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Public Sector IT

Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.

January 2012

Cosy cloud coterie snuggles into top nob govIT jobs
Mark Ballard 27 Jan 2012

Mmmmmits snug at the top. Especially for Julian David, IBM's top UK salesman, who was picked last week to be the next Director General of Intellect, the ICT oligopoly's trade association.It's only ...

Hope shines through crack in lid of open standards coffin
Mark Ballard 12 Jan 2012

Woah there, cowboy. The UK hasn't broken its open standards pledge quite yet.

Microsoft hustled UK retreat on open standards, says leaked report
Mark Ballard 06 Jan 2012

The British government withdrew its open standards policy after lobbying from Microsoft, it has been revealed in a sensitive Cabinet Office brief obtained by Computer Weekly.

SearchCIO

Post COVID-19 strategies for CIOs on leading through crisis

To see their companies through the current crisis, CIOs should consider these five strategies focused around IT budgets, ...

Workplace of the future undergoes last-minute alterations

Future of work plans entailed offices that fostered better employee engagements and productivity, while accommodating a small ...

Return-to-office plans stress safety, security, collaboration

As offices reopen amid myriad safety measures in COVID-19's wake, companies work to maintain continuity and productivity with ...

SearchSecurity

Interconnected critical infrastructure increases cybersecurity risk

Separately managed but interconnected critical infrastructure sectors are not all bound to security requirements and may be at ...

Microsoft fixes Windows Codecs flaws with emergency patches

Microsoft addressed two vulnerabilities, one rated critical and the other rated important, after being alerted by a researcher ...

Snake ransomware poses unique danger to industrial systems

The new ransomware family known as Snake, or Ekans, is designed for organizations with industrial control systems and has already...

SearchNetworking

Tech pros focus on application delivery during pandemic

Tech pros have added security, automation and session capacity to their application delivery infrastructure to support business ...

How the cloud fractures application delivery infrastructure ops

Within a single IT organization, traditional network teams may clash with cloud teams over application delivery infrastructure ...

Why network configuration templates are useful in automation

If a network team automates network configuration templates, it can save time and eliminate redundant activities in order to ...

SearchDataCenter

An introduction to DCIM software metrics and terms

Infrastructure management is no easy task. The right software can help admins track how efficient their server racks and ...

6 steps to prep your organization for ISO 9001 certification

ISO 9001 is a quality management standard. Before your team decides to become certified with an official audit, you should have ...

Honeywell touts quantum computer speed, but how fast is fast?

Honeywell has delivered what it believes is the industry's fastest quantum computer. But analysts say it will take more than ...

SearchDataManagement

Ahana brings PrestoDB SQL query engine to the cloud

Soon after announcing its seed round of funding, Ahana launched commercial support services for the open source federated SQL ...

Confluent enables infinite Kafka scalability in the cloud

Kafka gets data retention boost that can make it easier for users to store event streaming data for long periods of time, which ...

Fivetran raises $100M to advance enterprise data integration

The co-founder and CEO of Fivetran talks about what the vendor is doing to help organizations meet the challenges of enterprise ...