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• Podcast interview: Nick Leeson says Integrated IT could have prevented Barings collapsePosted:11:26 27 Oct 2009Integrated IT systems could have prevented the collapse of Barings Bank, says Nick Leeson, the trader who hid £826m in losses that led to the bank’s demise in 1995.
• Podcast: Interview with RSA president Art Coviello on addressing cyber threatsPosted:12:00 21 Oct 2009An industry-wide collaborative approach to solving common security problems is the best approach to addressing cyber threats, according to RSA, the security division of EMC.
• Podcast: The business benefits of Web 2.0 and collaboration technologyPosted:10:24 07 Aug 2009The economic downturn has increased substantially the pressures that are applied on today’s businesses, encompassing changes in budget, changes in business methodologies and changes in the places in which firms must trade in order to not just flourish but to just stay in business.
• Exclusive podcast interview: Gary McKinnon's mum on why she believes her son should be tried in the UKPosted:17:16 16 Jan 2009Janis Sharp, mother of self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon, speaks frankly, movingly and exclusively to Computer Week’s Ian Grant about the struggle to stop his extradition to the US for committing what the Americans claim was the greatest military hack of all time.
• Podcast: How your IT support desk can change your business for the better (Next-generation enterprise IT)Posted:12:24 12 Jan 2009The IT service desk is in a great position to identify problem areas relating to IT before other parts of the business are impacted. As such, it needs the internal clout to feed back its conclusions to the rest of the business. If this is done right then a change in IT support strategy can help business save costs, and help IT match more closely to what the business needs.
• Podcast:Boosting efficiency and saving costs with green ITPosted:12:23 05 Dec 2008After years of uncontrolled growth, many datacentres face a crisis as they run into space and power constraints. Even though remedies to the problems exist, current typical business practices concerning datacentres do not encourage the prioritisation of power reduction within one of the most power hungry areas of a business.
• What CIOs need to know now about generation Y and emerging technologiesPosted:12:15 26 Nov 2008Kelly Dempski, technology research director at Accenture's European technology lab in France tells Warwick Ashford what CIOs need to know about Generation Y - the 'Millennials', web 2.0, social networking, and emerging technologies.
• Podcast: Microsoft's BizSpark - software giant offers freeware to start-upsPosted:17:06 21 Nov 2008Microsoft is giving away free development tools and server software to start-ups less than three years old. Cliff Saran find out more about the initiative, called BizSpark, from Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president responsible for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft.
• Podcast: Inside the mind of the cybercriminal - Ian Amit shares insights from his researchPosted:17:00 21 Nov 2008Security researcher Ian Amit was given a keen insight into the working of the cybercriminal world when he found a way into a database of stolen access credentials. Amit, who is the director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems has since drawn up a report on his research. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to him on his recent visit to London and asked him to highlight some of the findings in the report.
• Podcast: MP Alun Michael on Get Safe Online and the fight against e-crimePosted:15:58 18 Nov 2008Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked MP and EURIM e-Crime Group Alun Michael how Get Safe Online fits in with other e-crime initiatives and what role business has to play. Get Safe Online is a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, currently running its fourth annual Get Safe Online Awareness Week.
• Podcast: Get Safe Online MD Tony Neate on why the initiative matters to businessPosted:17:56 17 Nov 2008Get Safe Online, a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, has launched the fourth annual Get Safe Online Week. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Get Safe Oline’s MD Tony Neate to outline the importance of the initiative for small and medium businesses in the UK and detail the role of businesses with Get Safe Online.
• Podcast: Optimising data centre operations (Next-generation enterprise IT)Posted:16:10 17 Nov 2008Brian McKenna, Editor of Computer Weekly magazine, introduces the first article in a “Next-generation enterprise IT” series, sponsored by IBM. In the article “Optimising data centre operations”, Danny Bradbury looks at how data centre managers can optimise operations for maximum efficiency in the context of the downturn.
• Podcast: Getting the best deal from suppliers - tips from Forrrester's Ray WangPosted:14:35 12 Nov 2008SAP's controversial decision to roll out Enterprise Support to all customers dominated the general sessions of the SAP UK & Ireland User Group 2008 conference in London. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to Forrester Research enterprise applications and strategies vice president Ray Wang about this issue and others.
• Podcast: Why CIOs must get out of the backroom and onto the business front line - Tips from Gartner's Tina MunnoPosted:17:32 07 Nov 2008Traditionally CIOs are backroom people but as IT becomes crucial to helping companies respond to market changes they need to get out of the glass room. Ian Grant, senior reporter at Computer Weekly, speaks to Tina Nunno, Gartner senior vice president of research, at Gartner's Symposium in Cannes this week, about what's in it for them if they do.
