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IT strategy

• Technology review of 2009

  Budgets have been tight, spending has been cut, but the IT industry has not stood still while users tightened their purse strings.  Continue Reading

• Copenhagen summit: How to reduce your IT carbon footprint

  The green credentials of IT industry are set to come under scrutiny at the Copenhagen conference.  Continue Reading

• Taking the complexity out of communications costs

  Large enterprises are no strangers to the benefits of mobility. Deployments of Blackberry handsets, PDAs or other smartphone devices to management, sales or field staff are almost commonplace. But how do you negotiate the best telco deal? Mia ...  Continue Reading

• Case study: Haysmacintyre mobilises the enterprise

  UK chartered accountancy firm Haysmacintyre has a number of years' experience in mobilising its enterprise data, communications and people to provide financial and other business support services predominantly for entrepreneurial businesses,.  Continue Reading

• Harnessing the full value of identity management

  Identity management is about more than just access; it’s about delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. Indeed, the power of having an integrated, centralised definition of the roles and data access levels held by each...  Continue Reading

• European Commission review and harmonisation of consumer acquis

  Following a review of EU consumer law, the European Commission has published a draft directive entitled the Consumer Rights Directive, which could become law in the UK as early as 2011  Continue Reading

• ISACA: Users reject Trusted Computing because of privacy and security concerns

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• BCS: Cost of support outweighs the benefits

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• ISSA UK: ‘Treacherous Computing’ can constrain legitimate software

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• Constructing an IT policy for Generation Y

  As technology providers and enterprises study Generation Y and its appetite for advanced technology, CIOs would be well advised to evaluate technologies on their merits, rather than trying to second guess what this future generation of employees ...  Continue Reading

• CIO Profile: Joe Harley, Department of Work and Pensions

  Few IT professionals will have been tested as much during the recession as Joe Harley, IT director general and CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions.  Continue Reading

• Case Study: How the Met Office supercomputer offsets its carbon footprint

  When the Met Office's latest £30m supercomputer was switched on in May it drew a fair amount of criticism, and a cloud of suspicion has hung over the organisation's Exeter-based headquarters ever since. Isn't it odd, critics asked, that an ...  Continue Reading

• Top five issues in managing unpopular change

  The insidious phrase "headcount reduction" hangs over many business transformation projects like an executioner with a fake tan. Management-speak can't hide the fact that "seeking efficiency improvements through new technology" often translates into...  Continue Reading

• Structures are a diamond's (and other crystal's) best friend!

  CRYSTALS are objects of profound mystery. That's not because they channel occult energies, or hold misty hints of the future in their limpid depths. Their puzzle is much more prosaic: why are they as they are?  Continue Reading

• The future of digital cameras - memory is the new iris?

  How can image sensors - the most complicated and expensive part of a digital camera - be made cheaper and less complex? Easy: take the lid off a memory chip and use that instead.  Continue Reading