IT management

The digital CIO: ‘Fear of Google’ and the ethics of digital business

Could the big digital players be using their dominance by exerting unfair competition? Continue Reading

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• Brinley Platts and Peter Thornton

Research reveals the inner psychology of IT professionals

IT professionals are creative, flexible and strategic but can find it difficult to fit in with corporate culture, says psychology research Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Google faces fresh EU pressure over advertising practices

European Commission calls for “new solutions” to address complaints that Google's online search advertising is anti-competitive Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Government's digital strategy could cut red tape

Governments can harness digital technology to make public services more efficient and generate significant cost savings Continue Reading

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• Lisa Kelly

Morgan Motor Company swaps Sage for integrated IFS

Morgan Motor Company is replacing its Sage 500 accounting system with IFS Applications Continue Reading

How Sony Music used Google cloud for One Direction’s 1D-Day event

Sony Music and its digital agency AIS London adopted Google Cloud Platform services to handle One Direction's day event Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Online fashion retailer Asos seeks CIO

Asos.com is looking to appoint a CIO following the departure of Pete Marsdon after two years in the role Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Why bare metal cloud is in vogue

Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings Continue Reading

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• Janakiram MSV

Watermelon SLAs – making sense of green and red alerts

Often IT SLAs don’t reflect the real service and service experience of users. They also aren’t focused enough on the business results Continue Reading

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• Barclay Rae

Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

Define a software delivery strategy for business innovation – four key steps

As software takes a central role in modern business models, application delivery capability has become the key enabler of disruption Continue Reading

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• Diego Lo Giudice and Kurt Bittner

Windows Server 2003 EOL: HP seeks to cash in as IBM-Lenovo deal yet to close

As enterprises look to refresh their infrastructure, HP is playing the stability card to win deals as IBM and Dell are mired by uncertainties Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO) Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

Choice and ease of use: key elements of a good app store

Companies need to focus on individual user requirements and make sure their app store delivers the right tools for the right job Continue Reading

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• Jim Mortleman

Local authorities can improve data protection, says ICO audit

There is room for improvement in how local authorities protect personal data, says an audit report by the ICO Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Technology on trial - justice system could do better at finding digital fingerprints

I've just completed jury duty - my first real-life experience of the English judicial process. It's a fascinating thing to do - I would recommend it to anyone. But it was also an eye opener for the ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

The internet of things is coming: Is your datacentre ready?

Gartner estimates the IoT will see 26 billion units installed by 2020 – channelling huge volumes of data traffic into datacentres Continue Reading

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• Clive Longbottom

FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Government major projects watchdog needs more powers, says MPs

Major Projects Authority needs stronger powers to improve project delivery across government, say MPs Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

“I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

What ingredients go into the successful app store?

An enterprise app store should provide the controlled availability of apps for employees.We look at what is available for organisations to use Continue Reading

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• Bernt Ostergaard , Quocirca

CIO interview: Dave Ubachs, CIO, Staples Europe

Staples is undertaking major IT projects in Europe that will see e-commerce improvements and back-end consolidation in 16 countries Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

UK recession benefits IT industry

A fifth of IT staff believe the UK recession has had a positive impact on the IT industry, according to Randstad Technologies Continue Reading

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor

Intel unveils first 14nm processor aimed at mobile computing devices

Chipmaker's first processor based on 14nm micro-architecture will be thinner, cooler and aimed at tablet PCs Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned? Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

AstraZeneca rolls out IT self service using ServiceNow

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has rolled out ServiceNow self service IT to 51,500 staff globally in four months Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready? Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Paddy Power hit by data breach in 2010

Gambling firm Paddy Power owns up to 2010 data breach after recovering a compromised dataset in Canada Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra signs multi-megawatt datacentre deal

CoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020 Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Search firms meet EU regulators over right to be forgotten

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have met EU data protection authorities to discuss the implications of the right to be forgotten ruling Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

TfL wastes millions on telecoms, says IIPAG watchdog

Watchdog IIPAG criticises Transport for London (TfL) for its inefficient and fragmented telecoms contracts Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Congratulations to GDS on open document formats - but will Microsoft resort to litigation?