• Podcast: Gartner - Steve Prentice on IT in the economic downturnPosted:18:38 06 Nov 2008Gartner fellow Steve Prentice talks to Computer Weekly's Ian Grant at the Gartner Symposium / IT Xpo in Cannes, November 2008. Steve discusses what to do when times are hard, from where to cut costs, to where to spend.
• Podcast: Hype or not? Steve Prentice of Gartner on when to adopt new technologiesPosted:18:33 06 Nov 2008Steve Prentice, Gartner fellow, tells Computer Weekly's Ian Grant how to sort the hyped from the hot in the current crop of online technology, from cloud computing to web 2.0.
• Podcast: Grow, Google, grow! Google's future according to GartnerPosted:13:34 05 Nov 2008At the Gartner Symposium in Cannes, Gartner analysts Richard Hunter and Hung LeHong discuss the future of Google, and how they believe Google could grow to become one of the biggest companies in the world.
• Podcast: Martin Sadler speaks to Computer Weekly about the new generation of super-computing PCs and mobile devicesPosted:09:29 05 Nov 2008Martin Sadler, director of HP Labs, predicts a 20,000 fold increase in processing power within the next 20 years using nanotechnology to build a new generation of super-computing PCs and mobile devices.
• Podcast: RSA's Art Coviello on IT security in the credit crunchPosted:17:21 30 Oct 2008ComputerWeekly.com's Warwick Ashford speaks to Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and president of EMC’s security division, RSA, at the RSA Europe 2008 conference in London.
• Podcast: McKinnon, IT outsourcing, and flexible IT procurement - news round-up for w/e 17 OctoberPosted:17:13 17 Oct 2008McKinnon's extradition now unavoidable; the inside track on Specsavers deal for flexible IT procurement with Fujitsu Siemens; the outsourcing dilemma facing today's CIOs - outsourcing to cut costs, or to improve business innovation. All this and more in this week's IT news round-up from ComputerWeekly.com.
• Podcast: IT in the credit crunch - News round-up for w/e 10 OctoberPosted:12:39 13 Oct 2008IT in the credit crunch, and the future of high-speed broadband in the UK, in the latest UK IT news round-up from ComputerWeekly.com, for the week ending 10 October.
• Podcast: Microsoft's approach to cloud computing and other news for w/e 3 OctoberPosted:15:30 06 Oct 2008Warwick Ashford looks at Microsoft's announcement over their new strategy to blur the distinction between software that runs on PCs and servers and applications that run on the internet cloud.
• Podcast: Labour's poor record in IT and other news for w/e 26 SeptemberPosted:11:17 29 Sep 2008Tony Collins discusses Labour's poor record on government IT projects and, separately, the current landmark BSkyB / EDS legal dispute with Warwick Ashford in this week's IT news round-up for the week ending 26 September.
• Podcast: Outsourcing Shell's IT architecture and outsourcing - interview with Johan KreebersPosted:18:21 24 Sep 2008Johan Kreebers of Shell discusses the company's IT architecture and the role of its major outsourcing suppliers with ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran.
• Podcast: Downtime at the LSE and Newcastle trust quits NPfIT - weekly IT news round-up for 12 September 2008Posted:17:01 12 Sep 2008In this week's round-up of IT news affecting the UK, Warwick Ashford talks to Tony Collins about why the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust decided to break away from the £12.7bn National Programme for IT in the NHS. Also: Karl Flinders finds that trading firms are demanding details of the technical problems that brought down certain systems at the London Stock Exchange on Monday.
• Podcast: Locked-down security or insecure productivity? Interview with Richard Jacobs of SophosPosted:16:08 09 Sep 2008The rapid change in the way people in business are using technology is becoming the biggest challenge for IT security managers. The demand for greater working flexibility in the business environment is making it increasingly difficult to keep the networks and data of organisations secure. Sophos CTO Richard Jacobs talks to ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford about tackling the problem.
• Podcast: IT at the Beijing Olympics - Interview with Atos Origin's Jeremy HorePosted:12:47 01 Sep 2008ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford talks to Jeremy Hore, Atos Origin’s chief integrator for the Beijing Olympics IT programme, to find out how things went. Hore led Atos Origin's 400-strong team working on IT systems for the Beijing Olympics. The Atos Origin team was responsible for project management, architectural design, IT security, IT operations, and key software systems.
