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Enterprise architects launch best-practice drive
News The National Computing Centre has launched an initiative to promote professionalism in enterprise architecture and systems engineering. Michael Dean, group marketing manager for the National Computing Centre, said that a lack of common business...
[June 1, 2007, 16:39]
ICT suppliers face national accreditation
News The National Computing Centre is to accredit suppliers of ICT services, in an attempt to increase buying confidence among business customers. Accredit UK is being funded jointly by the National Computing Centre and the European Regional Development...
[November 23, 2006, 12:21]
Photos: Centre launched to promote open source
News The National Open Centre (NOC), backed by the National Computing Centre, has won the support of the European Commission and members of parliament. The concept of the NOC was originally touted in October, when the National Computing Centre outlined...
[February 27, 2007, 12:43]
Microsoft's Hyper-V boosts interest in virtualisation
News Businesses will increasingly turn to virtualisation technologies to get more out of their IT assets, according to the National Computing Centre. Speaking about virtualisation at the launch of Microsoft's latest server OS, Andrew Hopkirk, head of...
[March 3, 2008, 8:25]
Government trails private sector in IT wages
News Government IT staff are still being paid less than their private-sector counterparts, according to research from the National Computing Centre. The findings are part of the National Computing Centre's (NCC's) latest Benchmark of Salaries and...
[February 12, 2008, 14:47]
National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative, which aims to build an IT future for a city with an industrial past.
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
Government backs grid computing with £1m
News IECnet - the Inter-Enterprise Computing Knowledge Transfer Network - is a collaborative project between IT industry body Intellect and the National e-Science Centre. Parsons, of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, summed the problem up in may...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
Academics search for clues after supercomputer attacks
News The far-flung supercomputing project, which only came online last month, has clusters of computers at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, the San Diego Supercomputing Centre, Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill.and the...
[April 16, 2004, 10:20]
UK scientists complete Grid foundations
News Ultimately, Grid technologies will allow scientists to share not only large amounts of data, but also computing power itself. Grid research is considered crucial to keeping UK science at the cutting edge of the computing world.
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
IBM dominates supercomputing list
News Two IBM Power4-based clusters at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts' High Performance Computing Facility That means the systems don't need a separate, expensive switch to link all the processors, and that doubling the number of...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
Why are women in IT an endangered species?
News The long hours often required with computing jobs also may deter women who wish to raise children. The group's goal is to increase the ranks of women in the US computing and IT work force from about 25 percent today to 50 percent over the next 20...
[February 7, 2005, 16:35]
Internet2 sets new speed record
News Caltech is involved in building the TeraGrid supercomputing network, which connects the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, the San Diego Supercomputer Centre, Argonne National Laboratory, the Caltech Centre for Advanced Computing...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
NCP embraces blade technology
News It provides NCP with a highly adaptable computing solution that gives us 100 percent systems availability and significantly simplified IT management," he said. ClearCube's Sentral 5.0 management system forms the core of the NCP rollout and it gives...
[April 23, 2007, 15:33]
UK tech spending set to beat inflation
News According to research by the National Computing Centre (NCC), around 58 percent of companies will make inflation-busting increases to what they spend on IT. Technology spending in the UK is likely to increase at a quicker rate than inflation over...
[March 11, 2008, 8:54]
Businesses urged to tackle VoIP and Wi-Fi threats
News IT body the National Computing Centre (NCC) is warning that, although organisations are addressing IT security generally, through virus protection, spam blocking and firewalls, newer technologies are being neglected.
[September 5, 2007, 16:03]
UK IT spend to rise next year
News The National Centre for Computing found in its 2004 survey on IT spending that 53 percent of respondents expected their IT spending to rise next year, and that more people were seeing Unix and Linux computers as a valid alternative to Windows.
[September 29, 2004, 18:00]
Downturn spells stay of execution for legacy IT
News As IT budgets are being scaled back, infrastructure upgrades and software-refresh projects are being delayed, according to research by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Fox added that businesses are increasingly looking at software as a service...
[December 17, 2008, 16:51]
Open source high on UK companies' radar
News In an online survey of 140 senior technology executives, conducted by the National Computing Centre, more than 50 per cent have either adopted or are planning to adopt open source. Open source offerings have already proved their viability in a...
[August 15, 2005, 16:00]
UK sees worst IT skills shortage for a decade
News The annual poll of 244 organisations, which provides salary and employment details for 5,493 IT staff, was undertaken by the National Computing Centre. Perceived shortages in the industry jumped from 4.2 percent last year to 6.8 percent this year...
[February 12, 2008, 8:16]
UK companies report slack security awareness
News This situation is likely to lead to security breaches, warned the National Computing Centre (NCC), which published the survey results on Thursday. The NCC, an independent research organisation with members that include universities, government...
[February 2, 2004, 10:35]