Back in February, when the UK government's consultation on the use of open document formats closed, I described the decision to be made by the Cabinet Office as the acid test of its commitment to ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

CIO interview: Rorie Devine, CTO, Hailo

A technology overhaul is taking place behind the scenes at cab-hailing smartphone app Hailo as the company extends its international reach Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

EU funds project to boost European cloud computing market

Cloudcatalyst project will assess cloud market in Europe, identify barriers to cloud adoption and provide tools to boost its growth Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Privacy key to UK business opportunity, says KPMG

Finding the right balance between privacy and business insight could help UK firms take the lead in innovative online services, says KPMG Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

BBC 4G broadcast research wins support of Huawei and EE

BBC Research and Development has teamed up with Huawei and EE to explore the role of 4G mobile networking in the future of broadcasting Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

System for seven-day bank account switching underused

The IT system that underpins government’s regulation of seven-day bank account switching is being underused Continue Reading

NAO criticises GDS IT savings method

The National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the Government Digital Service over its approach to calculating public IT savings Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

The legal considerations of the internet of things

As with many new technologies, there are a number of tricky legal challenges to consider as part of widespread IoT adoption Continue Reading

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• Kim Walker

Ed Vaizey gets digital industries role in Cabinet reshuffle

Culture minister Ed Vaizey has been promoted to the post of minister for digital industries in this week’s Cabinet reshuffle Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS

IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk

Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

The billion-customer challenge of ITC CIO VVR Babu

ITC CIO VVR Babu explains the challenges for a business that targets over one billion consumers with its goods Continue Reading

Big Apple revolution: How to manage Macs in the enterprise

Apple’s products were once niche devices. Now, following a consumer-led initiative, they are widely used across the enterprise Continue Reading

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• Rob Bamforth, Timefort

Time for an upgrade? Why you should buy IT now

In this week’s Computer Weekly, as competitive pressures and new technologies drive down IT prices, we find out why now is a great time to buy IT. We examine why going digital means a different approach to IT management. And we hear the latest best practices for improving your customer engagement with IT. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

A guide to smart home automation

Unless it is a new build, the challenge in creating a smart home is that technology must work irrespective of the age of the property Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Universal Credit business case not approved - obfuscation from the most open government in history

The government has finally been forced to admit that the business case for the troubled Universal Credit programme has still not been signed off - despite repeated assurances that approval was ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

The most influential women in UK IT 2014

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal our annual list of the 25 most influential women in UK IT – female IT leaders making a difference to the digital economy. We look at how to integrate iPads into the corporate IT infrastructure. And we profile enterprise software upstart Workday as it challenges Oracle and SAP. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

The pros and cons of iPads in the enterprise

The iPad is often the first platform for which developers produce apps – but it is substantially more expensive than its competitors Continue Reading

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• JP Gownder

To every male IT leader - it is your responsibility to get more women into IT

Congratulations to the 25 most influential women in UK IT - our annual list was announced yesterday, and it contains some amazing, high-achieving individuals (who happen to be women). The event at ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild

Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Labour's digital rhetoric is increasingly positive towards GDS

Labour MP Jon Cruddas gave a speech this week that was barely reported in the press, but contained his party's most significant statements yet about the role of digital and technology in a ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Dear HP, Microsoft (and others) - stop bleating, start competing

There's an interesting story in The Independent today that highlights the issue I wrote about on this blog last week - about the Cabinet Office policy of trying to make the old "oligopoly" of big ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass network infrastructure surveillance

Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

BBC promotes R&D controller Matthew Postgate to CTO role

The BBC has appointed its research and development (R&D) controller Matthew Postgate as the corporation's chief technology officer (CTO) Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

Connected cars standard by end of 2018

Juniper Research study finds integrated in-vehicle connectivity and apps will become standard in new cars by the end of 2018 Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

The CIO Playbook – Innovation

Nicholas R. Colisto describes a comprehensive practical method to tap into your company's reservoir of innovation to solve real business problems in this extract from his book. Continue Reading

Managing the digital innovation process

Rob Lambert, visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, offers advice to CIOs who want to drive digital innovation in this presentation. Continue Reading

Realise Benefits from a Digital Strategy

Rob Lambert, visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, offers advice to CIOs on developing business cases and maximising the business value of digital technology projects. Continue Reading

Accelerating Digital Marketing

This study from CEB debunks the myths over the relationship between CIOs and CMOs and shows how CIOs can play a critical role in accelerating digital marketing. Continue Reading

Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships

Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP Continue Reading

CW Europe - July 2014 Edition

In this issue of CW Europe we investigate how changing your storage can make the world of difference to your company’s carbon emissions. Continue Reading

Wearable tech must comply with privacy laws, warns ICO

Wearable technology must comply with UK data privacy laws, warns the ICO Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Google begins complying with European takedown requests

Google has begun removing search results in response to takedown requests from European citizens Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition

Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros Continue Reading

Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years

Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010 Continue Reading

Sourcing and integrating managed services

Analysts Bob Tarzey and Clive Longbottom look at the issues business managers need to take into account when deciding how to deploy applications and when they should consider turning to managed service providers (MSP) for resources and advice. Continue Reading

Strategic IT

Find out how two leading CIOs have enabled their organisations to use information technology as strategic driver, in this extract from the book Strategic IT. Continue Reading

The Future of Corporate IT

This report from CEB looks at 5 key opportunities for IT to drive productivity and growth as digital technology changes the nature of the work environment. Continue Reading

Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Bangalore IT sector supports waste pickers through cloud platform

A cloud-based platform created by IT services firm MindTree aims to help India’s waste pickers to organize themselves as small businesses Continue Reading

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• TechTarget India contributor

Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software

Dell Software president John Swainson's aims to make Dell Software a $5bn business Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

IFDS integrates UK and India service centres

International Financial Data Services has implemented software to balance workloads across UK and Indian delivery centres Continue Reading

Improve the success of HR systems implementation

Mark Martin, former HR executive at Direct Line Group and T-Mobile, lists the key questions you need to ask suppliers when selecting a HR Technology system. Continue Reading

Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans

Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans Continue Reading

Micro-datacentre: What IT problems it solves and what workload systems suit it

A micro-datacentre is a smaller containerised datacentre system designed to solve different problems or to handle different workloads Continue Reading

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• Clive Longbottom

Can social science save the web?

Pretty much every week these days you can expect a story in Computer Weekly on one of two topics: the growing importance and influence of the web to business and economic development; and the ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

HSBC makes executives responsible for application consolidation

In the next few weeks, senior executives at HSBC globally will have KPIs to reduce the number of applications they run Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software

Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Will silicon photonics replace copper cabling in mainstream datacentres?

Silicon photonics can increase bandwidth in servers, improve data transfer speeds and reduce complexity. But are datacentres ready for it? Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Russia invests £2.8bn to deliver 10Mbps fibre broadband across the country

Earlier this week, I was in Moscow, visiting the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Russia's $15bn attempt to create a tech startup environment to compete with Silicon Valley.I mentioned in one of my ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Skolkovo Innovation Centre - Russia's Silicon Valley?

The Russian government is ploughing billions of rubles into creating a rival to Silicon Valley - but will the Skolkovo Innovation Centre succeed? Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

India needs to convert IT skills to entrepreneurship

India's start-up industry has been boosted by the growth of smart and cloud technologies and the rise in demand for big data and related services Continue Reading

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• Anup Basti

Unilever appoints Jane Moran as global CIO

Former CIO of Thomson Reuters, Jane Moran, has joined Unilever as its new global CIO Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

UK airports lead move to cloud services

UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO. Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

CW Europe – June 2014 Edition

Europe is on a quest for innovation, looking like it might even give California’s Silicon Valley a run for its money in a few years’ time. London’s Silicon Roundabout in Old Street may be smaller than Silicon Valley in size and reputation; however it is often featured on the list of top ten best cities to begin a startup company. Continue Reading

CIOs should 'leave innovation to marketing'

CIOs should focus on managing the technical infrastructure and leave innovation to other parts of the business – conclusion of a major study. Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time? Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Bringing the technology world to Russia

The billions of rubles of government money being invested in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on the outskirts of Moscow (read my previous post for more details) is not only going into developing the ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

How Moscow money and the post-Soviet generation hope to create Russia's Silicon Valley

The Skolkovo Innovation Centre is about a half-hour drive from Red Square, in a 400 hectare building site on the outskirts of Moscow. Today and tomorrow, it's the venue for the second annual ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers

Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014 Continue Reading

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• Tim Wood and Henry Kirby

BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor