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CIO interview: Cathryn Riley, CIO, Aviva
It's been a tough time for Aviva with CEO Andrew Moss forced to step down in a shareholder revolt. But for CIO Cathryn Riley, it’s business as usual. News | 16 May 2012
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Government launches Digital Advisory Board
The government has created a Digital Advisory Board (DAB) of industry IT heads and academics to support its digital by default agenda News | 25 Apr 2012
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Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services
Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly. News | 18 Apr 2012
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The big returns from big data
Organisations can earn an incremental ROI of 241 percent by using big data technology to examine large and complex data sets, according to this report from Nucleus Research. News | 13 Apr 2012
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Transforming IT at HM Revenue & Customs
HMRC CIO, Phil Pavitt, gives the key facts around HM Revenue and Customs’ IT change programme in this PowerPoint presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. News | 04 Apr 2012
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How the public sector can make shared services work
The prize for public sector savings through shared services arrangements is huge. We examine what makes such projects work. News | 02 Apr 2012
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The next wave of digitisation: setting your direction, building your capabilities
Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. News | 02 Apr 2012
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Danone uses SAP to reduce carbon footprint
Heath food maker Danone has used SAP to reduce its carbon footprint by 22%. News | 29 Mar 2012
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Government creates Digital Leaders network
The Cabinet Office has created a Digital Leaders group with representatives from each government department to accelerate its digital agenda. News | 28 Mar 2012
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CIO interview: Rob Ray, FA digital and IT director
Technology is a relatively new addition to the 139-year-old institution of the Football Association, says IT chief Rob Ray. News | 28 Mar 2012
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How to make your network green
Make sure your network and datacentre run efficiently as part of a green networking strategy Feature
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IT matters again
This report from Deloitte argues that businesses are again investing in IT to help them compete with rivals despite the downturn. CIO Briefing
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Gartner: 5 trends that will transform the data centre
The demand for IT as a service, combined with the need to reduce costs, has pushed data centres to the brink of a major transformation. Feature
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Green IT: How to deliver value to your business
IT leaders are under pressure to make sure IT investments are made in the right places and realising that sometimes-elusive goal of measuring tangible value from IT. Feature
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Case study: Telstra International helps WWF enhance its green credentials
WWF-UK is part of the international WWF network (formerly the World Wide Fund for Nature). It is one of the world’s largest independent conservation organisations, working across more than 90 countries to address global threats to people and nature. ... Feature
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Inventing the future of IT
We take a tour of the school of electronics and computer science at Southampton University. Feature
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Yahoo preassembles New York data centre
Scott Noteboom compares the developments in the discipline of datacentre design in recent years to the manufacturing revolution that Henry Ford sparked in... Feature
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Buyer's guide to OpenOffice 3.3: what can it offer to small businesses?
Released this summer with the final product expected soon, the Openoffice 3.3 beta is giving Microsoft's proprietary suite of 'productivity applications' a good run for its money. Feature
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IT Blog Awards 2010: Charity challenge
We’re adding a special category for the IT Blog Awards 2010 to raise funds for a fantastic cause. The ultimate measure of the success of a blog is engagement with its audience – so we want to challenge bloggers and Twitter users to show us how they c... Feature
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Baylor College of Medicine finds an IBM Power Systems solution
By consolidating their legacy servers onto three Power servers and successfully virtualizing a range of critical applications, Baylor was able to reduce their data center footprint from eight racks to three. Feature
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The problem of legacy humans in technology projects
Humans have an annoying habit of resisting change and refusing to conform to the often rigid requirements of a database ontology or software application. Opinion
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Opinion: Is big data just big hype?
