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Ringing the changes at the Department for Transport

The Department for Transport has announced that Azzuri Communications will provide IP telephony across the organisations 2500 extensions and contact centre, after successfully tendering for the five-year contact worth £1 million. Short-listed bidders installed systems that underwent rigorously tested on site, with Azzuri securing the deal that includes full project management, design and installation, user [...]

John Lewis offers a different path towards IT skills

Retailer John Lewis has launched a technology apprenticeship programme in a bid to train, recruit, and encourage the next generation of IT professionals. The 18-month course will see trainees assigned to a project team while completing Java programming courses, with the intention of providing school leavers a method of gaining valuable IT skills without necessarily [...]

Glastonbury Festival goes 4G in UK first

Those attending the 2013 Glastonbury festival will be able to take advantage of improved mobile data speeds as EE reveals plans to install the first ever temporary dedicated 4G network on the Somerset site. A far cry from the first event where free milk was offered to ticket holders, festival goers will now be able to upload [...]

Ferrari selects Kaspersky to help protect drivers

Sports car manufacturer and Formula One team Ferrari has announced the deployment of IT security software from Kaspersky Lab to protect its IT estate. Ferrari required a security solution that would protect not only office PC’s and mobile devices, but also the computers controlling production lines used to construct road cars and protect processes used to [...]

Lessons from SITS13 part 2

It’s the turn of Duncan Watkins to chronicle his journey through SITS13, taking in presentations from John Lewis, Barclay Rae, Kaimar Kaur and…Catwoman? ITSM – the John Lewis way presented by Simon Skelton The John Lewis Partnership has gone through an enormous amount of change over the last 10 years. The driving force behind these [...]