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- Protecting Data With a Scalable, Flexible, and High-Performance Solution From Symantec
- Following the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland in 2001, HBOS, the merged entity of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, has 22 million customers and assets of more than £440 billion. Following a landmark decision few years ago to deploy Veritas NetBackup software from Symantec, HBOS has now standardized...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., HBOS Plc., Bank Of Scotland, High-performance, Disaster Recovery, Security, Data Management
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- IT failure contributes to UK bank collapse
- A failed business strategy involving a large IT blunder contributed to the collapse of Scotland's largest customer-owned lender, the Dunfermline Building Society. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Software, Bank, Risk, Information Technology, Banking, U.K., IT Failure, Temenos, Temenos Newsletter, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- G20, London Loony Lamposts and Banking Undue Diligence
- As a national past time, Spank the Banker has become almost Monty Pythonesque in its common expression. As G20 gets ready to roll into London for the most important such conference since the great depression, even hapless university professors such as Chris Knight from the University...
- Tags: Bank, Sustainability, Banking, Government, Financial Services, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Top UK Web sites in September 2008
- Sept-08 Rank Aug-08 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Audience 35,980 1 1 Google Sites 31,769 2 2 Microsoft Sites 28,828 3 3 Yahoo! Sites 21,015 4 4 eBay 19,769 5 6 FACEBOOK.COM 18,410 6...
- Tags: Site, Networking, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Cloud definitions and economics
- Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Who’s Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes of the Internet, that...
- Tags: Hat, Flaw, Internet, Social Security, BGP, Operational Accounting, Government, Networking, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Bank Enhances In-House Software Development With Technical Experts, Saving £25,000
- Halifax Bank of Scotland HBOS is one of the largest banks in the United Kingdom. Employees at its in-house software development centre urgently wanted to improve the performance of an application used in the Human Resources HR department. HBOS engaged two Microsoft Application Development Consultants ADCs who quickly delivered improvements...
- Tags: Bank, Human Resources, Microsoft Corp., Halifax Bank Of Scotland, Software Development, Business Structures, Development Tools, Financial Services, Software/Web Development, Finance
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008
- Banking Service Audience, 000 Visits per user Total Internet: Total Audience 33,254 71.0 Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Group 2,906 5.9 NatWest Bank 2,021 5.9 Royal Bank of Scotland 952 5.5 Lloyds TSB 2,832 6.8 Halifax Bank of...
- Tags: Bank, Royal Bank Of Scotland, Online Banking, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Fill 'er up: biodiesel company in ship-shape for future
- Innovation's Newark plant. I recently spoke with the head of a biodiesel firm that's on the production side of the business. Innovaton Fuels was formed from the merger of smaller start-ups and already has one production plant in operation, and a second on the...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs
- Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMsa Congrats to you George.It sounds like those would have been some interesting talks, I would have loved to have been there, especialy for those two. Good job then, to you two for being right up there with the big boys. Anagi...
- Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, ATM, Cracking GSM, Day 1, Black Hat
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Adder's KVM Solutions Fuel Management of the Largest Financial Data Center in Europe
- Managing Europe's largest financial data center is no easy feat - couple this with the fact that this data center which has doubled in size over the last two years belongs to HBOS plc Halifax Bank of Scotland, a renowned financial institution that has tens of thousands of assets under...
- Tags: HBOS Plc., Financial, Adder Technology, Adder, Data Centers, Financial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance
- Case studies 2008-01-16
- Ellison: Where's the big money in SaaS?
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says software as a service and the small business markets are interesting, but not terribly profitable. In other words, Ellison largely dismissed SAP's Business ByDesign. But the dismissal isn't exactly what it seems. Ellison was speaking for Oracle and for the company a move downmarket...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Middleware, SAP AG, Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce
- Marc Benioff took the stage at Moscone Center before an estimated 7,000 salesforce.com adherents from 42 countries to tout a "new force for innovation." After several years of negotiation, the company nabbed the Force.com URL and promptly applied it as the new name to the the salesforce platform formerly Apex....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Sales Force, Logic, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Novell massages the numbers
- Is Novell looking to get bought? That's the best excuse I can give for its latest earnings report, where one-time cuts to marketing  made for narrower losses and a good pop to the stock. Despite the "good news" of its win over SCO, and...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Web 2.0 video showcase: Acceptable.tv, Brightcove, Payoneer
- UPDATE: Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets! First Issue: NY Video 2.0 March Meetup Presentations at Columbia UniversityMTV Networks: Kenny Miller, EVP & Creative Director, Global Digital MediaBrightcove: Tony Dunaif, VP, Content PartnershipsPayoneer: Yuval Tal, FounderMTV Networkss Acceptble.TV: Kenny Miller“When watching isn’t enough, take control”...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, TV, Television, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Fox News Digital targets mobile advertising growth
- Fox News Mobile is a key component of the Fox News Digital strategy: “Now you can take your Fox News with you wherever you go,” Fox proudly offers. How does Fox News enable a “Fox on the go” strategy? I spoke with Jeremy Steinberg, VP, Digital Media Sales &...