• Podcast: Interview with the man who bought 'that PC' on eBayPosted:14:57 27 Aug 2008Interview with the man who discovered the personal bank details of more than one million people on a computer bought on eBay last week.
• Podcast: Mergers and the CIO - Weekly news round-up for 22 August 2008Posted:17:59 22 Aug 2008Warwick Ashford rounds up the UK IT industry news highlights for ComputerWeekly.com, including a report from Ian Grant on how a recent spate of company mergers has made life “interesting” for the CIOs at British Airways and Iberia, the Co-op and Somerfield, and EDF and British Energy.
• Interview: Ten-year-old plans career in IT after passing AS level computingPosted:15:39 15 Aug 2008 Ten-year-old Shayan Ahmed, who passed his AS level in computing yesterday, hopes to pursue a career in IT. In a podcast...
• Podcast: Shayan Ahmed passes Computing AS level at age 10Posted:15:22 15 Aug 2008Ten-year-old Shayan Ahmed from Walsall in the West Midlands has become one of the youngest students to pass the Computing AS Level. In this podcast, Rebecca Thomson speaks to Shayan to find out about his experience.
• Ten-year-old passes Computing AS LevelPosted:16:24 13 Aug 2008 A ten-year-old boy has become one of the youngest students to pass the Computing AS Level. Shayan Ahmed from Walsall in the West Midlands was awarded...
• Podcast: Nokia S40 hack - interview with the man who discovered Nokia Java vulnerabilityPosted:12:40 13 Aug 2008Nokia S40 hack: Cliff Saran interviews the security researcher who discovered the Nokia and Java vulnerability in Nokia Series 40 phones.
• Podcast: Why the IT industry can't escape the credit crunchPosted:12:03 12 Aug 2008Leading technology industry analyst Richard Holway tells Mark Watts that the IT sector will be hit by the effects of the credit crunch.
• Podcast: My country let me down, says hacker Gary McKinnonPosted:16:30 30 Jul 2008My country has disappointed me, says Gary McKinnon in this exclusive podcast interview with Computer Weekly
• Podcast: Outsourcing and the credit crunch in this week's news round-upPosted:16:00 28 Jul 2008Hot topics covered in this week's round-up of the latest IT news are Westminster City Council outsources all IT services; how IT suppliers are avoiding the worst effects of the credit crunch; and Royal Mail's future IT spending plans
• Podcast: The inside view of the BCS IT Industry AwardsPosted:17:46 25 Jul 2008As the closing date for entering the British Computer Society’s IT Industry Awards approaches, Warwick Ashford talks to two of the moderators of this year's awards, to find out more about the selection process.
• Podcast: IT news round-up 18 July - Job losses at SunPosted:17:40 18 Jul 2008Job losses at Sun and other IT industry news of the week, on 18 July 2008.
• Round-up for 4 July 2008: Can IT help to reduce corporate carbon footprints? Posted:17:28 04 Jul 2008Can IT help to reduce corporate carbon footprints?
• Podcast: News round-up for 1 July 2008 - Government data handling after the Poynter reportPosted:10:30 02 Jul 2008Highlights include an exploration of proposed changes to Government data security measures following two recent reports criticising HM Revenue and Customs for its poor handling of data, which resulted in the loss of two computer discs containing 25-million child; and the trend among multinational companies towards outsourcing to single voice and data services suppliers.

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• Podcast: Gartner - Steve Prentice on IT in the economic downturnPosted:18:38 06 Nov 2008Gartner fellow Steve Prentice talks to Computer Weekly's Ian Grant at the Gartner Symposium / IT Xpo in Cannes, November 2008. Steve discusses what to do when times are hard, from where to cut costs, to where to spend.
• Podcast: IT in the credit crunch - News round-up for w/e 10 OctoberPosted:12:39 13 Oct 2008IT in the credit crunch, and the future of high-speed broadband in the UK, in the latest UK IT news round-up from ComputerWeekly.com, for the week ending 10 October.
• Podcast: Nokia S40 hack - interview with the man who discovered Nokia Java vulnerabilityPosted:12:40 13 Aug 2008Nokia S40 hack: Cliff Saran interviews the security researcher who discovered the Nokia and Java vulnerability in Nokia Series 40 phones.
• Podcast: IP address shortages - Geoff Huston says prepare to pay for your online addressPosted:14:44 24 Jun 2008In this podcast, Cliff Saran speaks to Huston about how a market is likely to emerge for IPv4 addresses, and the switchover to IPv6.
