* Posts by kevinm

2 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Mar 2011

Cost-cutting Barclays bank swings axe on 5,600 IT and ops bods

kevinm

False Economy

Same thing happened at Lloyds 2 years ago - they got rid of many of their experienced IT guys and had to replace them a year later with twice as many short term contractors.

Interestingly the same CIO Darryl West moved from Lloyds to Barclays a few months ago - maybe they needed an hatchet man.

HP gets data centre fever in NZ

kevinm

500 square metres?

What is it - built on a tennis court! - 500m squared is only 22m x 22m