Saving Time and Money

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Some people who class themselves as ‘computer illiterate’ may know many different keyboard shortcuts, and that really does save a great deal of time (and money) especially for business. Less use of the mouse means less need to focus on clicking a particular area, and a computer will barely use their mouse at all. It ….  Read More

Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday

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On March 14 2006, Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This move was inspired by the company’s own need for computing resources that can scale rapidly at inexpensive. AWS, that is section of Amazon.com, provides multi-tenanted pay-as-you-use cloud-based services and raw ….  Read More

Government failing to control contractors, say MPs

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Government is failing to regulate private companies that offer outsourced services and these contractors must be more ethical when going through government, consistent with a highly critical Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report. The report follows hearings with major suppliers Atos, Capita, G4S and Serco, and later with the Cabinet Office, Department of Health, Ministry of ….  Read More

Hammersmith and Fulham Council updates desktops to support flexible working

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Hammersmith & Fulham Council is using Colt’s Workspace as a Service to support greater than 2,000 virtual desktop users in line with VMware’s Horizon Suite. As portion of a protracted-standing requirement to cut back physical estate, Hammersmith & Fulham Council has adopted a wise working strategy supported by technology from Colt. Desktop virtualisation is getting ….  Read More

Top easy methods to prepare for SDN

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Making the leap to SDN? Don’t jump in blind. It helps to grasp what software-defined networking is, firstly, after which what it might do for you.   Then it’s smart to understand the whole inner workings of an SDN controller, the diversities between products offered by established vendors and begin-ups, and whether open source and ….  Read More

Business and the budget

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The massive news of the week has for sure been the budget. We’ve been glued to our screens to work out what we are able to expect from the govt. to assist in giving our economy the boost it needs and the business benefits on offer. The extensions made to tax relief in 2012 showed ….  Read More

From Chief Information Officer to Chief Innovation Officer or bust

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Over the following year, we’re going to determine CIOs step into the limelight, or step into oblivion. The decision is theirs! With cloud computing, mobile technologies and large data creating a significant impact on business practices and revenues, the CIO’s technical expertise is increasingly called upon within the boardroom and around the business as functional ….  Read More