The HP’s grip on a flagship Ministry of Defense deal could be weakening after rival CSC took over the pay and pensions administration services of the service personnel and veterans agency. Since 2005 the SPVA contract is held since it is acquired by HP, it is part of the Defense Information Infrastructure deal that EDS. With the Xafinity Paymaster the HP bid for a renewal of the SPVA contract in partnership however CSC was chosen as the preferred bidder.

NelsonHall an analyst stated that the HP has been providing payroll services to the UK military since year 1997 as a result of its acquired EDS heritage. The HP’s unsuccessful attempt to renew the contract is not about poor performance. The SPVA talks of excellent team working of both MoD and HP and the agency’s six strategic performance priorities were all met or surpassed. The CSC is not the obvious winner for a major payroll business process outsourcing award. Most notably within a back-office BPO and IT services contract for NASA, it has a very small presence in HR BPO services, most notably within a back-office BPO and IT decision. The CSC’s relationship with the UK government has been stretched over the failure of the two parties to reach agreement over a memorandum of understanding for the continuation of the NHS National Program local service provider contract.

With the massive DII contract and industry source stated that the SPVA deal is small in comparison, however it is a significant weakening of HP’s grip. He said that most of the large contracts that EDS won are up for renewal in the next 14 to 30 months.

REFERENCE:

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240148555/HP-losing-grip-if-EDFs-MoD-bedrock

IBM said that as it discloses a major advance in chip technology, light and not the electric signals is the prospective of information transfer. Integrating its optical components together with its electrical circuits on a single chip with sub-100 nanometre components, IBM evaluated as it calls for the tech silicon nanophotonics.

The senior vice president and director of IBM research, Dr. John E. Kelly said that the technological progress is an outcome of over a decade of pioneering research towards IBM. It lets them to move silicon nanophotonics technology through a real-world manufacturing field that will surely have an effect over a range of applications.

The applications signify mainly through the huge data trend, it was according to the firm. Kelly stated that a huge volume of information identifies as Big Data that in real time businesses are trying this kind of a new era of computing that needs systems to process and analyze.

By evenly connecting different parts of large systems, even if it is a few kilometers or few centimeters away from each other and transfer terabytes of data with pulses of light via optical fibers, silicon nanophotonics technology caters answers to Big Data challenges. However, Toshiba’s tech news sustains what appear to be promising times above for mobile computing, the size and speed overthrow on highly conductive hardware are favorable enough.

Toshiba is primarily summarizing plans to extremely increase the battery life of the tablet and smartphone technology, as it announced a version of their magnetoresistive random access memory or MRAM to work on the mobile CPUs. Atsushi Ido, a Toshiba spokesman said that previously the amount of SRAM utilized in mobile application processors has been growing and this enhanced the power utilization.

Toshiba said that decreasing the power usage has been the topic of the firm’s research emerging in the technology, that use magnetic storage to manage the bits of data as compared to the current RAM technology that utilizes electric charges. Toshiba stated that it can save data even if the power has been disconnected with magnetic storage being non-volatile in contrary to the electrically charge RAM.

Toshiba’s mobile version utilizes elements to enhance the spinning of electrons, decreasing the charge needed to writ information as this certainly requires more current to power. It could give the stimulation to the mobile hardware requirements in the upcoming year to take some chance of replacing the credible desktop and it serves as an interesting thing.

REFERENCES:

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2230940/ibm-and-toshiba-unveil-tech-to-speed-up-data-transfer-and-reduce-power-drains

http://www.techinvestornews.com/IBM/Latest-IBM-News/ibm-and-toshiba-unveil-tech-to-speed-up-data-transfer-and-reduce-power-drai

http://autoblog.justinsmakemoneyonline.com/ibm-and-toshiba-unveil-tech-to-speed-up-data-transfer-and-reduce-power-drains-computing/

Three, a mobile telecoms provider has declared a management contract deal with Huawei, a Chinese ICT provider. The 5-year agreement is worth almost £120 million, Huawei will deliver service management for Three’s transport network, ICT applications and core network located in the United Kingdom.

Ericsson was the previous handler of the contract and now they will see a numerous permanent position sent to the Chinese company, Huawei. Three carries out 43 percent of mobile data traffic in the United Kingdom and the CEO of Three UK, Dave Dyson stated that the decision to choose Huawei to handle the core network operations undergoes a severe procurement process.

