Kempinski Hotels, one of Europe’s oldest luxury hotel groups, is in the process of moving its entire corporate IT infrastructure into Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) public cloud, where it expects to save up to 40 percent on its costs over a five-year period.
Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire’s Fire and Rescue services are planning a shared services agreement, named Tri-Service Control, where they plan to all use a new core system.
Reuters News Service’s blogging platform has been hacked, allowing false posts claiming that Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died to be published.
Knight Capital’s trading glitch, which caused it to suffer losses of about £281 million, was triggered by the accidental reactivation of old computer software, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hoople, a Joint Venture Company (JVC) that was set up between three partners across local government and the NHS in Herefordshire in 2011, has revealed savings of £619,000 in just 12 months by integrating back office functions, including IT.
Retail giant Marks & Spencer has revealed that it has gone into partnership with Visa Europe and payment value chain specialist Streamline to roll out contactless payment technology in a number of its stores.
The official London 2012 Olympics website, london2012.com, has deteriorated since the Games kicked off a week and a half ago, according to a number of benchmarking tests carried out by Compuware.
Tencent, an internet giant that has some 950 people working on providing London 2012 Olympics coverage online to hundreds of millions of viewers in China, has slammed the mobile broadband infrastructure in London, which it claims have hindered its ability to upload content on the fly.
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has temporarily moved its trades from Knight Capital’s IT systems to those of rival GETCO, following a trading software glitch at the financial services firm.
Thomson Reuters’ news service has confirmed that both its blogging platform and Twitter account were hacked this weekend, where false stories were posted relating to the ongoing disputes in Syria.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has revealed in its half year results that it will suffer losses of at least £125 million as a result of the recent IT failure that impacted millions of its customers.
Fusion-io has launched itself into the software defined storage market with the release of its ION Data Accelerator solution, which it claims can both improve data centre performance and allow customers to run an open server architecture.
UK-based technology provider Expontential-e has announced that it has added BATS Chi-X Europe, the largest pan-European equities trading venue, to its on-net financial data providers.
An industry group representing the likes of Google, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco, has re-launched to form a campaign group that aims to address competition concerns in the UK broadband market.
Tesco’s website security policies have been cast into doubt after the retailer sent a customer a password reminder email containing the password in plain text.