Working Rise

New government regulations could extend flexible working to an extra 4.5 million UK staff

16 years ago

£30m IT Project Helped Drag Dunfermline Down

Questions are being asked about the degree to which a costly IT project contributed to the decision to effectively nationalise…

16 years ago

Oracle Improves Enterprise Database Admin

The database maker has announced tighter integration between Oracle Database Vault, the company's database access control technology, and Enterprise Manager

16 years ago

Google Succumbs To Downturn With Job Cuts

Google announces plans to lay off 200 employees on its sales and marketing teams

16 years ago

Union Puts IBM Job Cuts At 10,000

By the time the latest round of layoffs are completed, IBM will have cut nearly 10,000 jobs, according to unions

16 years ago

Can Dell Deliver The Full Monty?

Dell is wasting time with claims about server performance. The real story is the management tools it says can free…

16 years ago

UK Pays Female IT Pros A Third Less

Not surprisingly, with lower pay, the UK lags behind Ireland and Italy in employing women in IT

16 years ago

UK IT Departments Unprepared For Carbon Trading

Research from Gartner says not enough companies are preparing their IT systems for the data management and analytics required for…

16 years ago

UK Government: We’ll Secure Smart Meters

The Department for Energy and Climate Change has moved to reassure users over fears on smart grids

16 years ago

AT&T Launches Smart Grid Despite Hacking Concerns

Security consultants have engineered a worm which can bring down smart grids - while AT&T launches a product and the…

16 years ago

UK Government Defends Use Of Second Life

"Fantasy world" innovation centre could save taxpayers money by reducing travel, according to the DWP

16 years ago

Research: IT Contractors At Odds With Contracting Budgets

Over half of business think they are paying too much for contractors at a time when IT budgets are shrinking

16 years ago

Big Blue Helps Emerald Isle Be Greener

IBM is lending its technical help to a cloud computing project to monitor marine pollution in Ireland

16 years ago

Sun Plans 27 teraflop Computing Center In South Africa

Sun Microsystems is providing the hardware and software for what will become South Africa's largest HPC environment.

16 years ago

EC: Green IT Can Combat Climate Change

The tech industry should lead the way when it comes to adoption of energy efficient IT, says a European Commission…

16 years ago

BigFix SAM Tool : Track Enterprise Software

How many software packages, licenses, versions and locations are spread across your company? If you can even start to answer,…

16 years ago

Tesco sold on virtualisation

The retailer says the technology has enabled it to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent

16 years ago

NAO: Delays cost Prison Project £41 million

A plan to create a single UK database of prisoner records has spiralled to more than £500 million

16 years ago

IBM Releases Cost Cutting Blade Technology

IBM is offering 8 Gb Fibre Channel capabilities in its family of BladeCenter blade servers

16 years ago

UK should learn from open source schools project

Avoiding commercial licenses has enabled the National Digital Resource Bank project to succeed, say free software experts

16 years ago

EMC Promotes Smarter Server Management

Smarts Server Manager aims to help IT administrators better manage virtual data centers

16 years ago

Shake-up For Troubled NHS IT Project

A new organisation will be created to manage much of the health service's National Programme for IT, according to reports.

16 years ago

UK Recession Hits IT Jobs Hardest

Demand for IT staff is falling significantly faster than the overall drop in the UK as a whole

16 years ago

HP: Virtualisation Will Help Fight Recession

HP is beefing-up its virtualisation offerings to help businesses control data centre spending.

16 years ago

Google Discusses Clean Energy Plan

Google is continuing to push a national energy plan that embraces efficiency and renewable power.

16 years ago

London Olympics’ IT More “Sustainable” Than Beijing

Facing increased scrutiny over a spiraling budget, the organisers of the 2012 games claim green IT will help cut project…

16 years ago

UK Organisations Reveal “Green IT” Plans

Lloyd's of London, John Lewis and Defra have discussed sustainable approaches to tech

16 years ago

Microsoft’s Innovations That Aren’t

Why does Microsoft call its big EU lobbying-party an Innovation Day? When a big company puts on a show in…

16 years ago