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• Podcast: Business continuity is not just an IT issue - Russell Price of the Continuity ForumPosted:17:30 07 May 2008The responsibility for business continuity has to reside at the highest level or any organisation and not just with the IT department. Russell Price of the Continuity Forum talks to Computer Weekly's Warwick Ashford about the issues involved.
• Podcast: Top tips for powering and cooling datacentresPosted:09:30 17 Apr 2008Powering and cooling data centres can be expensive if done incorrectly. Gartner analyst Rakesh Kumar gives the latest advice on how to spot the symptoms of a data centre under stress and how to control and measure power to correct the problem.
• Podcast: Microsoft COO Kevin Turner on how to get a high-paying management job in ITPosted:09:30 17 Apr 2008Microsoft hired Kevin Turner to be its Chief Operating Officer and offered him base salary of $570,000 (£285,000) per year and a $7m (£3.5m) up-front payment in 2005. Kevin Turner, previously CIO at Wal-Mart, gives his top tips in six minutes on how IT staff can make the progression to managers and earn the big bucks.
• Podcast: Round-up 11 April - MPs ask questions about Terminal 5Posted:17:38 11 Apr 2008Weekly IT news round-up from Warwick Ashford at ComputerWeekly.com. This week: The New York Stock Exchange implementing off the shelf technology to cut time taken to access business critical data; and MPs aks questions about what really went wrong at Heathrow’s Terminal 5: people, processes, or IT?
• Podcast: Shell VP for IT infrastructure and services reveals their innovative outsourcing approachPosted:16:18 07 Apr 2008Shell’s $4 billion IT outsourcing deal announced earlier this month, will see outsourcer EDS take over the risk and governance of the oil company’s key networks and data centre IT suppliers. In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to Swee Chen Goh, vice president for IT infrastructure and services for Shell globally, about this innovative contract.
• Podcast: News round-up 7 April – Anti-fraud measures for debit cards and the Phorm privacy debatePosted:15:34 07 Apr 2008Round-up of UK IT industry news including last week’s top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com and a look at the main stories in this week’s issue.
• Opinion + audio: UK companies must improve business continuityPosted:17:35 01 Apr 2008UK companies are still not doing enough to ensure business continuity, according to the Continuity Forum.
• Podcast: News round-up 31 March - Speedy Hire saves by rationalising Microsoft licencesPosted:10:39 31 Mar 2008Our weekly round-up of UK IT industry news including the top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com last week, and a look ahead to the focus of next week's issue. This week's stories include how tool hire firm Speedy Hire expects to save £6m over the next six years after rationalising the way it licenses Microsoft software.
• IT news round-up podcast for 20 March: Patent warning and workplace bullyingPosted:17:28 20 Mar 2008Weekly round-up of UK IT news. This week, stories include a warning to IBM customers to check they're protected from patent lawsuits by third-party software developers and news that over two-thirds of UK IT workers claim that they have suffered workplace bullying.
• IT news round-up podcast for 17 March: Gateway reviews, share trading platforms and Eurostar's new software implementationPosted:12:20 17 Mar 2008In this week's UK IT news round-up, how the government is using old legislation to keep Gateway reviews secret; a report on how Eurostar has attracted record passengers and boosted sales 15.5% after implementing a revenue management software package; and news of share trading exchange Turquoise which is due to complete the implementation of its IT infrastructure in the first week of April, using off the shelf trading applications.
• IT news round-up podcast for 10 March: National ID card scheme faces new criticismPosted:10:25 10 Mar 2008Weekly IT news round-up podcast for 10 March 2008. Stories this week include fresh criticism of the UK national identity database / ID card scheme from the Crosby report and other sources, and BAA's rejection of RFID technology in favour of barcodes for baggage tracking.
• IT news round-up podcast: IT jobs market - 3 March 2008Posted:00:00 03 Mar 2008This week: Computer Weekly’s quarterly survey of the IT jobs market; the new national database of confidential patient records to be open to access by staff without professional qualifications; and EasyJet's website redesign.
