Podcasts
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In The Current Issue:
- Covid-19: Three technology areas that CIOs must address
- Is this Netflix-style thriller the future of security training?
- How IT can back up ESG efforts to do environmental and social good
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Podcast: IT news round-up for 23 May 2008
Stories include: London Stock Exchange recoups £40m cost of electronic trading platform in under 12 months; and the UK Identity and Passport Service awards ID card contracts worth 1.5 billion pounds over 10 years.
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Podcast: Renewable energy cooling at BMW data centre reduces costs
Bennie Vorster, vice president, IT solutions & technology standards at BMW Group talks about the company's Munich data centre, where using renewable energy resources has reduced cooling costs.
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Podcast: Columbia space shuttle data recovery
Podcast interview with Jeff Pederson of data recovery operations at Kroll Ontrack about the task of recovering data from the hard disc retrieved from the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
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Using information to drive the organisation forward
Within the software applications of your company exists the data that management need to make the decisions to help grow your organisation.
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Podcast: Business continuity is not just an IT issue - Russell Price of the Continuity Forum
The responsibility for business continuity has to reside at the highest level or any organisation and not just with the IT department. Russell Price of the Continuity Forum talks to Computer Weekly's Warwick Ashford about the issues involved.
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Microsoft's Brad Goldberg on how Live Search will take on Google
Microsoft's Brad Goldberg on how the company intends Live Search to take on Google. (Telephone interview with ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran.)
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Podcast: Microsoft COO Kevin Turner on how to get a high-paying management job in IT
Microsoft hired Kevin Turner to be its Chief Operating Officer and offered him base salary of $570,000 (£285,000) per year and a $7m (£3.5m) up-front payment in 2005. Kevin Turner, previously CIO at Wal-Mart, gives his top tips in six minutes on how IT staff can make the progression to managers and earn the big bucks.
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Podcast: Top tips for powering and cooling datacentres
Powering and cooling data centres can be expensive if done incorrectly. Gartner analyst Rakesh Kumar gives the latest advice on how to spot the symptoms of a data centre under stress and how to control and measure power to correct the problem.
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Podcast: Round-up 11 April - MPs ask questions about Terminal 5
Weekly IT news round-up from Warwick Ashford at ComputerWeekly.com. This week: The New York Stock Exchange implementing off the shelf technology to cut time taken to access business critical data; and MPs aks questions about what really went wrong at Heathrow’s Terminal 5: people, processes, or IT?
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Interview: Emergency telecoms training - Oisin Walton from Telecoms sans Frontieres
Oisin Walton of Telecoms Sans Frontières talks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about establishing emergency telecommunations in disaster relief situations, including the technical solutions available, and how volunteers are trained for field work in an emergency situation.
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Podcast: Fabien Doléac of Telecoms Sans Frontières on emergency telecoms on the frontline
Cliff Saran interviews Fabien Doléac of Telecoms Sans Frontières (TSF), who has recently returned from Mozambique where he setup a telecommunication centre.
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Podcast: Shell VP for IT infrastructure and services reveals their innovative outsourcing approach
Shell’s $4 billion IT outsourcing deal announced earlier this month, will see outsourcer EDS take over the risk and governance of the oil company’s key networks and data centre IT suppliers. In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to Swee Chen Goh, vice president for IT infrastructure and services for Shell globally, about this innovative contract.
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Podcast: News round-up 7 April – Anti-fraud measures for debit cards and the Phorm privacy debate
Round-up of UK IT industry news including last week’s top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com and a look at the main stories in this week’s issue.
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Opinion + audio: UK companies must improve business continuity
UK companies are still not doing enough to ensure business continuity, according to the Continuity Forum.
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Podcast: News round-up 31 March - Speedy Hire saves by rationalising Microsoft licences
Our weekly round-up of UK IT industry news including the top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com last week, and a look ahead to the focus of next week's issue. This week's stories include how tool hire firm Speedy Hire expects to save £6m over the next six years after rationalising the way it licenses Microsoft software.
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IT news round-up podcast for 20 March: Patent warning and workplace bullying
Weekly round-up of UK IT news. This week, stories include a warning to IBM customers to check they're protected from patent lawsuits by third-party software developers and news that over two-thirds of UK IT workers claim that they have suffered workplace bullying.
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IT news round-up podcast for 17 March: Gateway reviews, share trading platforms and more
In this week's UK IT news round-up, how the government is using old legislation to keep Gateway reviews secret; a report on how Eurostar has attracted record passengers and boosted sales 15.5% after implementing a revenue management software package; and news of share trading exchange Turquoise which is due to complete the implementation of its IT infrastructure in the first week of April, using off the shelf trading applications.
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IT news round-up podcast for 10 March: National ID card scheme faces new criticism
Weekly IT news round-up podcast for 10 March 2008. Stories this week include fresh criticism of the UK national identity database / ID card scheme from the Crosby report and other sources, and BAA's rejection of RFID technology in favour of barcodes for baggage tracking.
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IT news round-up podcast: IT jobs market - 3 March 2008
This week: Computer Weekly’s quarterly survey of the IT jobs market; the new national database of confidential patient records to be open to access by staff without professional qualifications; and EasyJet's website redesign.
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Podcast: How to get the most out of Microsoft
In this interview Adrian Davey, head of IT at Tubelines, speaks to Cliff Saran about how Tube Lines has made the most from the company's Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.
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IT news round-up podcast: Public sector IT goes green - 25 February 2008
Stories in this week's podcast round-up, presented by Warwick Ashford, include a report from executive editor Tony Collins that the UK government is planning a 'green' strategy for the public sector.
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Weekly IT news round-up podcast: Blair's politics interfered with NHS NPfIT practicalities
In this week's podcast round-up of the latest IT industry news, Warwick Ashford discusses stories including revelations that Tony Blair tried to shorten the NPfIT timetable to meet an election deadline, and the way in which a number of companies are making the most of the special skills of people with autism in the world of software testing.
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Podcast interview: Ralph Szygenda, CIO General Motors
Ralph Szygenda, global chief information officer at General Motors, has used IT to save the company £6bn in 10 years.
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IT news round-up podcast: Birmingham City Council SAP-system goes wrong
Computer Weekly's Warwick Ashford brings you the UK IT news highlights for the week ending 12 February, including Birmingham City Council's backlog of unpaid invoices following an SAP-based system's failure; a visit to Cern to see their latest developments; and news of Scotland's trial of telemedicine services for remote communities.