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EDS claims world's first .Net online banking solution
News EDS claims that it has built the world's first Internet banking solution using .Net development architecture. According to Microsoft, the EDS team took just under four months to complete the project. Aside from EDS's claims that the project is a...
[August 15, 2002, 11:57]
EDS shareholders approve HP merger
News EDS's shareholders have agreed to the IT services company's merger with HP, completing another step in EDS becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of HP. HP agreed to buy EDS for £6.8bn on 13 May. According to EDS, of the shares belonging to those...
[August 1, 2008, 12:31]
EDS backtracks on 'strategically important' Linux
Talkback It's in EDS' and everyone else's best interest to see a mixed environment with Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX all having minority stakes in the market. Quite right. That's the situation where innovation truly flourishes!
[March 24, 2005, 9:47]
EDS investigations revealed
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has investigated IT supplier EDS four times over the past three years, a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request has revealed. The Sunday Times newspaper had submitted the FoI requests, targeting EDS as it...
[February 16, 2005, 11:40]
EDS: The single point of failure
Talkback Being on the receiving end of one of EDS's "successes" I can only smile as I read this report.
[May 12, 2006, 9:11]
EDS backtracks on 'strategically important' Linux
Talkback "Our next generation hosting services are based on leading-edge EDS Agility Alliance partner technologies that use industry-recognised operating systems. What a nice way to say "sorry that we promote only what our partners had to offer"
[March 28, 2005, 22:05]
EDS hints at broader redundancies
News EDS has been struggling for some time to improve its competitive position. We may reduce our work force by more than 2 percent in connection with our ongoing transformation efforts," EDS said in a regulatory filing Monday.
[August 27, 2003, 9:20]
EDS to manage desktops on demand
News Adding to the momentum of so-called utility computing, EDS will on Wednesday launch a flexibly priced service for managing desktop computers. A growing number of clients expect to get what they need when they need it, and pay only for what they use...
[August 20, 2003, 10:05]
EDS touts mobile-data disaster recovery
News As employee productivity becomes even more dependent on mobile computing platforms, corporate information assets are at greater risk of loss or theft," Sandi Scullen, global leader of EDS' Intelligent Storage Services unit, said in a statement.
[July 8, 2003, 8:06]
EDS shares drop as SEC probe deepens
News EDS said it will continue to cooperate with the regulatory body in the matter. The inquiry, first revealed in October, concerns the $225m (£140m) EDS paid in September to settle contracts related to its stock-based employee compensation programme.
[January 22, 2003, 8:17]
EDS gives HP services and cloud solution
Blog When HP bought EDS for $13.9bn in may most people understood that HP needed to buy a services company. Any doubts about the sale centred on a simple question: what was HP going to do with EDS? Whenever you asked a HP executive about how they would...
[December 11, 2008, 12:26]
EDS offers retirement to quarter of US staff
News IT consultancy group EDS has offered almost a quarter of its US workforce early retirement. In a filing on Wednesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, EDS said that the offer had gone out to 12,000 of its American employees, who have...
[September 14, 2007, 15:28]
EDS says it was a victim
News For a company as huge as EDS, this little fiasco isn't that big of a deal. EDS, according to company officials, was merely serving as the coordinator for what the thieves called "a highly sensitive voice-recognition project for NATO".
[March 10, 2000, 10:17]
EDS Reduces Costs and Improves Security With New Automated Deployment Solution
White Papers Technology solutions provider EDS operates a global network with more than 120,000 seats spread over different locations. EDS required an automated software deployment solution similar to the services it provides for its customers.
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
EDS loses unencrypted armed-forces data
News IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing unencrypted Ministry of Defence data. The Ministry of Defence confirmed to ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that a hard disk had been lost by EDS, but would not confirm that the removable hard disk contained...
[October 10, 2008, 11:55]
EDS Cuts Time to Deploy Software by 92 Percent, Improves Security and Productivity
White Papers This is why technology services company EDS chose to install Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 to get software into the hands of its staff quickly and reliably. Business productivity applications are now being delivered to EDS staff in the...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
EDS Launches Mobile Information Protection With NetApp Inside Distributed Backup Solution
White Papers EDS is the most experienced outsourcing services company in the world. Following the success of an "On-demand" storage offering, EDS wanted to expand into a new market segment: managed backup and recovery services for PCs and related mobile devices...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
HP, EDS clients advised to review contracts
News HP and EDS customers should look at renegotiating existing contracts to push for price reductions and improved services following the $13.9bn (£7bn) deal between the two outsourcing giants. Outsourcing consultants and advisers have said HP's...
[May 22, 2008, 9:13]
EDS announces massive job cuts
Talkback I was a senior technician at Motorola when they outsourced the IT department to EDS. When your company outsources to EDS you now have a COW - Company Owned Workstation and the desktop is locked down to a standard configuration and can not be changed.
[November 30, 2004, 15:41]
EDS backtracks on 'strategically important' Linux
News Outsourcing specialist EDS said it was "proactively engineering" Linux into its product portfolio, backtracking on previous statements that the open-source software was insecure and unscalable. EDS' management in the United States moved to clarify...
[March 24, 2005, 8:10]
