Stories this week include: reactions to Fujitsu’s withdrawal from the NHS National Programme for Information Technology; Tesco’s plans to centralise IT applications across its stores worldwide, with a single Cable & Wireless network; and the installation of analytics software to report on performance of individual Boots stores following the Boots merger with Alliance Unichem.
NHS Connecting for Health is terminating its £896m contract with Fujitsu, which formed part of the UK health service's National Programme for IT. Computer Weekly's executive editor Tony Collins has been following the NPfIT since 2002. In this podcast he tells Computer Weekly's chief reporter, Warwick Ashford, what he thinks of this latest news.
Cap 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.
Cliff Saran speaks to Paul Michaels, director of consulting at Metri measurement consulting, about how to steer a software development project in the right direction.
Stories include: London Stock Exchange recoups £40m cost of electronic trading platform in under 12 months; and the UK Identity and Passport Service awards ID card contracts worth 1.5 billion pounds over 10 years.
Bennie Vorster, vice president, IT solutions & technology standards at BMW Group talks about the company's Munich data centre, where using renewable energy resources has reduced cooling costs.
Podcast 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.
The 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.
Powering 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.
Microsoft 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.