• Podcast: IT news 20 June - IPv6, Internet meltdown and the iPhone 3GPosted:16:59 23 Jun 2008Internet meltdown could follow if you don't make the switch to IPv6, says Cliff Saran in discussion with Warwick Ashford in this week's UK information technology news round-up. Also: is the iPhone 3G enterprise ready?
• 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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• Podcast interview: Nick Leeson says Integrated IT could have prevented Barings collapsePosted:11:26 27 Oct 2009Integrated IT systems could have prevented the collapse of Barings Bank, says Nick Leeson, the trader who hid £826m in losses that led to the bank’s demise in 1995.
• Podcast: Interview with RSA president Art Coviello on addressing cyber threatsPosted:12:00 21 Oct 2009An industry-wide collaborative approach to solving common security problems is the best approach to addressing cyber threats, according to RSA, the security division of EMC.
• Podcast: The business benefits of Web 2.0 and collaboration technologyPosted:10:24 07 Aug 2009The economic downturn has increased substantially the pressures that are applied on today’s businesses, encompassing changes in budget, changes in business methodologies and changes in the places in which firms must trade in order to not just flourish but to just stay in business.
• Podcast: Microsoft claims increase in product security in Trustworthy Computing updatePosted:10:00 09 Mar 2009Microsoft issues security updates for its products every month, despite the introduction of its Trustworthy Computing initiative to raise security standards in its software.
• Podcast: Moving collaboration to the next levelPosted:09:59 03 Mar 2009The risk of slackening sales is prompting a closer focus on the cost side of the business with greater efficiency the name of the game. Now, the business is looking towards IT and asking, "OK, what can you do to help us get through this downturn?"
• Podcast: BPM and SOA for business agility (Next-generation enterprise IT)Posted:11:24 09 Jan 2009Translating business needs into software outcomes has long been an Achilles heel for the IT industry. Whether the approach has been to write bespoke applications or find a best-fit package, the result is normally an imperfect reflection of what was required. More seriously, the resulting systems are a static reflection of the needs of a particular moment in time. The weakness of this approach comes when a business needs to radically alter the way it operates, whether in response to changing market conditions or simply a desire to reinvent itself. When the systems that supposedly support the business can't be changed in a timely or cost-effective enough way to make that change happen, the business finds itself set in electronic concrete.
• Podcast: How to use Web 2.0 at work (Next generation enterprise IT)Posted:13:19 18 Dec 2008The second in a series on next generation enterprise IT, produced in association with IBM. Web 2.0 - beyond the hype, how can it benefit enterprise?
• What CIOs need to know now about generation Y and emerging technologiesPosted:12:15 26 Nov 2008Kelly Dempski, technology research director at Accenture's European technology lab in France tells Warwick Ashford what CIOs need to know about Generation Y - the 'Millennials', web 2.0, social networking, and emerging technologies.
• Podcast: Microsoft's BizSpark - software giant offers freeware to start-upsPosted:17:06 21 Nov 2008Microsoft is giving away free development tools and server software to start-ups less than three years old. Cliff Saran find out more about the initiative, called BizSpark, from Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president responsible for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft.
• Podcast: Hype or not? Steve Prentice of Gartner on when to adopt new technologiesPosted:18:33 06 Nov 2008Steve Prentice, Gartner fellow, tells Computer Weekly's Ian Grant how to sort the hyped from the hot in the current crop of online technology, from cloud computing to web 2.0.
• Podcast: RSA's Art Coviello on IT security in the credit crunchPosted:17:21 30 Oct 2008ComputerWeekly.com's Warwick Ashford speaks to Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and president of EMC’s security division, RSA, at the RSA Europe 2008 conference in London.
• Podcast: Microsoft's approach to cloud computing and other news for w/e 3 OctoberPosted:15:30 06 Oct 2008Warwick Ashford looks at Microsoft's announcement over their new strategy to blur the distinction between software that runs on PCs and servers and applications that run on the internet cloud.
• Podcast: Downtime at the LSE and Newcastle trust quits NPfIT - weekly IT news round-up for 12 September 2008Posted:17:01 12 Sep 2008In this week's round-up of IT news affecting the UK, Warwick Ashford talks to Tony Collins about why the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust decided to break away from the £12.7bn National Programme for IT in the NHS. Also: Karl Flinders finds that trading firms are demanding details of the technical problems that brought down certain systems at the London Stock Exchange on Monday.
• Podcast: Locked-down security or insecure productivity? Interview with Richard Jacobs of SophosPosted:16:08 09 Sep 2008The rapid change in the way people in business are using technology is becoming the biggest challenge for IT security managers. The demand for greater working flexibility in the business environment is making it increasingly difficult to keep the networks and data of organisations secure. Sophos CTO Richard Jacobs talks to ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford about tackling the problem.