He also added that they selected the partner that will be best in meeting their requirements and that will fulfilled the long-term perception of how their network should be driven and handled. Apart from that he emphasized that this kind of partnership is just one of the arrangement that sees them improve the capability of their Ultrafast network, the partnership is a way that the current team will carry on in supporting the management of their core network.

Victor Zhang, the CEO of Huawei acknowledged the agreement with the mobile telecoms provider, Three as it will serve as an opportunity to establish the firm’s capabilities in the United Kingdom. He added that Huawei is very glad to be selected by Three for the operations management of their core network.

The partnership is an essential move in creating a world-class managed services capability, Huawei has been in the United Kingdom for 11 years and by bringing out on the demands of their customers, they persevere to establish and improve their business. To deliver ICT applications management in the United Kingdom, Huawei chose Tech Mahindra, an Indian company as its partner in the field.

The said agreement with Three still persisted in spite of Huawei gets some doubt with other regions. A year-long investigation by the United States Congress classified the Chinese telecoms provider as a security threat, while Australia has banned Huawei from contracts to manage its national broadband network. The report indicated that the Chinese firm Huawei cannot be trusted to be self-reliant of the Chinese government and military. On the other hand to enhance its reputation, Huawei offered to deliver Australia free access to its software source code and equipment.

REFERENCES:

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2230783/three-awards-hauwei-fiveyear-core-network-deal

http://www.techinvestornews.com/Mobile/Latest-Mobile-News/three-awards-huawei-five-year-core-network-deal

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/11b996be-405c-11e2-8f90-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2HREl4jZ2

http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/n/Computer+Industry/74rkhw4te/Three-awards-Huawei-five-year-core-network-deal.htm

http://www.technocular.com/tech-news/three-awards-hauwei-five-year-core-network-deal/

http://news.silobreaker.com/huawei-wins-core-network-management-contract-from-three-uk-5_2266177857732477033

Based on Matthew Braovac, the Vodafone’s head of regulatory affairs that almost £5.5 billion will be provided in 4G by some mobile operators. An increase that several analysts’ assessments could be worth at least £75 billion beyond a decade as 4G could increase its national GDP by almost 0.5 percent, Braovac said in the Westminster e-forum event that the amount of consumption would be productive and beneficial.

The retain prices for licenses to utilize the 4G spectrum come in at a collective amount of £1.3 billion, Ofcom stated. Meanwhile the overall amount would affect in the sum lifted by the 4G auction. Braovac distinguished 4G with the development of SMS, and he said that when SMS was created people don’t have any idea of how it will work, how much it was to be utilized and how quickly the need would increase.

Apart from that Braovac supported the United Kingdom’s position  with regards to 4G, he asserted that the UK is not far behind with Japan, South Korea and the United States when it comes to the level of connectivity. He also added that Japan and South Korea have not yet informed with the promised economic impact of 4G networking however they are like professionals in that area and for that the UK get some lessons from their errors.

Meanwhile, Derek McManus, the chief operating officer of O2 acknowledged with Braovac statement that as the UK would not get to have the first 4G network, it must be the leader in that area. McManus also added that the United Kingdom will be a leader and the drive that they are devoted to stimulate 4G will signify that 13 to 14 years and it will give benefits for all the users.

4G will be part of the digital revolution and it might entirely change many sectors like in the business, health and even with the education department, it was according to the O2 COO. McManus also emphasized that 4G will let most firms to mobilize their workforces that allows them to become more productive and effective.

On the other hand when it comes to anonymized data, they can change that dynamic even more to allow customers be closer to the businesses, evolving the nature of what they sell, when they advertise it and whom they can offer it. However, those who are doubtful with the 4G network include Phil Sheppard, the Three’s director of network strategy and he took the goal of EE’s 4G service. He said that it they will compare the 3G HSPA+ service to LTE technology, the alteration is not as big of a gap as being illustrated by EE.

REFERENCES:

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2230555/gbp55bn-will-be-invested-in-4g-says-vodafone

http://www.technocular.com/tech-news/5-5bn-will-be-invested-in-4g-says-vodafone/

http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/%C2%A355bn-will-be-invested-4g-says-vodafone-07-dec-2012-computing-news

http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/n/Computer+Industry/74rkhucgu/%C2%A35-5bn-will-be-invested-in-4G-says.htm

http://localuknews.co.uk/article/55bn-will-be-invested-in-4g-says-vodafone

http://news.silobreaker.com/55bn-will-be-invested-in-4g-says-vodafone-5_2266171586006483148

A leading provider of information technology, business process services and McKesson UK, CGI Group Inc a reliable healthcare technology solutions and services provider has declared that they have been picked as desired supplier to cater fully managed payroll services to the ALBs or the Arms of Length Bodies of the DH, Department of Health.