- Tags: advertisement, Fox, mobile marketing
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam
- FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scamtwist in extortion phishing scampls come n get me mr. hitman.. then my insurance will make my wife n family v rich haha...seriously anyone believe such scam deserved to be conned... periodNever dare pay attention to e-mails...This article really shocked me.I don't consider...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI, e-mail, extortion phishing scam
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Incremental adoption sells SaaS to the enterprise
- I spent yesterday talking to a number of UK and European SaaS adopters, courtesy of RightNow Technologies, which has been holding its European user conference. More than 100 people attended from 72 different organizations, which is double the number last year, a sign both of RightNows growth and of the...
- Tags: RightNow Technologies, Saas
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Top European sites: MSN, Google, Yahoo!
- Microsoft including MSN, Google and Yahoo! properties were the top-visited sites on the European continent in September 2005, comScore reports. Top European sites in September 2005 Rank Site Audience, 000 Reach, % 1 MSN + Microsoft 130,970 83.9 2 Google 127,393 81.6 3 Yahoo! 94,270 60.4 4 eBay 80,980 51.9 5 Time Warner 56,982 36.5 6 Amazon 42,284 27.1 7 Wanadoo 36,803 23.6 8 Lycos Europe 36,035 23.1 9 T-Online 35,358 22.7 10 Ask Jeeves 32,731 21.0 11 CNET 31,740 20.3 12 Verisign 31,684 20.3 13 Wikipedia 26,195 16.8 14 Mediaplazza 26,050 16.7 15 Iliad/Free.fr 24,601 15.8 16 Vodafone Group 23,988 15.4 17 Apple Computer 22,604 14.5 18 BBC 22,316 14.3 19 Expedia Inc 22,015 14.1 20 RTL Group 20,933 13.4 21 Telecom Italia 20,739 13.3 22 Lycos 20,690 13.3 23 Real.com Network 20,241 13.0 24 OD2.COM 19,645 12.6 25 mmO2 19,025 12.2 26 eMule 18,630 11.9 27 Deutsche Telekom 17,346 11.1 28 Otto Gruppe 16,940 10.9 29 Macromedia 16,176 10.4 30 Tiscali 16,065 10.3 31 Web.de 15,853 10.2 32 Monster Worldwide 15,626 10.0 33 ProSiebenSat1 15,389 9.9 34 Sony Online 15,377 9.9 35 Freenet.de 15,263 9.8 36 United-Internet 15,093 9.7 37 Groupe PPR 15,022 9.6 38 Adobe 14,978 9.6 39 Skype 14,946 9.6 40 Vivendi-Universal 14,414 9.2 41 Vendare Media 14,133 9.1 42 Michelin Group 13,766 8.8 43 Viacom Online 13,687 8.8 44 Groupe Pages Jaunes 13,580 8.7 45 Walt Disney 13,462 8.6 46 Terra Networks 13,219 8.5 47 SEDO 13,103 8.4 48 Ciao 12,320 7.9 49 ARD 12,291 7.9 50 Gorilla...
- Tags: MSN, EUROPEAN
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- Halifax Bank of Scotland Manages its Ever-Expanding SAN
- The Halifax Bank of Scotland HBOS is the UK's largest mortgage and savings provider. As one of the UK's leading financial organizations, HBOS has a huge presence in the community not only through the products and services that it provides to individuals, but by employing more than 67,000 people. With...
- Tags: Finisar, U.K., Halifax Bank Of Scotland, Banking, Mortgages, Product Marketing, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Marketing
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