Storage specialist Quantum has released a line of products it claims will revolutionise fail-safe back-up systems by putting data onto disks, not tape. Richard Collins, managing director for Quantum EMEA, said the new product was all about reducing...
HP said it will no longer be using StorageTek's disk arrays or libraries despite a years-long OEM agreement with the vendor, but will instead be using Quantum. Compaq and Quantum have had a long-standing partnership which has seen Quantum's...
Workers employed in factories in the developing world making computer components for companies such as IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are suffering atrocious conditions for extremely low pay, according to a new report.
Manufacturing companies have been doing just so for years - as illustrated by the decades-old principles of 'just-in-time manufacturing', as well as the more recent 'agile manufacturing'. Historically when times are good IT vendors start to believe...
British Airways (BA) is borrowing a manufacturing concept originally developed by Toyota for the automotive sector in the 1970s to make its technology more "lean" for the future. BA CEO Willie Walsh claims "lean" technology and processes will be...
Coby continues to adhere to his mantra of there being "no IT projects, only business projects" and is currently overseeing the tech infrastructure behind the new Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport and introducing lean manufacturing principles...