C24 Ltd. Becomes Latest Thomson Reuters Elite Alliance Partner

June 7, 2013

Thomson Reuters Elite Clients Gain Exclusive Access to Application Delivery Specialist

LOS ANGELES, Jun. 6, 2013 – Thomson Reuters Elite today announced that worldwide hosting and application delivery specialist C24 Ltd. has signed on as an Alliance partner. C24 delivers business applications across the globe, specializing in application hosting, on-premise deployments, and business intelligence. As an Alliance partner, C24 enables Elite clients to outsource the design, configuration, management, delivery and operation of business critical applications.

Application delivery from C24 eliminates the need to commit time and resources to maintain in-office server environments, enabling Elite clients to concentrate more on core business activities. In addition to managing business critical applications, C24 also delivers security, full-service level agreements, and back-up solutions that compliment clients’ unique business requirements. Routine tasks involving upgrades, data back-ups, and anti-virus are handled by C24’s qualified engineers.

The Alliance partnership with C24 benefits Thomson Reuters Elite clients with exclusive access to a team of highly technical consultants. C24 fosters open and professional relationships at all levels, assuring not only technical and financial fits, but also cultural fits to maintain on-going relationships.

“The C24 approach enables Thomson Reuters Elite clients of all sizes to plug into an operation that is an expert in hosting, delivering, and securing applications, users, and systems,” said David Ricketts, head of marketing at C24. “Our extensive knowledge of application delivery and experience within the legal sector means that we understand how clients like to operate, making C24 a true partner and professional advisor.”

The Thomson Reuters Elite Global Strategic Alliance Program provides a one-stop global marketplace that fosters cooperation, streamlines the buy-sell cycle and helps all involved achieve a competitive edge. Elite partners are experienced technology, services and consulting organizations ready to innovate, collaborate and help our clients solve their most pressing business challenges. Visit theGlobal Strategic Alliance Program to learn more about the benefits of partnering with Thomson Reuters Elite.

About C24 Ltd.
C24 Ltd. is a managed service and application hosting provider that delivers on its promises. C24 technicians lower overheads associated with clients’ IT infrastructures, implement secure, robust networks to help clients concentrate on their core businesses, and deliver solutions that enable clients to outperform their competitors. To learn more, visit http://www.c24.co.uk.

About Thomson Reuters Elite
Thomson Reuters Elite offers an end-to-end enterprise business management solution that allows law firms and professional services organizations to run all operational aspects of their firms including business development, risk management, client and matter management, and financial management. For over 60 years, we’ve demonstrated we understand the business and financial aspects of firm operations, with proven tools that streamline processes to increase visibility and workflow efficiency across the organization and provide the flexibility to change and grow your business. For more information, visit Elite.

Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 60,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to Thomson Reuters.

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Selfridges create noise with “No Noise” campaign

January 21, 2013

The high street is a real battleground, companies are disappearing and others are looking at ways to differentiate themselves due to the continued growth of the internet. Enter an idea from Selfridges (see the video below) which is using some of their retail space in a different  way and is in many respects engaging their already loyal customer base. It might be worth taking a few minutes to have a look at the video and to think carefully how other retailers can engage with their customers.

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Kelloggs: The Special K Tweet Shop

October 1, 2012

 

This isn’t the first Tweet Shop, but its probably the second or third ever, and a very cool pop-up style store turning customers social currency into real goods and positive sentiment… Passers by can walk into the store, sample the range of new cereal crisps and then tweet about them to buy a box to take home. It’s a little contrived, but then again, experiences like this will probably generate Tweets and Facebook posts without the mandatory requirement too… I know I would… Thoughts?

 

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Beautiful Interactive Billboard Like You’ve Never Seen It

August 6, 2012

From the masterminds at Breakfast NYC. This billboard flawlessly marries kinect technology of today with an electromagnetic dot display of yesteryear to promote a new TNT television series premiering this fall called Perception. In addition to tracking and reflecting the users movement as he passes by the billboard, your movements can also be heard!This time by the masterminds at

Breakfast NYC. The billboard flawlessly marries kinect technology of today with an electromagnetic dot display of yesteryear to promote a new TNT television series premiering this fall called Perception. In addition to tracking and reflecting the users movement as he passes by the billboard, your movements can also be heard!

