IT 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.
Warwick 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.
Tony 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.
In 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.
The 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.
ComputerWeekly’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.
Warwick 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.