Posts Tagged ‘Barclays’

Enterprise Computing: Barclays Bank Services Down Due to Storage Array Problems

It’s been reported in a few places that yesterday Barclays (UK bank) suffered an issue with a “disc array” (presumably they mean disk array) that took out their ATM and online banking systems.  See the comments here and here. Allegedly, Barclays now use USP-V arrays as their back-end...
June 17th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More

The cuts are happening again

The Register has reported that some UK banks are forcing their contractors to take a 10% pay cut or take a hike. It is usual for contractors to take the hit first as they are an easy target compared to terminating permanent staff and to be fair, as a contractor/consultant myself, if the chop comes...
July 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More