The declaration is next to the Government policy to deliver efficiencies with the means of sharing of the back office works, It is assumed to deliver an excellent level of support to the Department of Health’s ALBs that allow the NHS to operate adequately. Including the NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Protection Agency, these organizations will hire more than 30,000 employees.

Under the very successful Government Procurement Service’s scheme for finance, HR and payroll and will support full end to end payroll processes and services next to McKesson UK utilizing the NHS ESR or the Electronic Staff Record system, CGI was selected via Logica’s inclusion as single supplier. ESR is the world’s largest integrated HR and payroll system and the solution extents the NHS in Wales and England, it is an Oracle-based and the Department of Health’s led initiative.

The GPS framework has been a rarely effective way for the public sector to both make cost savings but aside from that to guarantee a constantly high level of service all over the organizations, said by the Vice President Public Sector of UK CGI, Pauyla Sussex. Their partnership with McKesson to give a definite and decisive payroll service that will let the Arms Length Bodies to acquire with their key roles in providing the UK’s health services without worrying about the back office works.

On the other side, achieving cost savings and efficiencies in the public sector is no longer regarding with the technology itself, said by the Vice President of UK Workforce Solutions, McKesson UK, Frank Rutley. Nowadays when it comes to the latest environment, it is penetrating that providers work together to allocate knowledge and expertise to the benefit of their customers, and McKesson is pleased to have been picked as a partner of CGI. McKesson will provide the extent and broadness of technical and project management resource to secure an extraordinary ongoing cost savings, efficiency benefits and project delivery.

With some choices for Department of Health to analyze how DH’s ALBs can further modernize and centralize back office services with the use of the Government Procurement Service’s Framework, the managed payroll services utilization will start as soon as possible. The 7-year agreement for the Department of Health’s ALBs set up on CGI’s experience in providing payroll systems and services for organizations all over the UK public sector, it now supports payroll services to more than 90 Government Procurement Services framework customers.

REFERENCES:

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2223728/department-of-heath-selects-logica-to-provide-payroll-services

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/department-health-chooses-logica-now-113000668.html

http://www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk/resources/item/4849-the-department-of-health-chooses-logica-now-part-of-cgi-for-delivery-of-payroll-for-its-arms-length-bodies

http://www.londonthenews.com/news/Press+Releases/20121108/37446968/The-Department-of-Health-Chooses-Logica-Now-Part.htm

http://www.cgi.com/en/Department-Health-chooses-Logica-CGI-payroll-Arms-Length-Bodies

Paul Osborne has been managing director of the business which it called O2 Unify. Its dawn and pick the idea was to move into the joined-up business market. He told the computer weekly that O2 had already moved from doing purely mobile to offering fixed services as well, yet the idea was to move into IT and communications overall. They proclaim a joint venture with the 2e2 to gather the best of telco and system integration together for customers, however the tie-up also brought the powerful global scale and buying power of O2 to 2e2 and the technical nous of the systems integrator to them.

The two firms had been working together for almost nine years on a number of projects which Osborne says led to culturally very well-aligned people in the workforce it is a partnership that is very dependent on each other and he think that is the best way. R=The first focus for the joint venture was on what Osborne terms, the bottom end of the IT stack, focusing on wide area networks, layering IP solutions over and starting to integrate fixed and mobile solutions. They tried to take an agnostic route when it came to suppliers and be customer-led.

All the suppliers have various strengths to go down commercial route, despite of all not necessarily having the great technology. If a customer has a lot of Avaya installed to take them down the Cisco route would have to show huge cost savings and improvements and the time of the product differentiation is very short in this market. The majority of the deployments by O2 Unify used equipment from avaya and Cisco or used Microsoft Lync software. Then they moved more towards flexible working offerings and with the growth of cloud services. Having the system integrator datacenter on hand, they could offer utility billing and other products and reduce the number of suppliers customers have to take telecoms.

By the end of the month Osborne is proud of the customer numbers set to reach a total of 40 and contracts worth £150m rolling in. He adds that he can’t say if that was the exact expectations however it was there or thereabouts and they think that is great, espcially in the current  economic climate. Civica is the public sector outsourcing firm, it is one of the customer which has uased O2 Unify to deliver its own unified communications systems such as desktop-to-desktop video conferencing. But, one of the customer has signed up and had a high profile.

Osborne stated that they also provide WAN to all of G4S, they are going through difficult times right now in a very public and they need to be able to rely on the support chain more than ever. They have to be there to support them in both the good times and at the same time at the bad.

REFERENCE:

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240162352/Is-O2-Unify-winning-customers-over

The utility giant E.ON has outsourced application services to Capgemini as part of a five year restructure of its IT services in a deal worth about €50m. For the E.On’s business information management and SAP ERP applications, the deal will see Capgemini provide application lifecycle services. From the E.ON to Capgemini, the work has already begun after the successful transition of the service from E.ON to capgemini. The Capgemini stated that the contract deepens its cooperation with the E.ON.

Like many utility companies out there, the E.ON are addressing calls for more smart  metering services which require heavy investments in applications and software development. The case in the UK is that the government plans to put 53 million smart meters in homes and business in the UK by 2019 as part of its GB Smart Metering Implementation Program to reduce energy consumption. Yet it could face a major challenge over concerns about the safety of smart meters in the home and the potential invasion of privacy. This year, the utility companies in Western Europe will spend $10.5bn on IT of which over 62% will be invested in IT services.

The IT services spends $6.5 billion invested last year and it will continue to rise by 4.9% each year. The software investments will increase the most in the next five years, growing by 7.2% each year. The senior research analyst at IDC Energy Insights Gaia Gallotti said that, the need to reduce costs and achieve operational excellence together with the need to comply with the energy policies and regulation will continue to drive utilities ICT investments.

REFERENCE:

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240163345/EON-outsources-applications-to-Capgemini

According to Google, information is more protected in the cloud than it is when saved in traditional corporate data centers. Cloud is usually less expensive aside from the traditional on-premise software specifically if they begin with adding all the other costs of backup, storage, anti-virus and other, however it should not mean that it is inadequate and substandard, it was according to Eran Feigenbaum, Google’s enterprise director of security as he spoke at the AISA or the Australian Information Security Association.

He added that there may be different providers and various solutions that are focused for numerous purposes, but he affirmed that cloud computing is apparently more secure compared to what other organizations are utilizing now. With the previous research that suggest almost half feel cloud storage is uncertain, the Google Apps security chief’s observed some conflict with what some IT professionals belief about the cloud.

Almost 47 percent of the respondents stated that they won’t consider shifting mission-critical applications to the cloud while 37 percent consider it somehow and 17 percent answered that they didn’t decide yet. Almost 70 percent said that the main concern that they prevented to consider it is the data security, this is the reason why a lot of those would not consider the moving mission-critical applications to the cloud.

The research revealed that security is viewed as an issue even for those who already using cloud with some areas, if it isn’t enough that Feigenbaum has a troublesome battle when it come in convincing people that the security is better in the cloud rather than with the traditional on-premise software. Apart from that, almost 62 percent of IT professionals said that they have fears with regards to the security of the data, while 25 percent stated concerns with infrastructure security.

Only 5 percent of respondents to the survey recorded improved security as a benefit from the cloud. Aside from that, it compares to the 43 percent who said that the ease of maintenance is an advantage of the cloud and 41 percent agreed that the flexibility offered by the cloud is one of the biggest help of it. Google also advised that as of this time no organization is entirely secure over the attack and if such an event happens, cloud customers have the right to know what happened, it is in spite of the claims that cloud offers more security for the data.

While most organizations are trying to convince customers that the cloud is the future. Most case studies with regards to the positive aspects of cloud are necessary to help surpass issues people have about the cloud, said by Ireland CTO and Cisco UK Ian Foddering. When the EU is arranging a consistent cloud strategy for the future, that is the time when Google comments about the security that cloud offers.

REFERENCES:

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/analysis/2217453/google-says-security-is-better-in-the-cloud-but-many-doubts-remain

http://www.techinvestornews.com/Google/Latest-Google-News/google-says-security-is-better-in-the-cloud-but-many-doubts-remain

http://www.easywebbackup.co.uk/google-says-security-is-better-in-the-cloud-but-many-doubts-remain.php

http://localuknews.co.uk/article/google-says-security-is-better-in-the-cloud-but-many-doubts-remain

http://news.silobreaker.com/google-says-security-is-better-in-the-cloud-but-many-doubts-remain-5_2266050490477314198

Amazon.com’s cloud services division, AWS or Amazon Web Services has revealed that over 1,500 education institutions and 300 government agenciesin the United States are now utilizing for a wide range of uses that includes disaster relief, archiving and storage, big data analytics, wed and collaboration application, and high performance computing applications.

