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Empowering business agility at Comic Relief

17 October 2011

The UK's highest profile charity relies on cloud's flexibility to process a surge of donations on its big night. ...more

Empowering business agility at Comic Relief

Cloud’s early adopters: Eversheds

18 April 2011

The international law firm has deployed cloud services to manage sensitive legal documents cost-effectively. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: Eversheds

Cloud’s early adopters: US Department of Agriculture

18 April 2011

The US government department unified its fragmented email systems — used by 120,000 employees in 5,000 offices across 100 countries — with a move to cloud. The cost: just $8 per user. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: US Department of Agriculture

Cloud’s early adopters: US Army

18 April 2011

By innovating in personnel recruitment with cloud services support, the US Army showed a 33% productivity gain. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: US Army

Cloud’s early adopters: CERN

18 April 2011

How the European nuclear research center, CERN, embraced cloud to ease changes to IT service management in a dynamic environment where guests outnumber permanent staff by three to one. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: CERN

Dexia's holistic approach to risk management

19 July 2010

Stéphane Hurtaud, chief security officer of Belgo-French banking group Dexia, explains the four keys pillars of the company’s information security strategy ...more

Dexia's holistic approach to risk management

The Thomson Reuters merger

18 January 2010

The cloud proved to be a critical new sourcing option in the merger between information services giants Thomson and Reuters, explains John Spillane, head of business process, Global Business Operations, Thomson Reuters. ...more

The Thomson Reuters merger

Deutsche Bahn keeps IT on track

30 March 2009

IT is key to keeping the German rail company running and a data centre relocation and consolidation project has saved millions of Euros and cut new hardware costs by as much as 20 per cent. ...more

Deutsche Bahn keeps IT on track

Virtualisation gives
Fulton County more bang for its buck

30 March 2009

To increase efficiency and save taxpayer cash, Fulton County’s CIO adopted a server consolidation strategy using virtualisation ...more

Virtualisation gives <br>Fulton County more bang for its buck

University virtualises to slash IT costs

30 March 2009

Japan's Toyo Gakuen University (TGU) cut hardware maintenance costs by 30 per cent by consolidating its servers and using virtualisation technology ...more

University virtualises to slash IT costs

Banking on palm vein biometrics

30 March 2009

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi turned to cutting edge palm vein biometrics from Fujitsu to help secure customer transactions on a new combined credit and ATM bank card. ...more

Banking on palm vein biometrics

Bechtel’s silver cloud computing lining

30 March 2009

Managing the technology for a large multinational construction company is a huge challenge. John Bailey, CIO of the civil information systems and technology group of Bechtel, explains how cloud computing has helped his business. ...more

Bechtel’s silver cloud computing lining

Features

Supercomputing: The next generation

Posted by Jim Mortleman & Kenny MacIver | 2 Feb 2012

A new class of high-performance computers is bringing solutions to many of the biggest challenges of business and society within reach. ...more

Supercomputing in the cloud

Posted by David Smith | 2 Feb 2012

The latent power of “big data” will push high-performance computing into the cloud, argues Fujitsu’s David Smith. ...more

Big picture thinking:
Joi Ito, director, MIT Media Lab

Posted by James Lawrence | 26 Jan 2012

Joi Ito, one of the world's leading authorities on business and technology, contemplates the impact of the Internet of Things, big data, open hardware — and the CIO’s changing world. ...more

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