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27 January 2015

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- CIO interview: Enterprise Rent-A-Car European IT director Jeff King
- Two resolutions every IT leader should make in 2015

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- FT sold on cloud benefits
  20 January 2015 Includes:
  - House of Fraser’s journey to multi-channel innovation
  - The legal issues facing UK businesses from wearable technology
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- The internet-enabled car of the future
  13 January 2015 Includes:
  - Price cuts and posturing in the public cloud war
  - CIO interview: Mercedes AMG Petronas IT director on the need for speed in IT
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- MPs give Post Office the cold shoulder
  16 December 2014 Includes:
  - Competition essential if retail banks are to modernise their IT
  - The five trends shaping the future of work
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- The most influential people in UK IT 2014
  09 December 2014 Includes:
  - The business challenges and benefits of identity and access management
  - HP is ‘coming back strong’, says CEO Meg Whitman
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- The future of networking
  02 December 2014 Includes:
  - How resilient is the public cloud?
  - Pernod Ricard toasts centralised data backup and cloud disaster recovery
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- Networking keeps Heathrow flying high
  25 November 2014 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Ernest Gmünder, Touring Club Suisse
  - Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots
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- Cloud providers are coming to Europe
  18 November 2014 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Andy Wolfe, CIO, Shop Direct
  - IT stress testing can fix banks' legacy problems, say experts
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- Migrating away from Windows Server 2003
  11 November 2014 Includes:
  - Users warned over 'aggressive' Oracle software licensing tactics
  - IBM India staff reductions are sign of shift in outsourcing sector
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- CW Europe - November 2014 Edition
  November 2014 Includes:
  - Timberland focuses on online customer experience
  - Polish banking, energy and public services weigh up benefits of big data applications
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- Enterprises push for open standards
  04 November 2014 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Stephen Hale, head of digital, Department of Health
  - HMRC to save £200m per year by scrapping Aspire outsourcing deal
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- Securing critical industrial systems
  28 October 2014 Includes:
  - Argos interview: “Stores still very much part of IT strategy"
  - Product survey 2014: Hybrid flash arrays from the big six
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- Managing digital projects
  21 October 2014 Includes:
  - Mobile revolution brings user experience testers to the fore
  - P&O Ferries launches multichannel website in legacy estate overhaul
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- Why has HP split?
  14 October 2014 Includes:
  - Cyber Essentials for public sector IT suppliers: pros and cons
  - CIO interview: Darrell Sturley, deputy CIO, University of Oxford
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- The future of digital government in the UK
  07 October 2014 Includes:
  - Interview: Chi Onwurah, Labour shadow Cabinet Office minister
  - Why you should drop staff who are not cloud savvy
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- Hacking IT from the inside
  30 September 2014 Includes:
  - Case study: OpenStack hybrid cloud powers CERN’s experiments with universe
  - Huawei ploughs $4bn into fixed broadband research
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- Nato and business join forces to tackle cyber security threats
  23 September 2014 Includes:
  - Hurdles line AWS’s path into public sector
  - TfL contactless payments go live
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- The IT challenges facing an independent Scotland
  16 September 2014 Includes:
  - How to evolve desktop IT beyond Windows 7
  - Balancing user desires with business needs
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- How cloud is saving lives
  09 September 2014 Includes:
  - Can IT change the course of history? The story of Graham Tottle, the IT guy trapped in Iraq
  - Case study: Startup Versarien moves to SAP cloud
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- Can national security and privacy co-exist?
  26 August 2014 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Rorie Devine, CTO, Hailo
  - How wearable tech, big data analytics and cloud help in Parkinson’s disease research
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- Cultivating IT Talent
  19 August 2014 Includes:
  - Morrison Utility Services fills in holes faster with ETAdirect
  - Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships
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- The rise of home automation
  12 August 2013 Includes:
  - Case Study: Frontline builds contact centre business on Callmedia
  - How to make IT governance work
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- Driving virtualisation into pole position in Formula One
  05 August 2014 Includes:
  - AWS feels the pressure of cloud competition
  - Case study: Startup Versarien moves to SAP cloud
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- Going mobile in financial services
  29 July 2014 Includes:
  - Why businesses need brilliant social media
  - Arctic University warms classrooms with waste datacentre heat
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- Time to get serious about endpoint security
  22 July 2014 Includes:
  - CIO Interview: Simon Hill, Caravan Club
  - Can UK fintech startups survive outside London?
