Six fillies declared by O’Brien May 30, 2012 RACING: Aidan O’Brien has declared six fillies for the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday, his wife Anne-Marie yesterday confirmed on Twitter. Betterbetterbetter, Maybe, Devotion, Twirl and Was are five contenders, though Kissed will only run if the ground eases.
Khan eyes Mayweather match up May 30, 2012 BOXING: British light-welterweight Amir Khan has reiterated his desire to take on the world’s leading fighter, Floyd Mayweather. Khan is preparing for his 14 July fight against WBC champion Danny Garcia but is targeting a future fight against the American. “I’ve got ambitions in life to face the best, like Floyd Mayweather,” said Khan. “But [...]
Bolt dismisses Gatlin challenge May 30, 2012 ATHLETICS: Jamaican world record holder Usain Bolt has dismissed former Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin as a threat at London 2012. Gatlin recorded 9.87 seconds in Doha two weeks ago, but Bolt remains unconcerned. “I don’t want to sound rude, but Gatlin’s had his chance,” said Bolt. “He’s been on top, but to say ‘get [...]
How the cloud can answer data needs May 30, 2012 INCESSANT talk of big data over the last 18 months has gone hand-in-hand with talk of the abilities of cloud storage and computing to meet these demands. Just what is cloud storage and what can it mean for your business requirements? It can mean different things to different people, but its aim is to provide [...]
An intelligent cloud network is the bright and flexible solution May 30, 2012 DIRECTOR UK ENTERPRISE, CISCO Q Why is cloud becoming such a hot topic? A Most UK businesses are already using some sort of cloud service and are looking to provide more of their IT capability this way. Ahead of the obvious reasons like reducing costs and easier maintenance, today’s drivers are increasingly around performance, agility [...]
CASE STUDY WUNDERMAN MARKETING AGENCY – BRENDAN TANSEY, CEO May 30, 2012 At Wunderman we have been using the cloud for all of our email services since June last year. We were one of the first marketing agency of any size to embrace cloud services for email and our 340 staff in the UK migrated all email services to cloud technology. The move has allowed us to [...]
Legal considerations for off-site storage May 30, 2012 IN traditional outsourcing, when an activity is transferred by an outsourcer to a service provider, the outsourcer may retain regulatory compliance responsibility. Cloud computing is a new form of outsourcing and many traditional outsourcing concerns and issues apply equally. Compliance responsibility remains unaffected: you can outsource the fulfillment of the regulatory requirement, but you cannot [...]
Spanish regional profligacy sits as a worrying lesson to the Eurozone May 29, 2012 BEYOND the troubled banking sector, there is another potential problem on the Spanish horizon that could be instrumental in how the euro crisis develops: the central government’s relationship with the 17 Spanish regions, and particularly its ability to keep public spending at the regional level under control. The 1978 post-Franco constitution designed Spain as a [...]
I should have the right to quit a job without being sued for unfairly resigning May 29, 2012 AS AN undergraduate, I worked at a laundromat for a few months. Each Sunday I would spend 10 hours giving people tokens for the machines and doing “serviced washes”. This could be a nasty business because people occasionally dropped off clothes or bed sheets they had soiled on account of drinking too much the night [...]
Charities need to be innovative to beat tough times May 29, 2012 PUBLIC services are being opened up to a variety of providers. If you go swimming, social enterprise Greenwich Leisure Limited, not the council, may well be running the pool. Your rubbish is more likely to be collected by a private company. And if you have a relative in need of social care, then it’s likely [...]
