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- it services company Expects to Improve Security, Availability With New Solution
- Cognizant Technology Solutions offers business and IT services to corporations around the world. The company has 450 server computers supporting more than 35,000 workstations and laptops. Cognizant needs a solution that provides secure access to proprietary information on its network and ensures that computers accessing its network are up to...
- Tags: Security, IT Services, Network, Information Technology, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- CIO BT Design: JP Rangaswami - Transcript
- Dan Farber: JP thanks for joining me. JP Rangaswami: A pleasure Dan, it's been a while since we've met, looking forward to having a proper conversation. Dan Farber: I am as well Dan Farber: JP you have a new role at...
- Tags: CIO, Collaboration, Role, Network, British Telecommunications, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Productivity, Asset Management, Networking, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Administrator
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Mainframe Linux
- Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title "Mainframe Linux vs. Unix". Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an attractive alternative to Unix on RISC or SPARC...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Paul Murphy, mainframe, Linux, CALCULO S.A., Unix
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Danish IT Banking Services Company Achieves Highly Efficient Project Management
- Scandinavisk Data Center (SDC, formerly SDC Udvikling) is a Danish company that develops IT systems for financial services firms. In 2006, it committed to move the operations and development of a Swedish IT services company to SDC. The project was expected to take 270 employees up to 200,000 work hours...
- Tags: Project Management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Data Centers, Strategy, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Another UK Health Project Dies
- The UK National Health Service is cancelling an IT-related contract due to problems with the vendor. From an article on silicon.com:The move was taken when it became clear that Atos Healthcare - part of IT services company Atos Origin - was not in a position to provide the services to...
- Tags: Project failures
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Is HP an it services company?
- I popped into HPs launch of its latest HP-UX operating system and new servers Tuesday evening. It was held at 111 Minna Art Gallery in San Francisco rather than Palo Alto, where HP usually does such things.I would rather HP had held the launch in Palo Alto because then I...
- Tags: Enterprise IT, Hewlett-Packard
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- IBM could be acquisition target for private equity firms
- IBM, the worlds largest computer and IT services company, could become an acquisition target for private equity firms said Steve Bengston, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr Bengston was speaking at a recent lunch panel on trends and predictions for 2007 organized by FountainBlue. Also on the panel was Fred Greguras,...
- Tags: Trend watch, IBM, private equity company, private equity
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Rodney Dangerfield & IT Services: The Invisible Third Choice
- In the 90s, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal once dubbed me, “The Queen of Outsourcing.” The outsourcing market has changed quite a bit since then. Today with outsourcing’s reputation under fire by American workers and, well, Lou Dobbs, I’m not sure I’d want that title again. Yet, when...
- Tags: outsourcing, General IT Services, HRO, F&, A Outsourcing, Systems Integration, IT Consulting, Management Consulting, Applications Development, Applications Maintenance, IT Outsourcing, Interactive Agency, Web Services, SaaS, Offshoring
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- it services company Expands and Virtualises Its Business Continuity Capability
- Responding to market demand ICM decided to open its twelfth and largest business continuity centre in Essex. To meet its business plans ICM needed the voice and data infrastructure to be installed within tight timescales. The BT-supplied Nortel IP-based converged solution includes Nortel Communication Server 1000 with Nortel Contact Center...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Information Technology, Business Continuity, It Services, Call Centers, Networking, It Operations
- Case studies 2006-08-22
- Innov8ive Case Study: Allegis Group
- Allegis is a leading international resourcing and IT services company. The company needed to provide Project Managers experienced in implementing complex technologies and working with methodologies such as PRINCE2 and ITIL. Allegis were also keen to develop the service offering in this particular area by identifying further opportunities where the...
- Tags: Project, Client, Allegis, ITIL, It Services, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies 2006-08-03
- IBM researchers predicted PC disruption
- It is the 25 year anniversary of the PC and I have long wondered if the industry standard technologies that resulted from the PC revolution were accidental because the computer industry always favored proprietary technologies.It was good to discuss this subject when I recently met with IBM's top strategist, Irving...
- Tags: industry, IBM Corp., PC
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Open source or as a service?
- Open source or as a service?The end result will be ...that the large companies with large in house IT staffs will cut their costs by moving gradually to open source which they are large enough to be able to successfully leverage.At the same time smaller companies will find their software...
- Tags: PS-We, software-as-a-service, SugarCRM, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2005-08-23
- Can open source IT be a money pit?
- Last year, Doug Kaye over at IT Conversations recorded an interview with MIT professor and serial entrepreneur Philip Greenspun. Greenspun's most successful venture to date (revenue-wise) was probably ArsDigita -- an open source business that flamed out after he handed the reins over to venture capitalists who, he claims, ran...
- Tags: open source, Philip Greenspun
- Blog posts 2005-04-13
- Microsoft and enterprises in a love-hate relationship
- Microsoft and enterprises in a love-hate relationshipChoose MS = YOU'RE FIREDMS has shown that they cannot deliver a reliable and secure solution. Look at the track record with:WindowsOfficeIISIEAnyone preferring or reccomending a MS solution should be fired. It is pretty much deriliction of duties for your company to...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-12-01
- Novell Case Study: Cardium
- Cardium is an IT services company based in Kista, near Stockholm. The server management challenge was exacerbated by Cardium's insistence on the highest levels of security for its clients' systems. The company could manage its own machines remotely, but its clients were - understandably - uncomfortable with allowing remote access...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Cardium, Servers, Open Source, Hardware
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- Atos Origin Boosts Productivity With Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
- Atos Origin is a global systems integration and IT services company. The company aimed at growing business with existing DBA staff, improving customer service without increasing charges, diagnosing and resolve problems faster across the entire Oracle infrastructure and improving reporting and monitoring of the customer environment. Atos Origin chose Oracle...
- Tags: Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Corp., Atos, Atos Origin, It Services
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- Atos Origin - Cisco Business Ready Data Centre Strategy in Action
- Atos Origin is an international information technology IT services company. The challenge is how to better maximise assets through more effective use of resources, without sacrificing security or introducing risk through configuration changes for one customer wrongly rippling through to others. Atos Origin implemented a new network design and business...
- Tags: Strategy, Atos, Cisco Systems Inc., Atos Origin
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- Sun Professional Services Delivers Oracle-Ready Platform for Booker Cash & Carry Ltd.
- Booker is the UK's largest Cash & Carry business with over 35% market share and an annual turnover of £3.5 billion. It also aims to be the UK's most profitable and most responsive, helped by a new Management Information System running on an Oracle-ready platform implemented by Sun Professional Services....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Professional Services, Sun Professional Services, Booker, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Axios Systems Case Study: Xansa
- Xansa is an international Business Process and IT Services Company, creating and delivering process and technology solutions that significantly improve its clients' business performance. Setting up the function in India has been part of a far wider shift of resources to the subcontinent by Xansa, which provides services in Business...
- Tags: Information Technology, Axios Systems, Xansa Plc., ITIL, It Services, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Process Improvement, Business Operations, Management, It Operations, Quality
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- UK Retailer Moves Warehouse Management System From UNIX to SUSE Linux and Reduces Licensing Costs by 30 Percent
- Farmfoods Limited is one of the UK's most successful privately-owned food retailers, with over 300 stores throughout the country, 3300 employees and turnover of £420 million. Farmfoods had a choice of replacing its servers and using the same UNIX systems, or using a Linux system for its Warehouse Management System...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Warehouse Management System, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Farmfoods Ltd., Linux, Vertical Industries, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Software
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