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- Time for an upgrade? Why you should buy IT now
  15 July 2014 Includes:
  - Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT
  - CW500: Digital customer engagement
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- The most influential women in UK IT 2014
  08 July 2014 Includes:
  - Is the government right to focus on buying IT from SMEs?
  - Future of in-house datacentres in the cloud era
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- Supporting Apple in the enterprise
  01 July 2014 Includes:
  - Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud
  - Navigating the digital torrent
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- Betting on World Cup success
  24 June 2014 Includes:
  - Just Eat builds in-house IT workforce in Ukraine
  - CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup
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- The Met Office turns to open source
  17 June 2014 Includes:
  - The challenges of going digital at the DVLA
  - Met Office swaps Oracle for PostgreSQL
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- The case for a European cloud market
  10 June 2014 Includes:
  - Information security as a business enabler
  - CIO interview: Brad Dowden, Adecco
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- How big data brings big donations for charities
  03 June 2014 Includes:
  - Can Tech City deliver reliable fast internet for startup businesses?
  - Case study: Balfour Beatty extends Fujitsu contract to support messaging
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- Targeting the digital customer
  27 May 2014 Includes:
  - More women needed in recruitment process, say industry experts
  - How government and the IT industry need to work together better
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- The future of networks
  20 May 2014 Includes:
  - Case study: How the BBC uses cloud to process media for iPlayer
  - CIO interview: The IT behind the academic cycle
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- Retail's data challenge
  13 May 2014 Includes:
  - Case study: How big data powers the eBay customer journey
  - Datacentre lessons learnt from Heartbleed bug
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- The problems of legacy IT in banking
  06 May 2014 Includes:
  - Managing Wi-Fi and mobility
  - Employee monitoring: How to avoid the legal pitfalls
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- Adapting to life after Heartbleed
  22 April 2014 Includes:
  - Royal Bank of Scotland maps transaction supply chain
  - Greenpeace singles out datacentre firms for lack of energy efficiency
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- Spies in the VPN
  15 April Includes:
  - Windows XP support ends: Experts explain what users should do next
  - Video networking technology allows NHS to save time, money – and lives
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- Cloud wars
  08 April 2014 Includes:
  - Is the government doing enough to encourage digital international talent to the UK?
  - How London Met improves students’ job prospects with IBM Academic Skills Cloud
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- Where next for the NHS Care.data programme?
  01 April 2014 Includes:
  - Case study: University Technical College Reading closes digital divide with help from Fujitsu
  - Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era
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- Get kids coding
  25 March 2014 Includes:
  - Does Gigaclear’s broadband win show new direction for BDUK?
  - Salesforce.com: a CIO's friend or foe?
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- Boost productivity with collaboration technology
  18 March 2014 Includes:
  - No more email? Why companies are turning to collaboration technology
  - Using public sector open data to benefit local communities
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- Making data flow freely
  11 March 2014 Includes:
  - BAE builds the business into ERP team for Infor implementation
  - CIO Interview: Norfolk County Council's Tom Baker on using data to improve public services
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- How IT brings aid to refugees
  04 March 2014 Includes:
  - Are businesses turning to Windows Phone instead of BlackBerry?
  - Is second-hand software illegal?
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- Banking with dinosaurs – the legacy IT crisis in financial services
  25 February 2014 Includes:
  - Can wearable technology fit the enterprise agenda?
  - Rubber and plastics converter Miers chooses Business One on Hana
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- Swapping notepads for iPads – creating a digital police force
  18 February 2014 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Joan Miller director of Parliamentary ICT
  - Can elephants dance in the cloud?
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- Microsoft’s new CEO and his plans for the future
  11 February 2014 Includes:
  - Jaguar Land Rover builds data sharing infrastructure
  - CIO interview: Balfour Beatty CIO Danny Reeves on constructing a new bottom line
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- Rural broadband roll-out row
  04 February 2014 Includes:
  - Case study: Berkshire NHS adopts 4G for home visits
  - CIO interview: Peter O’Rourke, director of IT, University Campus Suffolk
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- Tablets in the workplace
  28 January 2014 Includes:
  - Do you need tablets in your workplace?
  - Minerals firm Imerys upgrades IFS ERP as economy lifts
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- The IT risks facing Universal Credit
  21 January 2014 Includes:
  - Predictions 2014: How CIOs plan to spend their 2014 IT budget
  - Lotus F1 Team invests in converged datacentre to support race strategy
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- What is being said about you on social media?
