The internet has posed a number of issues for large financial institutions in areas such as security and network consolidation and replacement. The impending Basel II accord demands that financial institutions place a portion of their capital aside...
Substantial technology investment is predictably going into enabling financial institutions to meet the plethora of compliance and regulatory requirements, outsourcing and risk management. In other ways financial institutions have not provided any...
It could lead to a wave of consolidation with mid-sized investment banks looking to achieve economies of scale and scope. We are likely to see considerable consolidation by both market participants and technology vendors as firms jockey for...
Brindley said IronPort would also benefit from being part of a larger organisation because of the ongoing consolidation of the security market. Cisco plans to expand its product range by integrating technologies from IronPort that complement its...
Chip-makers reckon their next generation of processors are stepping up to the challenges CIOs face: growing volumes of data, increasing demands on that data and rising energy costs. CIOs are already starting to reduce the number of boxes [servers...
Worse still, is that when they are finally built, power and cooling demands have increased so much that a new facility can be obsolete before it even goes into production. Predicting your processing needs and the resulting space, power and cooling...