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Serco secures new European Medicines Agency ICT contract

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Serco has secured a new contract to continue providing information and communications technology (ICT) services to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a decentralised agency of the European Union, located in London. Serco has been supporting the EMA since 2010 and this new four-year contract, which started on 1 July 2014, is valued at €4.5m.

IT budgets set to increase according to a third (37%) of financial services organisations

Survey of UK & Ireland financial services sector reveals companies are set to spend as cost-cutting moves down the agenda and customers become priority.

South Korea’s improving economic conditions boost ICT expenditure

Due to the improving economy and enhanced financial prospects in South Korea, enterprises embrace ICT as a major tool for business improvement.

Worldwide IT market showing tentative signs of improvement

According to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Doc #250222), recent volatility will gradually give way to a more positive outlook for IT spending in the second half of 2014. With the U.S. and other mature economies mostly heading in the right direction and a significant commercial PC refresh cycle already underway, improvements in business confidence are set to drive a moderate infrastructure upgrade cycle over the next 12-18 months, while...

OpenStack Summit heads to Europe

For the first time, the OpenStack® Summit is coming to Europe. The 10th OpenStack Summit will be held November 3-7, 2014 at the Palais de Congrès and the Le Meridien in Paris. This week-long event brings together users, developers, telco leaders and enterprise CIOs from across the industry to collaborate on the future of cloud computing.

New benchmarking studies reveal how users can get up to 60 per cent more performance from any existing infrastructure

Bare metal cloud provider Bigstep debunks a number of infrastructure myths, such as more CPUs equal more performance and that OS choice has only minimal impact on performance.

Big Data event to showcase opportunities for business

A national provider of IT infrastructure is staging an event in the Sheffield City Region to show...

Tech sector loses potential sales due to lack of effective communication

There is new and ever more capable technology at our disposal but, as a leading sales training...

The cost of poor IT

CloudTalent, a leading global IT consultancy, has published new findings that reveal how private...

Ekro chooses the storage and back-up solution from Proact

Ekro, part of the VanDrie Group, the global market leader in veal, has chosen Proact for the...

Global American Express/CFO survey reveals a return to prosperity is finally on the horizon for UK PLC

2014 sees a surge in economic optimism amongst UK CFOs with 93% anticipating modest to substantial...

No escape from company email

Independent research commissioned by GFI Software reveals that the demands of work email are...

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