Category Archives: IT News

Edward Thomas, a senior analyst at Ovum, said that \”In the past the government struggled because of the political implications of outsourcing to India, but as it looks at costs with greater scrutiny I wouldn\’t be surprised if we start seeing more contracts coming from this area. Since the recession, companies have become more wary […]

The CIXs Project Leader, Richard Jones, said in 2007 that \”the Department of Work and Pensions will be the provider of the CISx service for all departments and, alongside HM Revenue and Customs and IPS, influence its direction and fund its development. This is a groundbreaking and complex delivery, however we are committed to developing […]

Charles Smulders, managing Vice President at Gartner said that \”Microsoft will support Windows XP for four more years. With most migrations not starting until the fourth quarter of 2010 at the earliest, and PC hardware replacement cycles typically running at four to five years, most organisations will not be able to migrate to Windows 7 […]

The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT), which is set for a large scale revamp following the announcement of radical changes to the NHS, managed to cost the taxpayer £1.06 Billion in the period. CSC, Fujitsu and Atos appear to have been the biggest beneficiaries from National Health Service IT spending, with CSC taking £232 […]

ReThink Recruitment Director, Michael Bennett, said that “London has a high concentration of financial services firms, which are heavy users of IT skills. Many of them responded to the downturn by cutting their IT departments to the bone. As businesses levels have picked up, many have found themselves understaffed and have had to replace a […]

Dave Pye of the Recruitment and Employment Confederations (REC) technology sector group said that “A lot of the growth we have seen has been for business technology skills, rather than just pure-play technology skills, for areas like financial services or pharmaceuticals, underlining demand for people that can get things done. The demand we have seen […]

Gartner recommends CIOs to: Act Now: The Company recommends senior staff to convene now as most official national recession declarations are only announced well after the actual start of a recession Focus on the current Financial Year: CIOs should determine which projects to approve, postpone or cancel Focus on the next Financial Year: Once all […]

Since November 2007 the National Health Service has reported: 116 incidents where equipment containing personal data was stolen 87 incidents where health service organisations lost hardware containing personal data 43 incidents where information was wrongly disclosed by health service organisations 17 incidents where data was \”lost in transit\” 13 cases involving the non-secure disposal of […]

The move will see the company consolidate its Enterprise Services commercial data centres, networks, management platforms  and applications in order to create a ‘scalable, modernised and automated IT Infrastructure’. Jim Hansen, National Officer at the Public and Commercial Services Union said that “The UK arm of Hewlett Packard had already suffered its share of cuts […]

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, asked telecoms operators about the possibility of extending WI-FI across the capital at a London Organising Campaign of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) meeting last week. The Chief Executive of the Cloud, Steve Nicholson, said that “The Cloud has multiple networks similar to what Boris Johnson describes, such as in […]