  14 January 2014 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Angela Morrison, chief information officer, Direct Line
  - Case study: Yellow Pages digitises records for the web
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- IT giants go north for cool datacentres
  07 January 2014 Includes:
  - Where is Satyam now? Well, it’s not Satyam for a start
  - CIO interview: Paolo Cinelli, CIO, Ikea
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- Can BlackBerry restore its business appeal?
  17 December 2013 Includes:
  - UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA
  - How endemic is IT underinvestment in UK retail banking?
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- The most influential people in UK IT
  10 December 2013 Includes:
  - Realising the benefits of a totally connected world
  - Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising stars 2013
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- The future of local government IT
  03 December 2013 Includes:
  - Is this the future for local government IT?
  - Consumer-facing firms need two CIOs and multi-speed development
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- Embracing wearable technology
  26 November 2013 Includes:
  - City University London explores multi-sensory human communication via mobile
  - CIO Interview: Ann-Marie Rafferty, head of IT, Access, on partnership models
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- Software defined networking explodes
  19 November 2013 Includes:
  - Shining a light on The OpenDaylight Project
  - A guide to WebRTC
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- Software testing and code quality
  12 November 2013 Includes:
  - SQLi has long been unsolved, but has that finally changed?
  - IT may not have to worry about mobile device backup
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- Windows Server 2012 R2 reviewed
  05 November 2013 Includes:
  - The commercial reality of Huawei’s trust issues
  - RSA says security needs to change, but what does that mean?
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- Innovation in banking
  29 October 2013 Includes:
  - Is Microsoft's hybrid cloud a better choice compared to VMware?
  - CIO interview: Dan West, group IT director, New Look
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- How technology is making business more human
  22 October 2013 Includes:
  - 802.11ac is powerful – but don’t get ahead of yourself
  - VDI thin clients save Hertz time, support and energy across Europe
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- What if your cloud provider shuts down?
  15 October 2013 View Issue
- High street retailers fight back with multi-channel IT
  08 October 2013 Includes:
  - What ever happened to the paper-free office?
  - Interview: Matt Atkinson, CMO, Tesco
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- IT for talent management
  01 October 2013 Includes:
  - CIOs must be prepared for the unexpected
  - How to make IT professionals more effective and happy in their jobs
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- Where next for Dell?
  24 September 2013 Includes:
  - Case study: Macmillan turns to social media to ease restructuring
  - Benefits of mobile collaboration
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- The cross-platform app development challenge
  17 September 2013 Includes:
  - How digitisation is shaking up IT outsourcing
  - How networks and data win Formula One races for Mercedes AMG Petronas
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- What buying Nokia means for Microsoft customers
  10 September 2013 Includes:
  - Case study: Seadrill migrates in-house datacentre to virtual private cloud in six months
  - How to appoint a new outsourcing supplier
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- The internet of things – the devices are taking over
  27 August 2013 Includes:
  - Attackers are in the network, now what?
  - Lancashire NHS Trust deploys Yellowfin mobile BI to enhance care
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- Mixing work and play – how corporate applications can learn from computer games
  20 August 2013 Includes:
  - Case study: Birmingham rolls out free public Wi-Fi
  - CIO interview: Mark Austin, Bedford Hospital
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- Is the UK smart meter project doomed to fail?
  13 August 2013 Includes:
  - Business skills key to CISO’s survival
  - The ideology of hacking
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- Tech startups inspiring retail IT innovations
  6 August 2013 Includes:
  - Windows XP migration: Reassess your desktop IT strategy
  - Case Study: Johnson Matthey consolidates Active Directory with Dell
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- The threat within – balancing security and employee privacy
  30 July 2013 Includes:
  - Anglian Water opens floodgates for external data
  - Insider threat: Balancing security with privacy
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- The need for data speed
  23 July 2013 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Paul Freemantle, IT director, Arqiva
  - Will cloud services follow the evolution of banking?
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- Cloud takes to the stage at the Royal Opera House
  16 July 2013 Includes:
  - CIO interview: Steve Monaghan, IT & e-commerce director, Waterstones
  - Why agile development failed for Universal Credit
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- The most influential women in UK IT
  9 July 2013 Includes:
  - How BP made its IT future-ready with a hybrid cloud infrastructure
  - Reclaiming the role of the CIO
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- Business value from the internet of things
  2 July 2013 Includes:
  - What’s to be done about data breach discovery?
  - Giving UK SMEs the digital tools they need
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