• Podcast: How to get the most out of Microsoft Posted:11:00 29 Feb 2008In this interview Adrian Davey, head of IT at Tubelines, speaks to Cliff Saran about how Tube Lines has made the most from the company's Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.
• IT news round-up podcast: Public sector IT goes green - 25 February 2008Posted:00:00 25 Feb 2008Stories in this week's podcast round-up, presented by Warwick Ashford, include a report from executive editor Tony Collins that the UK government is planning a 'green' strategy for the public sector.
• Weekly IT news round-up podcast: Blair's politics interfered with NHS NPfIT practicalitiesPosted:12:00 18 Feb 2008In this week's podcast round-up of the latest IT industry news, Warwick Ashford discusses stories including revelations that Tony Blair tried to shorten the NPfIT timetable to meet an election deadline, and the way in which a number of companies are making the most of the special skills of people with autism in the world of software testing.
• Podcast interview: Ralph Szygenda, CIO General Motors Posted:14:00 15 Feb 2008Ralph Szygenda, global chief information officer at General Motors, has used IT to save the company £6bn in 10 years.
• IT news round-up podcast: Birmingham City Council SAP-system goes wrongPosted:18:22 12 Feb 2008Computer Weekly's Warwick Ashford brings you the UK IT news highlights for the week ending 12 February, including Birmingham City Council's backlog of unpaid invoices following an SAP-based system's failure; a visit to Cern to see their latest developments; and news of Scotland's trial of telemedicine services for remote communities.
• UK IT news round-up podcast: Government u-turn on NPfIT papersPosted:16:04 05 Feb 2008Podcast round-up of the UK IT news for the week ending 5 February 2008. This week we focus on the UK government's U-turn decision to release papers first requested by Computer Weekly under the Freedom of Information Act in 2005.
• The commercial benefits of design-led sustainabilityPosted:15:28 28 Jan 2008Interest in environmentally responsible technology has never been higher; a lot of powerful marketing is being done by major IT suppliers’ brands to highlight their efforts in this area and much of what is being done is very laudable, but not particularly sustainable.
• Interviews with women working in IT: Not just a man's worldPosted:14:55 25 Jan 2008Rebecca Thomson talks to senior female figures in the IT industry about the issues around working in what is still seen by some as a 'male' profession.
• IT on the London Underground: Podcast interview with Adrian Davey of Tube LinesPosted:11:10 14 Jan 2008Podcast interview with Adrian Davey of Tube Lines on the IT that keeps the London Underground running, including an innovative new project, SmartStep, which aims to improve maintenance of escalators.
• Flexible Working PodcastPosted:13:50 07 Jan 2008Boundaries within and between enterprises are steadily disappearing. Listen to this podcast to find out flexible working could work for your company.
• Unified communications with Nortel CTO John RoesePosted:13:58 04 Jan 2008Nortel CTO John Roese talks to Computer Weekly's deputy technology editor, John-Paul Kamath, about unified communications and making the leap from network manager to CTO.
• Virtualisation PodcastPosted:14:52 17 Dec 2007Expectations for change are high, and ICT services need to be extremely quick off the mark to meet them. We need to be able to mix and match services, in real time, to serve up the right resources in all the right places, at the right time, in this dynamic and volatile business environment.
• Measuring the benefits from green computingPosted:16:16 11 Dec 2007It would seem that all leading firms in the IT arena are clamouring right now to establish their green and environmentally friendly credentials to today’s and tomorrow’s’ purchasers of essential IT such as servers and other devices that go into datacentres.
• Corporate and Social Responsibility PodcastPosted:16:27 06 Dec 2007Investment in new technology continues apace. Yet despite these pressures to invest, it is possible to use IT efficiently, and to take an environmentally-balanced approach. Listen to this podcast to find out more about the importance of responsibility in today’s complex business environment.
• Datacentre kit to be given Energy Star green ratingPosted:10:05 23 Nov 2007Far from being green, IT equipment such as desktop PCs and servers running in datacentres, are contributing to global warming. They are putting massive demands on the electricity grid.
