New bank with a head start

The new bank to jostle on the consumer high street in the uk is the metro.

http://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/

offering 'unparalleled levels of service' and ICT that will deliver a new customers account, cards and so on within 15 minutes presumably using a clean design of systems and standards that truly takes advantage of advances in computing.

If the metro [...]

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Common virtualisation security risks and mitigation advice

According to Gartner, 60 percent of virtualised servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace by the end of 2012,  Gartner expects this figure to fall to 30 percent by the end of 2015.

Gartner also note that at the end of 2009, 18 percent of enterprise data center workloads that could [...]

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Virtualisation and sustainability - 2010

Virtualisation offers efficient dynamic provisioning, high levels of availability, resilience and business continuity.

Pre-virtualisation an average server utilization figure was 10% – in other words 90% server redundancy adding no value

Virtualisation significantly helps to reduce energy consumption, an organisations carbon footprint, and  running costs

Virtualisation market is growing rapidly especially SMB. The current market penetration of the [...]

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