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Retail banks on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly turning to virtualisation technologies to centralise deployment and management of IT resources, cut costs and save energy, according to research commissioned by Microsoft.
29 April 2008
IBM is working with Canada's TD Bank to test its new 'stream computing' software, which uses supercomputing power to manage larger volumes of data than traditional technology.
02 April 2008
British banking group Barclays is implementing technology from Hewlett Packard (HP) to help reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions at its new data centre in the UK.
13 March 2008
UK insurance firm LV=, formally known as Liverpool Victoria, has contracted with Paris-listed IT services firm Atos Origin for the management of its mainframe and mid-range infrastructure.
17 January 2008
Borsa Italiana has signed a three year contract with Colt for the design, implementation and management of its enterprise-wide Internet Protocol virtual private network (IP-VPN).
20 November 2007
Netherlands-based SNS Bank has realised cost savings of at least EUR200,000 by migrating its transaction processing applications to an open source platform.
22 October 2007
State-run Union Bank of India (UBI) has moved its national branch operations to a common server and storage system infrastructure supplied and implemented by IBM.
18 October 2007
The National Bank of Belgium has signed a six year contract, worth EUR8.5 million, with telecomms outfit Colt for the provision of a disaster recovery system.
11 October 2007
Germany's Commerzbank has outsourced the management of 33,000 workstations and 12,000 printers to Hewlett Packard (HP) as part of a five year IT services deal.
08 October 2007
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) is using Grid technology from Platform Computing to speed up processing of credit risk calculations.
26 September 2007
Standard Chartered Bank has signed a contract with UK telco BT for the supply of network services covering its operations in 16 countries.
21 August 2007
Nordic and Baltic market operator OMX says it plans to outsource its external network operations and management of its data centres and has started negotiations with US telco Verizon.
15 August 2007
Italian banking group Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) has signed a three year contract, worth EUR45 million, with Telecom Italia for the design and implementation of an integrated voice and data telecommunications network.
03 July 2007
The OMX Nordic Exchange is introducing a 'proximity service' that facilitates algorithmic trading by allowing its customers to house order management applications within its trading and market data infrastructure.
23 May 2007
BT Radianz and Colt have been selected to provide connectivity and infrastructure hosting services for Project Boat, the European trade reporting platform that is being established by nine City investment banks.
04 April 2007
UK-based Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has completed a £3.5 million Cisco converged communications project at its flagship premises at 10 Gresham Street in the City.
03 April 2007
The majority of financial services firms in the UK have no plans to migrate to Microsoft's new Vista platform, according to research conducted by Vanson Bourne and released by IT consultancy Camwood.
20 March 2007
Microsoft has teamed with India's HCL Technologies to release a range of tools that use Excel Services to manage business-critical spreadsheets by holding them on servers to improve control and data consistency.
02 March 2007
Thomson Financial has recruited BT Radianz to provide network and connectivity services for its low latency data feed.
27 February 2007
CohesiveFT, a US provider of virtual appliances for financial industry data standards, has teamed with London consultancy LShift to develop RabbitMQ, an open source messaging application based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), championed by JPMorgan Chase.
05 February 2007
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