Month: July 2016
Meet Toll’s new CIO
How DevOps transformed Hiscox into an organisation that can deploy code in 30 minutes
The world of insurance is often portrayed as staid and conservative when it comes to IT, and Hiscox was no exception. The company has about 2,000 employees, some 250 of them working in IT. But with...
DevOps’ three big myths solved
Puppet senior product manager Ryan Coleman has attempted to dispel the three big myths surrounding DevOps at this week's Computing DevOps Summit 2016. In a presentation Coleman focused on three of the...
NHS England scraps controversial care.data project
The NHS care.data project designed to share anonymised patient data has been scrapped following the intervention of Fiona Caldicott, the National Data Guardian for Health and Care. The decision was made...
Ubuntu Linux to be bundled as preferred OS with Pivotal Cloud Foundry app platform
Canonical and Cloud Foundry developer Pivotal have agreed a partnership in which Canonical's Ubuntu Linux will become the preferred operating system for running Cloud Foundry, with secure certified Ubuntu...
Insurer RSA completes large data centre migration
Insurance firm Royal & SunAlliance (RSA) has completed a data centre migration, moving a mainframe supporting around 2,000 applications to new data centres in Scandinavia and Canada. The migrated applications...
Openreach starts duct and pole sharing trials for broadband delivery
Iceland tops list of low-risk datacentre locations
Data centres could cut power consumption by 25 per cent with simultaneous multi-threading
Data centres could cut power consumption by 25 per cent and achieve higher rates of use if operating systems deployed simultaneous multi-threading, according to researchers at the Australian National University...