This solution could work so well in some of the UK’s leading retail streets. http://breakfastny.com/

 

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Wired Science: Google Experiments With 5 New Web Connected Installations In London

July 19, 2012

This isn’t quite on the same level as Google’s Project Glass experiment, but Google today launched a set of five physical installations housed in London’s Science Museum. These installations, which users anywhere can control remotely, are meant to “inspire people around the world by showcasing the making that the Internet makes possible.” While Google doesn’t mention this explicitly in its post, chances are that the launch of this exhibition was timed to coincide with the Olympics in London.

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Santander presents The British Grand Prix – in London!

July 17, 2012

Santander, sponsors of the 2012 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix, have released a spectacular concept film, featuring McLaren’s Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, exploring how an F1 race in London might look.

The CGI film, with an imagined 5.156-kilometre circuit taking in some of the UK capital’s most famous landmarks, was produced following a detailed feasibility study for such a race by expert project architects Populous, who consulted Button and Hamilton extensively on the track’s design.

It features a starting grid on The Mall, a near-200mph Santander straight in the run up to Buckingham Palace, and perhaps one of the most audacious corners seen on an F1 track, as 24 cars steer their way from Trafalgar Square into Admiralty Arch.

Conceived as a night race, the lifelike quality of the CGI includes a driver’s perspective from the cockpit of the McLaren MP4-27 car as it races through the streets of London, making for compelling viewing.

This is one for the lads in the office.

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Greylock scientist DJ Patil: “Data is the new black”

July 2, 2012

Great video from Greylock scientist DJ Patil

Dr. DJ Patil (not actually a DJ) is the data scientist in residence at Greylock Partners, the renowned Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and in a talk at LeWeb London, he unleashes a mighty nerdgasm all about the power of big data.

He tells the audience “the demand for data scientists is at a record high” and that “data is the new black.”

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1.9M row insertions​/sec — HP IO Accelerato​rs, HP ProLiant Gen8 servers & Microsoft SQL Server 2012

June 7, 2012

In terms of passenger throughput, Shinjuku Station in Japan is considered the world’s busiest train station. Connecting rail traffic between central Tokyo and its western suburbs, Shinjuku recorded an average 3.64 million passengers per day in 2007. Now imagine upping that to 10 million per day without adding any new trains and the associated cost. That’s sort of what it’s like to reach 1.9 million row insertions per second in a database table using the new HP ioDrive2 IO Accelerators configured within HP ProLiant Gen8 servers.

If you work with databases, you know that 1.9 million row insertions per second is much more than a lot. We knew that the new generation of HP IO Accelerators, released on May 14th together with the next wave of HP ProLiant Gen8 servers, would provide our customers with a tremendous application performance boost. And recent testing in a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 environment made us virtually giddy.

HP IO Accelerators place data close to the server CPU, dramatically improving application performance by bypassing traditional storage controllers and unlocking trapped compute cycles. Based on ioMemory technology from Fusion-io, they operate as a new storage memory tier within the server.  These devices install on the PCIe bus within your rack, tower, or blade server to help eliminate I/O bottlenecks, performance limitations, latency problems, and database blocking.  For database applications such as Microsoft SQL 2012, you can accomplish this by (1) hosting the entire database in the server (and mirror with a second server if you need high availability), or by (2) using HP IO Accelerators as a high performance read cache for frequently accessed files (such as log files), with the balance of the dataset hosted by external storage.