• Insecure software: Whose fault is it anyway? Posted:10:00 23 Nov 2007Phil Cracknell, president of the Internet Security Systems Association (ISSA), speaks frankly to Cliff Saran about the challenges in creating applications that balance new functionality with tight security.
• Five reasons IT outsourcing failsPosted:09:43 23 Nov 2007Almost 50% of IT outsourcing projects fail. In this interview Cliff Saran speaks to Paul Michaels, senior consultant at Metri Measurement Consulting
• CIO priorities: IT's role in the airport businessPosted:09:40 23 Nov 2007In this interview Martin Smith, director of group technology and innovation at Manchester Airports Group, discusses how his IT strategy is aligned to business needs. The airport plays a critical role in the prosperity of the North West of the UK.
• The true cost of IT securityPosted:09:37 23 Nov 2007In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Martin Sadler, director of HP's Trusted Systems Lab, about how much should we be expected to spend and how much security is enough. Hackers are getting smarter, and Martin believes newly trained IT professionals are ill-equipped to deal with the sophisticated nature of modern attacks because of limitations in the current way IT security is taught.
• CIO priorities: How IT helps Skanska tackle complexity, environmental and safety issuesPosted:09:33 23 Nov 2007As in any successful business, Swedish construction company Skanska needs to balance quality with the need to maintain profitability. At the same time, Skanska is addressing environmental issues and becoming safety conscious.
• The business benefits of carrier independent datacentre outsourcingPosted:12:18 13 Nov 2007Today’s IT departments are under pressure as never before in order to cope with a data explosion.
• Maximising the benefits from CRM Posted:10:55 10 Aug 2007There are many benefits that CRM can bring to a company. CRM by definition improves business relationships, bolsters customer service and strengthens marketing campaigns which in turn improves an organisation's sales.
• Making the business benefits of security technology reap rewardsPosted:08:48 20 Dec 2006The need for all firms to have an effective, robust and flexible IT security strategy is as important as it ever was. Yet there exists a train of thought that security is a business hygiene factor; that firms simply have to invest in security. However, strategic investment in security technology can actually act as an agent of change for the business.

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• Interview: Emergency telecoms training - Oisin Walton from Telecoms sans FrontieresPosted:14:58 11 Apr 2008Oisin Walton of Telecoms Sans Frontières talks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about establishing emergency telecommunations in disaster relief situations, including the technical solutions available, and how volunteers are trained for field work in an emergency situation.
• Podcast: Fabien Doléac of Telecoms Sans Frontières on emergency telecoms on the frontline Posted:11:15 10 Apr 2008Cliff Saran interviews Fabien Doléac of Telecoms Sans Frontières (TSF), who has recently returned from Mozambique where he setup a telecommunication centre.
• IT news round-up podcast for 10 March: National ID card scheme faces new criticismPosted:10:25 10 Mar 2008Weekly IT news round-up podcast for 10 March 2008. Stories this week include fresh criticism of the UK national identity database / ID card scheme from the Crosby report and other sources, and BAA's rejection of RFID technology in favour of barcodes for baggage tracking.
• IT news round-up podcast: Public sector IT goes green - 25 February 2008Posted:00:00 25 Feb 2008Stories in this week's podcast round-up, presented by Warwick Ashford, include a report from executive editor Tony Collins that the UK government is planning a 'green' strategy for the public sector.
• Exclusive interview with Chris Broad of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (podcast)Posted:17:05 30 Jan 2008In this podcast Cliff Saran speak to Chris Broad, Head of Information Systems and Technology at the Atomic Energy Authority to talk about his decision to migrate from a Novell desktop infrastructure to Windows and the Active Directory.
• Cisco Networkers 2008: Conference Round Up Special (podcast)Posted:14:57 30 Jan 2008John-Paul Kamath's podcast rounds up opinions, tips and news from the Cisco Networkers 2008 conference.
• IT on the London Underground: Podcast interview with Adrian Davey of Tube LinesPosted:11:10 14 Jan 2008Podcast interview with Adrian Davey of Tube Lines on the IT that keeps the London Underground running, including an innovative new project, SmartStep, which aims to improve maintenance of escalators.
