The economic downturn has increased substantially the pressures that are applied on today’s businesses, encompassing changes in budget, changes in business methodologies and changes in the places in which firms must trade in order to not just flourish but to just stay in business.
Janis Sharp, mother of self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon, speaks frankly, movingly and exclusively to Computer Week’s Ian Grant about the struggle to stop his extradition to the US for committing what the Americans claim was the greatest military hack of all time.
The IT service desk is in a great position to identify problem areas relating to IT before other parts of the business are impacted. As such, it needs the internal clout to feed back its conclusions to the rest of the business. If this is done right then a change in IT support strategy can help business save costs, and help IT match more closely to what the business needs.
After years of uncontrolled growth, many datacentres face a crisis as they run into space and power constraints. Even though remedies to the problems exist, current typical business practices concerning datacentres do not encourage the prioritisation of power reduction within one of the most power hungry areas of a business.
Kelly Dempski, technology research director at Accenture's European technology lab in France tells Warwick Ashford what CIOs need to know about Generation Y - the 'Millennials', web 2.0, social networking, and emerging technologies.
Microsoft is giving away free development tools and server software to start-ups less than three years old. Cliff Saran find out more about the initiative, called BizSpark, from Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president responsible for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft.
Security researcher Ian Amit was given a keen insight into the working of the cybercriminal world when he found a way into a database of stolen access credentials. Amit, who is the director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems has since drawn up a report on his research. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to him on his recent visit to London and asked him to highlight some of the findings in the report.
Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked MP and EURIM e-Crime Group Alun Michael how Get Safe Online fits in with other e-crime initiatives and what role business has to play. Get Safe Online is a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, currently running its fourth annual Get Safe Online Awareness Week.
Get Safe Online, a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, has launched the fourth annual Get Safe Online Week. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Get Safe Oline’s MD Tony Neate to outline the importance of the initiative for small and medium businesses in the UK and detail the role of businesses with Get Safe Online.
Brian McKenna, Editor of Computer Weekly magazine, introduces the first article in a “Next-generation enterprise IT” series, sponsored by IBM. In the article “Optimising data centre operations”, Danny Bradbury looks at how data centre managers can optimise operations for maximum efficiency in the context of the downturn.