Three Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database transaction log stress tests were conducted over the past seven months with the 2nd generation HP IO Accelerators. Earlier this month, we created a Microsoft SQL Server environment using a single HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server configured with two of the new 1.2 TB HP ioDrive2 IO Accelerators. Comparing this testing  with results from the same test operations performed with two other configurations, tested in November 2011 and March 2012, we saw a huge lift in performance.  The November test used four ioDrive2 devices with a single 4-socket server.  The March test was conducted live at SQLBits in London using three ioDrive2 devices with a single HP DL380 G7 server. This test was structured in particular to maximize use of the transaction log, and what we found was stunning:  The environment with the HP DL380p Gen8 server and two HP ioDrive2 IO Accelerators easily sustained over 900 MB/s of log file access – 72% higher performance than the November 2011 tests and 20% more than the March 2012 tests.  And this environment provided 1.9 million row insertions per second – representing 50% more bandwidth than the November 2011 tests and 20% more than the March 2012 tests.  And, this was accomplished by using only two HP ioDrive2 IO Accelerators within a single HP DL380p Gen8 server.  Better performance with fewer cards – that’s a crowd pleaser!

Dynamic workload acceleration is a huge part of the Gen8 story. By pairing HP IO Accelerators with HP ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP Insight Control management software, you have an ideal platform for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 – as well as other databases – to accelerate performance, improve response times, and boost efficiency.

For more information please contact www.c24.co.uk

 

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Cyber attacks multiply in run up to the 2012 London Olympics

May 4, 2012

Cybercriminals are looking to capitalise on the growing interest and enthusiasm around the Olympic games with several phishing scams which aim to impersonate the Olympics official website or associated partners. The cyber criminals and malware writers know that just about any subject line with the word “Olympic” in it is likely to be opened by a large proportion of recipients.

Costly consequences of phishing attacks

No global event is more in the public eye at the moment than the 2012 London Olympic Games. Many of these scam emails will contain malicious code rather than cut price tickets or other Olympic-themed products. For a company a successful phishing can have far reaching and costly consequences resulting in financial loss and loss of customer data.

We have detected and blocked a number of these kinds of Olympic phishing messages whose goal is to entice users to submit their personal information. It is expected that these phishing attacks will grow in number and become more targeted. Spear phishing.

These kinds of attacks will continue to exist as long as it is profitable and with growing numbers of people on the internet spammers have a growing market of millions of people for their spam. It’s purely a numbers game, the greater the market for the spammers the greater chance of a response and therefore the greater the reward.

To prevent these attacks, organisations need to remain vigilant and follow proven guidelines such as not clicking on links or attachments in unsolicited emails.

To avoid becoming a victim of a phishing attack there are a few simple rules:

  • Don’t trust any unsolicited email, ever.
  • Never “unsubscribe” from a service you haven’t subscribed for in the first place. You are literally handing your email address to spammers to use for future and possibly more targeted attacks.
  • If you interested in an offer contacting the company behind the message by phone and verify that the message is genuine.
  • Keep your company security solutions valid and up to date so that you can secure your organisations network.
  • Employees and other insiders actions are responsible for the majority of security breaches, a culture of security awareness is an important factor in preventing these security failures.

Remember if you receive notice that you’ve won a free Olympic ticket the chances are you haven’t and as always if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!.

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Microsoft Kinect the technology that can help you choosing clothes

March 20, 2012

The video below could help with a number of issues with traditional shopping, we can see it helping with engagement and increased conversions are the obvious ones.

Bloomingdale’s recently contracted with British body-mapping firm Bodymetrics to provide an in-store service to help women purchase the correct size jeans. The Bodymetrics Pod system uses an array of eight Kinect for Windows scanners that analyze and categorize your body based on a 3D model. This helps you find clothes that fit and will reduce the 40% return rate in the process.

You step into the Pod and get scanned. Then it classifies you into one of three groups. Emerald, sapphire, or ruby. Then you can match yourself with sizes and styles that fit your classification before you buy. Here’s some footage from the system in action at an earlier installation at UK retailer Selfridges:

Bodymetrics @ Selfridges, Oxford Street, London from Bodymetrics Ltd. on Vimeo.

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