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Case study: Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust (NHT) has consolidated IT systems at its datacentre to the extent that it is able to explore the possibility of renting out spare capacity. In 2004, the mental health trust had a server room that was straining to serve ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  10 Nov 2009

Case study: Bolton Wanderers FC

Bolton Wanderers Football Club has tightened network security and taken pressure off its datacentre by moving web security into the cloud. The club switched from having on-site hardware for its web security, which it found time-consuming to maintain ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bolton Wanderers

The evolution of the datacentre

Mark Ridley, director of technology at recruitment web site Reed.co.uk, is exploring the possibility of moving datacentre systems to the cloud to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase flexibility. “Reed has experienced an evolution of the ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  10 Nov 2009

Case study: Holiday Extras

Matthew Pack, web and marketing director at Holiday Extras, heads a team of 80 people and has changed the way IT interacts with the business by encouraging collaboration, innovation and responsiveness. The online provider of UK airport parking and ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Facebook Inc.

Case study: Nationwide Building Society

Peter Stafford’s promotion from head of IT infrastructure at Nationwide Building Society to IT director means he now spends most of his time working with the business to ensure the successful outcome of a £350m IT-led business transformation programme. ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nationwide Building Society

Show them you mean business

“You need to be up to date with what’s going on, have a vision and a big mouth, because if you sit back, you risk outsourcing yourself,” says Alastair Behenna, about his role as chief information officer (CIO) of recruitment consultancy Harvey ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Delight by JB Priestley | Book review

In the years following the Second World War, there wasn't much to be cheerful about. The conflict was still fresh in people's memories, rationing was in force and the economy was in tatters. In an effort to boost national morale, JB Priestley, a ...

From LISA O'KELLY, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Sep 2009

Storage case study: Domino's Pizza

Domino’s Pizza opens about 50 new stores per year in the UK and Ireland and has implemented a storage infrastructure to accommodate the associated increase in data, so information can be analysed to drive further sales. “We have 576 stores and are on ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Domino's Pizza Inc

Benfield Motors is firing on all cylinders following storage overhaul

When Martin Dale, group IT manager at Benfield Motor Group, joined the business in 2007, he was given the key to a datacentre that was “frightening” and not fit to support a growing business, with no data storage or disaster recovery strategy in place. ...

From LISA KELLY, VNUNet.com,  8 Sep 2009

Price of goods in East Africa

We follow two Katine market traders – Michael Ebitu, a tobacco salesman, and Stella Anuo, a fish seller – and their struggle to make ends meet. There is a stark contrast between what a woman can hope to earn compared to a man 20 Oct 2007: The weekly ...

From LIZ FORD, LISA VILLANI, ANNIE KELLY, JOSEPH MALINGA, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Aug 2009

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