Public sector customers finally have larger capabilities for a very quick design, establish and utilize high performance applications with Amazon Web Services’ inexpensive, scalable and secure platform with the new features and services joined today in AWS GovCloud, stated by the vice president of a worldwide public sector of Amazon Web Services, Teresa Carlson. She associated the level of support with the federal government actions as the United States Federal Cloud First directive.

Outlined to be submissive with the United States data processing regulations that includes the United States ITAR or International Traffic in Arms Regulations requirements, the AWS GovCloud is a US-specific iteration of Amazon Web Services. It responds to a common complaint of cloud computing that subscribers frequently don’t have any idea where their data is being handled and gathered that could violate several regulations in various regions.

The United States government users of Amazon Web Services involve the US Recovery and Accountability Board, Douglas County in Nebraska and Multnomah County in Oregon, the US Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the space agency NASA, the US Department of State, the State of Washington, the US Department of the Treasury, and CDC or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC’s BioSense 2.0 which is a public health monitoring service that used AWS GovCloud is one of the specific United States government application promoted by AWS. It gathers information from over 2,000 health facilities to support health officials in answering to diseases rapidly and to distinguish trends in public health.

The director in the Division of Informatics Solutions and Operations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Taha Kass-Hout said that BioSense in sequence with the White House cloud initiative is the first Department of Health and Human Services programme introduced completely in the cloud. Operation of BioSense and public health surveillance practice in AWS GovCloud emerged in a suggestive savings in higher costs to CDC and state and local health authority, he added.

The AWS GovCloud combines a number of Amazon web services for the United States public sector use that includes Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon CloudWatch alarms, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2, EC2 Cluster Compute instances, EBS or Elastic Block Store, Amazon SQS or Amazon Simple Queue Service, Auto Scaling, AWS Identity and Access Management or IAM, Amazon SNS or Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, VPC or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service.

REFERENCES:

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2216768/amazon-claims-300-us-government-customers-for-aws

http://www.techinvestornews.com/Amazon/Latest-Amazon-News/amazon-claims-300-us-government-customers-for-aws

http://news.silobreaker.com/amazon-claims-300-us-government-customers-for-aws-5_2266041713711644796

http://www.businesscloud9.com/content/amazon-claims-us-public-sector-success/12181

http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/n/Computer+Industry/74rh5o2vn/Amazon-claims-300-US-government-customers-for-AWS.htm

Amazon Web Services now in 300+ federal agencies

The cross-departmental action focused on introducing cloud computing all over the public sector, Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company has joined the United Kingdom government’s G-Cloud framework. And by way of the G-Cloud Cloudstore, it means that the government organizations can now acquire the cloud computing applications and platforms of Salesforce.com.

According to the Home Office director of IT strategy and delivery and director of the G-Cloud programme, Denise McDonagh said that to enhance effectiveness via cloud services and caters the potential for additional innovation, the G-Cloud programme presents a wide range of opportunity for public-sector organizations.

She added that as an outcome, they are delighted to expand the G-Cloud framework together with Salesforce.com, they are working hard to constantly advance the framework to secure that it establish in line with the demands of the public sector and it allows them to make best use of the latest and developing technologies.

As part of the green IT strategy, government departments are progressively moving towards the cloud, to provide better services at a lower cost, Salesforce.com has approved the G-Cloud for its ability to support government departments. Vivek Kundra, the executive vice president for emerging markets of Salesforce.com said that the record government deficits, a deficiency of public-sector innovation and failed legacy information technology programmes have established a lean point for cloud computing.

He added that all over the world, the G-Cloud performs the innovative path and it is a proof of the relentless momentum of cloud computing in governments. Even though a previous report recommends 80 percent of customers may not be acquiring a maximum return on investment, Salesforce.com’s government customers including the NASA in the United States and Japan Post in Japan.

REFERENCES:

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2220204/salesforcecom-joins-gcloud

http://www.cloudsuccess.com/blog/salesforce-com-joins-gcloud/

http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2012/10/121026.jsp

http://www.channelbiz.co.uk/2012/10/26/salesforce-com-joins-g-cloud/

http://egovasia.enterpriseinnovation.net/content/salesforcecom-joins-uk-governments-g-cloud-framework