• Flexible Working PodcastPosted:13:50 07 Jan 2008Boundaries within and between enterprises are steadily disappearing. Listen to this podcast to find out flexible working could work for your company.
• Virtualisation PodcastPosted:14:52 17 Dec 2007Expectations for change are high, and ICT services need to be extremely quick off the mark to meet them. We need to be able to mix and match services, in real time, to serve up the right resources in all the right places, at the right time, in this dynamic and volatile business environment.
• Wan optimisation: Pfizer rolls out multinational pilotPosted:07:00 19 Nov 2007In this podcast Ron Rapp, associate director in Pfizer's worldwide technology engineering division, discusses the approach Pfizer has taken to Wan optimisation, with Cliff Saran of Computer Weekly.

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• Microsoft's Brad Goldberg on how Live Search will take on GooglePosted:17:07 30 Apr 2008Microsoft's Brad Goldberg on how the company intends Live Search to take on Google. (Telephone interview with ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran.)
• Podcast: Microsoft COO Kevin Turner on how to get a high-paying management job in ITPosted:09:30 17 Apr 2008Microsoft hired Kevin Turner to be its Chief Operating Officer and offered him base salary of $570,000 (£285,000) per year and a $7m (£3.5m) up-front payment in 2005. Kevin Turner, previously CIO at Wal-Mart, gives his top tips in six minutes on how IT staff can make the progression to managers and earn the big bucks.
• Podcast: Round-up 11 April - MPs ask questions about Terminal 5Posted:17:38 11 Apr 2008Weekly IT news round-up from Warwick Ashford at ComputerWeekly.com. This week: The New York Stock Exchange implementing off the shelf technology to cut time taken to access business critical data; and MPs aks questions about what really went wrong at Heathrow’s Terminal 5: people, processes, or IT?
• Podcast: News round-up 31 March - Speedy Hire saves by rationalising Microsoft licencesPosted:10:39 31 Mar 2008Our weekly round-up of UK IT industry news including the top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com last week, and a look ahead to the focus of next week's issue. This week's stories include how tool hire firm Speedy Hire expects to save £6m over the next six years after rationalising the way it licenses Microsoft software.
• IT news round-up podcast for 20 March: Patent warning and workplace bullyingPosted:17:28 20 Mar 2008Weekly round-up of UK IT news. This week, stories include a warning to IBM customers to check they're protected from patent lawsuits by third-party software developers and news that over two-thirds of UK IT workers claim that they have suffered workplace bullying.
• IT news round-up podcast for 17 March: Gateway reviews, share trading platforms and Eurostar's new software implementationPosted:12:20 17 Mar 2008In this week's UK IT news round-up, how the government is using old legislation to keep Gateway reviews secret; a report on how Eurostar has attracted record passengers and boosted sales 15.5% after implementing a revenue management software package; and news of share trading exchange Turquoise which is due to complete the implementation of its IT infrastructure in the first week of April, using off the shelf trading applications.
• IT news round-up podcast for 10 March: National ID card scheme faces new criticismPosted:10:25 10 Mar 2008Weekly IT news round-up podcast for 10 March 2008. Stories this week include fresh criticism of the UK national identity database / ID card scheme from the Crosby report and other sources, and BAA's rejection of RFID technology in favour of barcodes for baggage tracking.
• Podcast: How to get the most out of Microsoft Posted:11:00 29 Feb 2008In this interview Adrian Davey, head of IT at Tubelines, speaks to Cliff Saran about how Tube Lines has made the most from the company's Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.
• IT news round-up podcast: Public sector IT goes green - 25 February 2008Posted:00:00 25 Feb 2008Stories in this week's podcast round-up, presented by Warwick Ashford, include a report from executive editor Tony Collins that the UK government is planning a 'green' strategy for the public sector.
• Virtualisation PodcastPosted:14:52 17 Dec 2007Expectations for change are high, and ICT services need to be extremely quick off the mark to meet them. We need to be able to mix and match services, in real time, to serve up the right resources in all the right places, at the right time, in this dynamic and volatile business environment.