If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, big data is the next big thing. So how much is there really to all this big data talk? Opinion
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What computers can't do
Sorry to rain on your parade, but computers can't transform education any more than social media can depose dictators. Opinion
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Making industrialisation work
Industrialisation represents a relentless drive to discover how an activity is optimally done, then doing it in exactly the same way every time. Opinion
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Green technology offers network managers cost-reduction and operational benefits
Cutting carbon emissions and going green is no longer just an option: it is the inevitable future of business in the 21st century. Execs are being urged to junk their Jag and pick up a Prius. Business travellers are encouraged to take the train over ... Opinion
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Interview: Askar Sheibani, CEO of Comtek - People need to change their ways on e-waste
Askar Sheibani, CEO of IT repairs firm Comtek, talks to Computer Weekly about fighting e-waste, the benefits of reuse to the UK economy, and how big manufacturers are fuelling an unsustainable future Opinion
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Don’t just rely on technology to cut emissions, green IT is about people too
Since 2007 the IT sector has reduced annual CO2 emissions by more than 32 million metric tons worldwide, but efforts so far have largely focused on low-hanging fruit… Opinion
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Opinion: Ensuring a happy marriage between IT and the environment
With a comparable carbon footprint to the airline industry, IT has gained a reputation as a major culprit in carbon emissions, writes Brian Murray, principal... Opinion
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Balancing efficiency with resilience
The challenges facing an IT director in balancing multiple simultaneous, and sometime competing, demands, are nothing new, writes Terry Walby, a director... Opinion
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Integrating your Green IT strategy into business objectives
As we count down to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, the green agenda is inevitably coming heavily to the fore. Opinion
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Budget 2012: Ten things you need to know
George Osborne laid out his ambitions to make the Britain “the technology hub of Europe”. This photo story rounds-up the key points affecting tech businesses. Photo Story
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The UKtech50: The top 20
Following on from our successful afternoon yesterday, where we unveiled the most influential people within the UK IT industry, ComputerWeekly brings you the lowdown on the top 20. Photo Story
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In 1966 England won the World Cup and Computer Weekly launched the world's first weekly IT newspaper
After 45 years in print, Computer Weekly, the award-winning title for senior IT decision-makers, is to become a 100% online publication. Here is a celebration of 45 years in print. Photo Story
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Podcast Interview with Macro Wikinomics author Don Tapscott
Don Tapscott talks about how businesses and governments must reinvent themselves to survive the recession Podcast
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Video: James Gardner, chief technology officer, Department for Work and Pensions
James Gardner, chief technology officer at the DWP, is focusing his team on innovation as a way to reduce costs as further public sector cuts are expected in the Comprehensive Spending Review next month. Video
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Podcast: UK business sees business benefits of sustainability, says SAP
SAP is committed to sustainability, which the enterprise software maker sees not only as a moral obligation, but also as a business opportunity. In... Podcast
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Video: SAP delivers sustainability software on Apple's iPad
Enterprise software maker SAP is committed to a strategy of delivering softare on-premise, on-demand and on-device. Video
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Video: Collaboration technology streamlines KPN
KPN is a major IT supplier in the Netherlands and employs 36,000 people worldwide. It is using Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 technology to free its staff up to work and collaborate, whether they are in the office or meeting clients. Video
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Video: How green will my server farm be?
CIOs can expect their energy use to become much more visible to company boards and governments, especially as they build vast data centres to host cloud applications. Video
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Video: A framework for delivering green IT
Paul Lidbetter from the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick about the IVI’s framework for sustainable IT, and the benefits for IT leaders. Video
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The problem of legacy humans in technology projects
Humans have an annoying habit of resisting change and refusing to conform to the often rigid requirements of a database ontology or software application. Opinion
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CIO interview: Cathryn Riley, CIO, Aviva
It's been a tough time for Aviva with CEO Andrew Moss forced to step down in a shareholder revolt. But for CIO Cathryn Riley, it’s business as usual. News
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Government launches Digital Advisory Board
The government has created a Digital Advisory Board (DAB) of industry IT heads and academics to support its digital by default agenda News
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Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services
Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly. News
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The big returns from big data
Organisations can earn an incremental ROI of 241 percent by using big data technology to examine large and complex data sets, according to this report from Nucleus Research. News
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Transforming IT at HM Revenue & Customs
HMRC CIO, Phil Pavitt, gives the key facts around HM Revenue and Customs’ IT change programme in this PowerPoint presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. News
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How the public sector can make shared services work
The prize for public sector savings through shared services arrangements is huge. We examine what makes such projects work. News
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The next wave of digitisation: setting your direction, building your capabilities
Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. News
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Danone uses SAP to reduce carbon footprint
Heath food maker Danone has used SAP to reduce its carbon footprint by 22%. News
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Government creates Digital Leaders network
The Cabinet Office has created a Digital Leaders group with representatives from each government department to accelerate its digital agenda. News
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About IT efficiency and sustainability
IT efficiency and sustainability increasingly go hand-in-hand as goals of an effective IT strategy. But it's not just about the environmental benefits of green IT - improving energy efficiency is key to controlling or reducing IT running costs, and IT efficiency means adopting best practices to run lean, cost-effective IT infrastructure. We examine the tools, trends and technologies that matter to IT managers.
