UK brewing giant, Scottish Courage, is to roll-out budget and forecasting software from Comshare across its national network of businesses. In the first phase of implementation, Scottish Courage - which owns Courage, John Smith's, National Sales...
But when the team ran late on the project, they chose a shortcut they knew would eventually crash the system - but only after their role became less obvious. They realised that the software would be critical to plant operations and that failures...
Then came crash and, suddenly, everything changed. Dale Vile isn't sure the good times will ever roll again. Nick was a really successful software sales person. There was a time when users couldn't get enough IT.
The two-phase roll-out will see the 20 existing Oracle database servers running on HP-UX that support the City's health and welfare applications replaced with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 running on HP Integrity Itanium 64 bit servers.
Private sector CIOs would lose their jobs if they were responsible for the kinds of IT failures seen at the Inland Revenue and Child Support Agency, according to UK IT bosses. Those who disagreed cited the fact that IT failures in big private...
The problem is if you want to roll it out, it means sharing. If you have a disaster recovery case and you need a CPU boost, the best way is with utility computing," he said. In financial services [firms] believe they have the best practices and are...
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