• James Gosling, father of Java, discusses the challenges aheadPosted:10:02 23 Nov 2007Cliff Saran speaks to James Gosling, father of Java and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems.
• The expert view on BPMPosted:09:57 23 Nov 2007Cliff Saran speaks to three experts in Business Process Management (BPM)
• How does Microsoft SQL Server stack up against the open source MySQL database?Posted:09:54 23 Nov 2007In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to Mark Ridley, head of technology at online recruiter Reed.co.uk, about his assessment. Also this week, Nick McGrath, director of platform strategy at Microsoft UK, reveals whether Microsoft still thinks Linux and open source software is a threat to its Windows Server family.
• The economics of Web 2.0 Posted:09:47 23 Nov 2007Unlike the field of dreams of the old days of the Web - building an attractive and useful site is no guarantee that it will foster a community.
• Alexa Bona: virtualisation - the hidden licence costsPosted:09:46 23 Nov 2007In the past applications were run on their own dedicated server hardware. More applications meant more servers. Virtualisation reduces server sprawl, as IT departments can consolidate several applications on a singe box.
• Future trends in software development: interview with Dr Graham Spittle of IBM's Hursley labsPosted:09:42 23 Nov 2007Technology reporter JP Kamath talks software development with IBM’s director at the Hursley laboratory , Dr Graham Spittle.
• What are the key challenges facing Linux and open source systems? Posted:09:26 23 Nov 2007Cliff Saran interviews Alan Cox who used to maintain the Linux kernel and now works at Red Hat about these issues.
• Maximising the benefits from CRM Posted:10:55 10 Aug 2007There are many benefits that CRM can bring to a company. CRM by definition improves business relationships, bolsters customer service and strengthens marketing campaigns which in turn improves an organisation's sales.
• Expert gives SOA lowdown on Computer Weekly podcastPosted:00:00 27 Feb 2007Andy Mulholland, global chief technology officer of consultancy company Capgemini, believes service oriented architecture has a key role to play in the next generation of the web.
• Making the business benefits of security technology reap rewardsPosted:08:48 20 Dec 2006The need for all firms to have an effective, robust and flexible IT security strategy is as important as it ever was. Yet there exists a train of thought that security is a business hygiene factor; that firms simply have to invest in security. However, strategic investment in security technology can actually act as an agent of change for the business.

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• UK IT news round-up podcast for 29 January 2008Posted:12:55 29 Jan 2008This week's stories include a report that Fujitsu may withdraw from the NHS NPfIT and news that Accenture and BAE Systems have withdrawn from the bidding process for the UK's national ID card scheme.
• The commercial benefits of design-led sustainabilityPosted:15:28 28 Jan 2008Interest in environmentally responsible technology has never been higher; a lot of powerful marketing is being done by major IT suppliers’ brands to highlight their efforts in this area and much of what is being done is very laudable, but not particularly sustainable.
• Flexible Working PodcastPosted:13:50 07 Jan 2008Boundaries within and between enterprises are steadily disappearing. Listen to this podcast to find out flexible working could work for your company.
• Construction Opportunities for Mobile ITPosted:11:33 07 Dec 2007Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford speaks to Comit’s strategic alliance manager and former chairman, Neill Pawsey, about the organisation’s history, role and projects past, present and future.
• Is the UK falling behind in the skills race?Posted:09:49 23 Nov 2007There is growing concern that the UK is falling behind in the skills race, which could mean we do not have people with the right skills for the UK to compete effectively in the 21st century knowledge economy.
• Datacentre kit to be given Energy Star green ratingPosted:00:00 13 Mar 2007The US Environment Protection Agency is developing a standard for its Energy Star programme to provide IT directors with a green rating for datacentre technology.
• Making the business benefits of security technology reap rewardsPosted:08:48 20 Dec 2006The need for all firms to have an effective, robust and flexible IT security strategy is as important as it ever was. Yet there exists a train of thought that security is a business hygiene factor; that firms simply have to invest in security. However, strategic investment in security technology can actually act as an agent of change for the business.