• Podcast: Chrome, banking mergers, rural broadband and other IT news for w/e 5 SeptemberPosted:17:23 05 Sep 2008Weekly round-up of IT news from ComputerWeekly.com. This week's highlight include Google Chrome - of course - plus rural broadband access, enterprise resource planning at Irwin's Bakery, and the IT impact of Commerzbank's plans to purchase Dresdner Bank, making savings through headcount reductions post-sale.
• Podcast: Google Apps, software licensing and the IT news for w/e 29 AugustPosted:17:27 29 Aug 2008Round-up of the latest news in IT including: why software producers are getting tougher on users; Google Apps in the enterprise and Google's 10th birthday.
• Podcast: IT news 20 June - IPv6, Internet meltdown and the iPhone 3GPosted:16:59 23 Jun 2008Internet meltdown could follow if you don't make the switch to IPv6, says Cliff Saran in discussion with Warwick Ashford in this week's UK information technology news round-up. Also: is the iPhone 3G enterprise ready?
• Podcast: Accenture CIO Frank Modruson on how to exploit the power of social networking within the businessPosted:17:54 04 Jun 2008Accenture's CIO Frank Modruson talks to Computer Weekly's Bill Goodwin about Accenture's moves to exploit social networking technology within the business to maximise employees' collaborative potential.
• Podcast: IT department facing extinction, says CapGemini CTOPosted:15:49 28 May 2008Cap Gemini CTO Carl Bate explains to Computer Weekly's Karl Flinders why the IT department - at least in its current form - will soon be a thing of the past.
• Podcast: Software development - navigating the pitfallsPosted:12:19 28 May 2008Cliff Saran speaks to Paul Michaels, director of consulting at Metri measurement consulting, about how to steer a software development project in the right direction.
• 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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• Podcast: Interview with RSA president Art Coviello on addressing cyber threatsPosted:12:00 21 Oct 2009An industry-wide collaborative approach to solving common security problems is the best approach to addressing cyber threats, according to RSA, the security division of EMC.
• Podcast: Optimising data centre operations (Next-generation enterprise IT)Posted:16:10 17 Nov 2008Brian McKenna, Editor of Computer Weekly magazine, introduces the first article in a “Next-generation enterprise IT” series, sponsored by IBM. In the article “Optimising data centre operations”, Danny Bradbury looks at how data centre managers can optimise operations for maximum efficiency in the context of the downturn.
• Podcast: RSA's Art Coviello on IT security in the credit crunchPosted:17:21 30 Oct 2008ComputerWeekly.com's Warwick Ashford speaks to Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and president of EMC’s security division, RSA, at the RSA Europe 2008 conference in London.
• Podcast: Microsoft's approach to cloud computing and other news for w/e 3 OctoberPosted:15:30 06 Oct 2008Warwick Ashford looks at Microsoft's announcement over their new strategy to blur the distinction between software that runs on PCs and servers and applications that run on the internet cloud.
• Podcast: Locked-down security or insecure productivity? Interview with Richard Jacobs of SophosPosted:16:08 09 Sep 2008The rapid change in the way people in business are using technology is becoming the biggest challenge for IT security managers. The demand for greater working flexibility in the business environment is making it increasingly difficult to keep the networks and data of organisations secure. Sophos CTO Richard Jacobs talks to ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford about tackling the problem.
• Interview: Ten-year-old plans career in IT after passing AS level computingPosted:15:39 15 Aug 2008 Ten-year-old Shayan Ahmed, who passed his AS level in computing yesterday, hopes to pursue a career in IT. In a podcast...
• Podcast: Banking technology update with Avivah Litan from GartnerPosted:15:07 24 Jun 2008Avivah Litan, information and security analyst at research firm Gartner, talks about the effectiveness of chip and pin bank card technology in combating fraud and the risks that may result from the introduction of faster payments.
• Podcast: IT news 20 June - IPv6, Internet meltdown and the iPhone 3GPosted:16:59 23 Jun 2008Internet meltdown could follow if you don't make the switch to IPv6, says Cliff Saran in discussion with Warwick Ashford in this week's UK information technology news round-up. Also: is the iPhone 3G enterprise ready?
• Podcast: Columbia space shuttle data recoveryPosted:13:24 13 May 2008Podcast interview with Jeff Pederson of data recovery operations at Kroll Ontrack about the task of recovering data from the hard disc retrieved from the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
• 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.