March 2014

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Big Digital Leadership

  This paper by digital strategist Ade McCormack, offers CIOs advice on turning digital technology trends into a business advantage.  Continue Reading

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  CIO Thought Leadership: The Sum of all brands

  This article by Ade McCormack looks at the impact customer-centricity has on organisations.  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Hardware Spend - Post & Courier Firms

  Post & courier firms have an expenditure of £170 per employee on hardware. This is half the national average. For organisations with 1000+ staff the proportion is a third. With the remaining ...  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  The digital CIO: How digital technology will change the role of IT leaders

  We have now reached the point where corporate IT as we know it will succeed or fail  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Mike Lynch attacks HP over "smears" relating to Autonomy acquisition

  Autonomy founder Mike Lynch has accused HP of “smearing” him and “misleading” shareholders, as the bitter war of words over the acquisition of Autonomy continues  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  CIOs to rip up outsourcing rule book

  Almost three-quarters of CIOs will change their IT outsourcing relationships in the next three years  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Budget 2014 – what it means for UK IT

  Chancellor George Osborne has announced his 2014 Budget. These are the highlights and opportunities spotted by Computer Weekly  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Without Care.data “we won’t have a health service for much longer,” says NHS

  Without the care.data programme, the health service will not have a future, said Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS England.  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

  Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Interview: Francisco D’Souza. How do established IT suppliers keep growing?

  The last few years has seen IT budgets decimated and as a result IT suppliers have been forced to change their business models. The emergence of the digital world and globalisation are just two trends shaping the future of IT services  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Sony open sources games tools framework: woos developers to Playstation land

  Sony is making it Authoring Tools Framework product available to programmers for free under the Apache 2.0 open source license.  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Pirated software malware to cost business $491bn in 2014, study shows

  Malware deliberately loaded into pirated or counterfeit software is expected cost enterprises $491bn in 2014  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Firms urged to take tough action on Unix-based cyber attack

  Security researchers have urged businesses to take action on a cyber criminal campaign that has seized control of 25,000+ Unix servers worldwide  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Zeenyx CEO: how to step beyond comfort zones & damage limitation

  The following post is a guest contribution from Brian Le Suer, CEO of Zeenyx Software, Inc -- a company that provides an automated software testing solution that allows teams to build manual and ...  Continue Reading

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Case study: How John Lewis conquered the web

  An in-depth look at the inside story of John Lewis' £40m e-commerce strategy.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Accenture awards Cherie Blair Foundation for Women $1.7m for Rwanda's business owners

  Accenture awards Cherie Blair Foundation for Women $1.7m to train female business owners in Rwanda  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Non-compliant organisations risk being cut off from the PSN

  Organisations not compliant with PSN security after the end-March deadline and who fail to engage for help are “effectively opting out”  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Oracle pushes Exadata servers aggressively against IBM PureSystems

  IDC’s latest market share data for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has shown that Oracle is beginning to grow its server business  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Case study: University of St Andrews squeezes green datacentre into squash court

  University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watt tells how the 600-year-old institution squeezed an energy-efficient datacentre into a squash court  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency  Continue Reading