While Energis may be the type of company DT has marked as a future take-over target, its majority owner, National Grid, is also rumoured to be considering international expansion. An international alliance announced earlier this year with France...
When the UK government introduced the National Grid for Learning last year it specified that 75 per cent schoolchildren should have an email account and Internet access by 2002. One of the projects we are working on at the moment - which is based...
This was to highlight the business, information, change and leadership elements of the role, and to lessen the technology element. Although many people say the title does not matter, more companies are now using the term CIO to distinguish a new...
As a result, researchers at CERN created Openlab, a grid computing network designed to test the type of equipment that is likely to be standard by the middle to end of this decade when the project really gets under way.
They will be used at the ParallelDatorCentrum, a computing centre funded chiefly by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, to tackle problems in areas ranging from life sciences to astrophysics.
The packages supplement others IBM released in January for several other grid customer types, including financial services, life sciences, governments, and automotive and aerospace design. Formerly the domain of academic groups and research bodies...