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BIS moves closer to web rationalisation
News The department said it will support the rationalisation of its partners websites, one of the key objectives of the Transformational Government strategy. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has obtained a content management system...
[November 12, 2009, 11:22]
Government starts 'rationalisation' of IT systems
News The UK government is to cut more than 5,000 jobs from NHS agencies and "rationalise" back-office IT systems, health secretary John Reid announced on Thursday. Reid said that the move is in line with the Gershon efficiency review, which is expected...
[May 21, 2004, 12:30]
MoD gives scores of applications their marching orders
News The MoD application rationalisation project is part of the Defence Information Exploitation programme which runs alongside the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme, which aims to deliver a consolidated IT infrastructure across the...
[February 8, 2006, 15:20]
US recession may hit Indian tech sector hard
News It's the mid-size firms that will be badly hit in the event of a portfolio rationalisation by the American clients," Sheth told ZDNetAsia in a phone interview. Indian IT-ITES companies have also undertaken labour-cost rationalisation by getting rid...
[April 10, 2008, 9:00]
Opportunities to Minimise
White Papers On the face of it, data centre consolidation and rationalisation may not sound like a prime hunting ground for new business. After all, the whole reason for carrying out the process is to discover under-used hardware assets and either squeeze more...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Orange UK and T-Mobile UK to merge
Blog Comment as I mentioned on Twitter last night, this is quite interesting, and assuming the regulators give it the thmbs-up, i'll be interested to see exactly what benefit this really brings to the customers, not just the shareholders.ideally, the...
[September 8, 2009, 9:50]
US Report: The Internet is dead - Sprint chief
News There will be a rationalisation of economics. Just as his company has begun to put large businesses onto its well-publicised new data network for all kinds of communications -- from transferring files to making voice calls -- Esrey this morning...
[October 6, 1998, 9:16]
CIOs urged to adopt portfolio management tools
News The company also says it can help reduce the risks of strategic IT initiatives such as rationalisation, modernisation, off-shoring and outsourcing during the planning phase. Enterprise software management vendor Micro Focus has launched a new...
[March 5, 2008, 17:02]
Who cares about green IT? Not us!
Blog Only 130 individuals were surveyed, so it's not a huge sample but Gartner's conclusion is that measurement and monitoring of data centre energy use will remain immature until 2011 largely because: "even if more energy efficient servers or energy...
[September 29, 2009, 12:18]
Gartner: Remote working 'going mainstream'
News It is maturing and enterprises are moving from a phase of experimentation into a phase of rationalisation, where mobility investments are part of the overall IT picture. Businesses have woken up to the benefits of mobile working and are now...
[March 26, 2008, 11:32]
Camden council cashes in on IT overhaul
News Other changes underway include server rationalisation, a migration to a storage area network, network improvement plans and the introduction of desktop management tools. The London Borough of Camden has claimed significant savings from an IT...
[September 4, 2007, 15:44]
BT wins £99m MoD comms deal
News The commencement of this service for defence represents a logical and significant step forward in the continuing modernisation and rationalisation of the fixed communication network infrastructure which began in 1997," said Darrell Midgley, head...
[July 16, 2009, 17:34]
Unisys puts Stealth into the cloud
News So you're getting the cost benefit of rationalisation and cloud computing, without compromising security or compliance," said Neil Fisher, vice president of global security solutions at Unisys. Unisys has introduced a range of cloud products and...
[July 1, 2009, 16:09]
Oracle's tricky encore
Leader Mega-mergers are justified by the economies of consolidation and rationalisation: much harder to achieve when you've promised to maintain diversity and separation. It's been a set piece worthy of Wagner.
[December 14, 2004, 12:05]
QXL denies restructuring reports after raising £30m
News We're integrating a number of companies that we have recently bought, and in the process some rationalisation has happened, but there will be no major restructuring," he says. Online auction firm QXL (quote: QXL) confirmed Thursday that it had...
[December 1, 2000, 15:27]
Digital Britain recommends 'G Cloud' for gov't IT
News The government Chief Information Officers Council and IT industry association Intellect have drawn up a route map for the creation of the G Cloud as part of the rationalisation of public-sector datacentres.
[June 17, 2009, 8:37]
Government web content to join archive
News This should ensure much better survival of documents you see," he told GC News, adding that it is particularly valuable to copy websites just before their subject matter is moved to Directgov as part of the government's web-rationalisation programme.
[August 20, 2008, 10:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ten is a nice number, as it signifies the rationalisation of the decimal system and all the traditions of enlightenment and intellectual renewal that go with it. Friday 19/10/2001 Amid online discussion of the proposed laws to ban activity that...
[October 19, 2001, 17:52]
Downturn claims 5,000 dot-coms
News Internet sites -- i.e.destinations -- dominated the early years of the Internet's rationalisation. In the three years since the peak of the dot.com frenzy, nearly 5,000 internet companies have either been acquired or shut down in a massive sector...
[March 17, 2003, 12:45]
Tech acquisitions boom
News With persistent pressure on pricing and continued rationalisation of IT buying patterns, most M&A is happening in the mid-market, where smaller players are attempting to build scale and to buy in critical expertise," said Francois Dauriat of...
[August 2, 2004, 17:05]
