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Met Office Tests £27.5m Supercomputer Upgrade
News The Met Office has completed a £27.5m project that aims to improve the accuracy of severe weather warning forecasts by doubling the power of its supercomputers. The new supercomputer has the performance of around 8,000 home PCs, with a theoretical...
[April 13, 2005, 16:35]
Met Office Unveils Weather Web Widgets
News The UK's Met Office has launched a range of web widgets allowing people to get the latest weather forecasts and storm warnings on their desktop. The mini-applications are free to download from the Met Office website and include localised weather...
[November 23, 2007, 10:44]
Met Office Hails Supercomputing Success
News On a global basis, the Met Office has achieved a 6 percent reduction in the error rate. The supercomputer provided a six-fold increase in processing capacity compared with the old model, and enabled the Met Office to use models with a finer...
[April 27, 2005, 17:40]
Photos: Met Office Powers Ahead
News As rain pours down over Britain, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Met Office has no idea what is going to fall on us next. But from its new offices in Exeter, the Met Office confidently predicts that it is ready for most things...
[July 2, 2007, 16:22]
Intercea Case Study: Met Office
White Papers The Met Office is a world leader in weather-related and environmental services. The Met Office wanted a more friendly, accessible and easy to navigate website. The objective with the Time and Place mobile service was to exploit emerging channels...
[November 17, 2004, 23:00]
Met Office Expands Horizons With Remedy IT Service Management Suite For The Enterprise
White Papers The Met Office, headquartered in Exeter, Devon, is one of the world's leading providers of environmental and weather-related services. The challenge was the replacement of an ageing help desk system, which had outlived its usefulness and did not...
[September 16, 2005, 0:00]
Met Officer Fined For Abusing Access Privileges
News The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) required the Met to take disciplinary action against the officer for the breaches of the Code of Conduct. A Metropolitan Police constable has admitted to three tech-related breaches of the Police Code of...
[November 25, 2002, 16:37]
Met Office Forecasts SOA Pay-off
News Whether it is hail, thunder, rain or fine weather, tracking it and reporting on it are the meat and drink of staff at the Met Office. We spoke to Underwood about the role of the Met Office, the need for SOA applications to show real returns, and...
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
Met Criticises Local Police E-crime Response
News Millions of emails to the Met won't work. Currently cybercrime reporting is not taken seriously enough at a local level, according to Detective Inspector Brian Ward of the Metropolitan Police. If you walk into a local police station, your...
[October 13, 2006, 16:25]
Capgemini Wins Met Police Tech Deal
News The Metropolitan Police has signed a seven-year £350m contract with Capgemini UK to provide ICT services, the Met said on Thursday. Capgemini will collaborate with Unisys and BT to provide ICT support, including the management of all Met IT networks.
[December 8, 2005, 15:30]
The Met Office Expands Its Horizons With The BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite
White Papers The Met Office recognized the need to move to a consolidated incident management system and turned to BMC Software for ITIL-compatible solutions for IT service management. At the onset, Met Office was only looking to implement new help desk and...
[January 18, 2007, 23:00]
Sema To Manage IT For Met Police
News As part of the deal, 210 Met IT staff will move over to Sema Group. Sema Group, the Anglo-French computer services company, has been awarded a £125m contract to manage the Metropolitan Police's IT systems.
[October 14, 1999, 14:19]
CA's Ingres Sell-off Met With Scepticism
Talkback Paul Beach and that "spokesman from open source database vendor MySQL" are rattled that Ingres is finally getting all the attention it deserves. Hobbyist DBMSs like MySQl and POSTEGRES are finally going to have to duke it out for real with Ingres...
[November 9, 2005, 10:30]
Met Criticises Local Police E-crime Response
Talkback My local police station desk is staffed by "uniformed" civilian staff who seem to have little or no interest in what happens my side of the counter. But to set up a new organisation is a further increase of tax spending that must surely be found...
[October 16, 2006, 14:20]
CA's Ingres Sell-off Met With Scepticism
Talkback I work for CA, soon I'll work for Ingres Corp. It's hardly surprising that other open source DBMS folks are 'sceptical'. Whatever they may say publically, Ingres is a real threat. About that figure of 5,000 - saying '5,000 users' is misleading.
[November 9, 2005, 10:17]
Met Office Hails Supercomputing Success
Talkback This story is meaningless without telling us what the error rate actually is. Sorry to rain on your parade.
[April 27, 2005, 18:26]
CA's Ingres Sell-off Met With Scepticism
Talkback I'd think about drafting the death notice of MySQL if I were you. Ingres is going for its head and Oracle's going for its back. It won't be pretty.
[November 9, 2005, 11:00]
Photos: When Bill Gates Met Steve Jobs
News Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates are scheduled to share the stage next Wednesday night at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference. Here's a look back at some other times the two titans of tech...
[May 29, 2007, 16:26]
Accounting Standards Compliance Met With GIS
White Papers The city of Painesville, Ohio's utility services include electric, water, sewer, and storm water. The city has set up a system for government regulation compliance by using GIS. The advantage of this requirement is that the GIS supports asset...
[January 11, 2006, 23:00]
Have You Met The HIPAA Compliance Guidelines Yet?
White Papers Find out what you need to know about HIPAA compliance and remote access. Every business that is part of the United States healthcare industry needs to comply with federal guidelines regulating patient information.
[December 4, 2006, 23:00]
