Computer 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.
Podcast 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.
Interest 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.
Rebecca 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.
Podcast 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.
Nortel 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.
Expectations 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.
It 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.
Investment 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.