West Coast Bank
White Papers A strong focus on customer service has helped West Coast Bank become a leading community bank in the Pacific Northwest. The challenge for West Coast Bank was to centralize and consolidate data and storage to improve IT management efficiency and...
[July 30, 2004, 3:00]
P2P Seeks Refuge On West Bank
News Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident. Out of the West Bank
[August 14, 2003, 17:05]
Time And Money Savings At West Coast Bank
White Papers In the first half of 2003, West Coast Bank was in the midst of a major IT shift toward centralization, which ultimately would lead to improved storage management but initially focused on a migration to a Citrix environment.
[October 6, 2005, 0:00]
Major Financial Institution Protects Information Assets Through Regular Network Vulnerability Audits
White Papers Bank of the West provides personal and business banking services for customers in Northern California, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington, and Idaho. After evaluating numerous vulnerability assessment solutions, Bank of the West selected...
[March 31, 2008, 6:46]
Unisys West Achieves 99 Percent System Availability And Reduces IT Management Costs By 50 Percent Using PATROL
White Papers Unisys West was formed in September 2000 as a joint venture between the Bank of Western Australia (BankWest) and Unisys Australia. BMC helped Unisys West create a comprehensive system management solution to monitor its diverse IT environment and...
[January 5, 2007, 0:00]
Federal Home Loan Bank Of Pittsburgh Saves Time And Money With 8e6 Technologies' R3000 Internet Filter
White Papers The Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLBank Pittsburgh) works behind the scenes, helping to make the communities of Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia better places to live and work. With extremely sensitive banking information riding...
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Server Consolidation With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server At First National Bank Of Omaha
White Papers First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO) is the heart of First National of Nebraska, one of the largest and most highly respected regional banking institutions west of the Mississippi. As the financial industry transitions from paper to electronic-based...
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It might be a bank holiday where you are, but it's not in Sweden. I've spent the past two weeks holed up in a lightly converted chicken shed some 100km south-west of Stockholm, enjoying the absence of mobile phone signals and any form of...
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
BT Warned Against Selling Off Its Networks
News Yesterday a consortium backed by German bank West LB made a bid of £18bn for the whole of BT's fixed-line network. With a flotation of BT Wireless -- its mobile operations -- due soon, accepting the offer from West LB would mean the company was...
[August 8, 2001, 14:25]
Indian Adoption Of Linux Surges
News The agencies include the state-owned Central Bank of India, government telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam, the treasury department in West Bengal state and two private banks. Using Linux would result in savings of up to 30 percent in information...
[February 13, 2004, 9:10]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback Under bank gurantees, you are covered for such losses, also if you try and find out, you'll come to know that most of the hackers are from the west only. As far as your concern about your details being mishandled when your bank tranfers over to...
[June 3, 2006, 14:14]
Six Arrested Over 'Nigerian Email' Frauds
News Potential victims receive a letter -- or more recently an email -- telling them that the sender is trying to move a very large sum of money and offering them a substantial percentage of the cash in return for letting it be deposited into their...
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
IDC: Don't View China As One Entity
News Western PC makers will have to bank on services or leverage on relationships with China-based US firms to grow, especially when the margins for hardware sales are so thin, he added. Large corporations based in China's northern and eastern regions...
[April 23, 2002, 7:31]
Two Ways To Bring PCs To Emerging Nations
News In Brazil, Banco Santander Central Hispano, a large local bank, is offering zero-interest loans to students for PCs if they open accounts, Davies said. In the West African nation of Mali, a former local Geekcorps intern named Moussa Kita has formed...
[February 28, 2007, 15:25]
Cyberterrorism: Network Lessons From Ground Zero
News The institution -- more like a bank for banks -- had multiple backup systems, dual-access in and out of each of its Manhattan buildings, and a resilient state-of-the-art network design known as "ring architecture.
[August 28, 2002, 15:58]
Net Access 'becoming A Commodity'
News Consumers are now entitled to pay "utility prices for a utility product", said Morten Singleton, director of telecommunications equity research at West LB, a European commercial bank based in Germany.
[March 1, 2005, 8:50]
Newsagents To Scan Discount Vouchers By Mobile
News The two-dimensional barcode — or QR code — printed on the voucher is verified against a central database and the transaction is logged by the system, with the retailer being reimbursed by a direct money transfer to their bank account at the end of...
[December 10, 2007, 15:31]
Cautious Reception For '£80m Wireless Broadband Project'
News According to e-Government Bulletin, the six councils -- Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire -- are keen to get an £80m grant from the European Investment Bank to fund the project.
[April 15, 2003, 13:49]
Lloyds TSB To Offshore IT Jobs
News The bank said that, from October this year, a total of 100 permanent roles within Lloyds TSB Group IT will be outsourced to three companies — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Cognizant and Wipro — with a further 110 contractor roles also affected.
[August 10, 2007, 10:25]
Latest Bid Could See BT Split Up
News The group is backed by West LB, a German investment bank, and is thought to have made a bid of £18bn for BT's whole fixed-line network. A consortium backed by a German bank has offered to buy BT's fixed-line business -- leading to suggestions that...
[August 7, 2001, 12:05]
