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Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment In good times and bad, green IT deserves a spot on the CIO agenda. In fact, a recent green IT survey, conducted by the CIO Executive Board - a programme of the Corporate Executive Board - revealed that... [21 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment In a recent silicon.com CIO Jury, just one of the IT chiefs surveyed said the recent release of Snow Leopard will make their business more likely to adopt Apple desktops, while other CIOs outlined to silicon.com why they... [13 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News The company's CIO, Bryan Kinsella, told silicon.com: "As part of that work we've been taking a look across our whole information systems and technology stack and groupware was quite an important area for us to focus on,... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Companies should create their own "technology watch lists" so they know when cutting-edge technology is ready for widespread adoption - and also to keep the CIO from being ambushed by other execs. Such a list should also... [12 Oct 2009]
Naked CIO: Put more business in IT education
Comment The Naked CIO has some suggestions. After reading a recent CIO Jury on whether universities are preparing youth properly for IT challenges, I began to think about why higher education is not effective. [12 Oct 2009]
BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
News The BBC has appointed a new CIO as part of a restructuring of its broadcast and enterprise technology area within the Future Media & Technology division. As exclusively reported by silicon.com, the corporation's previous... [09 Oct 2009]
BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
News Speaking at a Microsoft customer event in London this week, BAA CIO Philip Langsdale said the company has been testing Windows 7 and now plans to roll it out across the company. Airport operator BAA is hoping the roll... [09 Oct 2009]
Barack Obama
AS Profile Since then the BlackBerry-loving President has made a start on realising his promise to be one of the US' most tech-savvy leaders and has appointed a CIO and CTO to help him. US President Barack Obama entered the White... [08 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News According to a silicon.com CIO Jury last month, the answer is not very. Once again, September saw another fresh crop of students head off to university for the first time, on their way to becoming the next generation of... [06 Oct 2009]
Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments
White Paper Virtualization is the hottest technology for CIOs today with it ranked one of the top 5 important trends for 2008 according to a recent poll from CIO Insight.6 With the cost-savings, agility and convenience... [06 Oct 2009]
FISMA: Achieving and Maintaining Compliance to Ensure Security of Systems and Data
White Paper The case studies highlight how a CIO, Information Systems Owner and Authorizing Officer approach and manage the internal issues of demonstrating FISMA compliance, and how they meet many of those challenges with Tripwire... [06 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News It's a situation that looks unlikely to change, despite the launch of a new Mac OS: a recent poll of the silicon.com CIO Jury found none of the IT chiefs surveyed said the release of Snow Leopard will prompt their... [02 Oct 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile As the man with the burden of overseeing the annual public sector IT spend of £16bn, the importance of government CIO John Suffolk cannot be overstated. Suffolk and the CIO Council are working to strip... [30 Sep 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Before being appointed as CIO Kundra had served as CTO for Washington DC, where he was praised for making bureaucratic systems more efficient and transparent and drawing on applications from Google and Apple. [30 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News In February the CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the uptake of open source across the public sector. The benefits of open source software are clear to Jeremy Tuck, CIO of Islington... [29 Sep 2009]
