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IT efficiency and sustainability

• October 23, 2012 23 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gavin Walker chief information officer at NATS

  Gavin Walker, CIO of NATS, talks about how a vendor-neutral approach is key to successful IT, and why huge outsourcing contracts are the enemy

• October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12

  RBS spends £80m to link its multiple mainframes better

  The Royal Bank of Scotland will dedicate £80m of its massive IT budget to eliminate problems caused by its mainframe infrastructure

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Cabinet Office blacklists Fujitsu from government IT contract tenders

  The Cabinet Office has banned Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for public sector IT contracts as they constitute too high a risk

• September 04, 2012 04 Sep'12

  UK Border Agency ordered to crack down on bogus student visas

  The UKBA must crack down on bogus student visas ahead of the roll-out of its troubled e-Borders program, MPs have urged

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  CIO interview: Sally Howes, National Audit Office

  Sally Howes, CIO at the National Audit Office, talks about how the NAO hopes to perform more IT health checks and fewer project post mortems

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  Amazon to open London development centre

  Amazon today announced a new hub in central London to focus on the development of digital media products

• July 16, 2012 16 Jul'12

  Home Office creates private police ICT company

  The Home Office has created a private firm to manage police IT after the the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) was abolished

• July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12

  Whitehall could save £33bn with big data analytics, says Policy Exchange

  Government could save £33bn a year applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a report from the Policy Exchange

• May 16, 2012 16 May'12

  CIO interview: Cathryn Riley, CIO, Aviva

  It's been a tough time for Aviva with CEO Andrew Moss forced to step down in a shareholder revolt. But for CIO Cathryn Riley, it’s business as usual.

• April 18, 2012 18 Apr'12

  Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services

  Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly.

• March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12

  Danone uses SAP to reduce carbon footprint

  Heath food maker Danone has used SAP to reduce its carbon footprint by 22%.

• March 07, 2012 07 Mar'12

  Systems integrators 'charge more in paperwork than SMEs do in delivery’

  A systems integrator asked for more money from the government for an IT product proposal than an SME was able to deliver the actual service for.

• 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.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  SAP on track to achieve 2011 greenhouse gas emissions target

  Enterprise software maker SAP decreased greenhouse gas emissions by 2% per employee in the quarter ended 30 September, compared with the same period in 2010, according to the company's quarterly sustainability report.

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  The impact of the Olympics power drain on London-based datacentres

  Power shortages and costs are becoming an increasing concern for companies with datacentres in London as the Olympics approaches.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Starting from scratch - the SMB CIO

  The role of CIO is usually associated with large companies with lots of technology and several IT staff. But that's not always the case.

• June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11

  Service providers battle to reduce carbon footprint as datacentres expand

  IT service providers are united in their attempt to reduce carbon footprints on paper, with corporate targets to support them, but despite putting a lot of energy into the cause, their power consumption is rising, according to a major benchmarking ...

• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  Juniper aims to wrap Cisco with QFabric datacentre management

  Datacentre operators and cloud computing suppliers could slash their power and space requirements while running up to 10 times faster

• October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07

  Suncorp GM: Second Life trumps videoconferencing

  Suncorp's Gavin Keeley believes the casual atmosphere of Second Life makes for better meetings. Have your say on his opinions inside this story!