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• February 08, 2012 08 Feb'12

  CIO interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury’s IT chief talks about why in-house IT works better than outsourcing and how to double revenue without doubling IT spend.

• February 07, 2012 07 Feb'12

  More than half of government projects behind schedule

  More than half of major government projects are behind schedule, according to the head of Whitehall's Major Projects Authority.

• February 03, 2012 03 Feb'12

  St. Helens and Knowsley NHS trust signs £1.3m storage deal

  St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.3m deal with EMC as part of its five-year plan to overhaul its storage infrastructure.

• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  Cloud solves IT innovation and maintenance imbalance

  CIOs can rebalance the scenario of spending 80% of their budget on maintenance and 20% on innovation if they harness cloud computing.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Essex County Council invests £15m in IT to cut costs

  Essex County Council is pumping £15m into an IT infrastructure upgrade expected to create efficiency savings of £7m per year, says CIO David Wilde.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Shell enterprise MDM foundation proof of concept disturbs rulebook

  Shell has laid a foundation for enterprise master data management, choosing SAP MDM over Microsoft. The major lesson was that IT can build an enterprise MDM system to which the business will come.

• November 24, 2011 24 Nov'11

  How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

  Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.

• October 14, 2011 14 Oct'11

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympics

  With less than 10 months to go, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell is fully focused on the task of delivering a project that simply cannot miss its deadline.

• April 20, 2011 20 Apr'11

  Infosec 2011: Policy is only way to deal with social media, say security professionals

  The best and only way organisations can deal with the use of social media is through robust policies and user aware campaigns

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud

  The founding father of the free software movement tells Computer Weekly why government just doesn't "get it"

• July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07

  SaaS: Tricks and traps of uploading data in bulk

  The dark side of SaaS is losing control over your data. Learn how to stay in control while uploading data in bulk in this new report from Info-Tech Research.

• May 24, 2007 24 May'07

  Data retrieval strategies: Retrieving email and database archives overview

  This overview focuses on the considerations involved in email and database archives with an emphasis on retention and search to meet legal discovery requirements.