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RSS IT directorHow to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News Antony Hayes, commercial director for RMG, was appointed a year ago to reduce the £110m the RMG was spending on running its IT operation each year. How does a business pay less for its... [20 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment And finally, having the IT director or CIO be a co-leader in identifying those sorts of disruptive moves that a company can produce in order to drive real competitive advantage. Michael Chui is a senior... [18 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment Nicholas Ridley, managing director of NCRE Consulting and former president of the British Council of Offices, is an expert in workplace environments. In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching... [17 Nov 2009]
Business Advisory Services Finance Improvement
White Paper Today, the role of the CFO has evolved beyond being the director of a support function to being a true business partner who helps drive organizational strategy and performance. Industry challenges have never been greater... [13 Nov 2009]
Physical Access Control System Migration Options for Using FIPS 201-1 Compliant Credentials
White Paper With this knowledge a security director is in the best position to decide how to employ the FIPS 201-1 credential within the context of their overall security plan, bearing in mind requirements for throughput,... [12 Nov 2009]
BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business, said the aim of the trials is to get feedback from customers on how they want to use the service and what's possible in real-world conditions. BT is offering a free taste of... [05 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Mike Roberts, IT director at the London Clinic, believes teaching is also a factor. Jeff Roberts, director of information technology at Norton Rose, said that even if a UK start-up came... [03 Nov 2009]
Webcast: Voice over IP Security
White Paper In this seminar, Global Knowledge course director and instructor Stuart McLeod covers the types of attacks and how they are executed. It's important to understand that VoIP is vulnerable to specific... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News But speaking to silicon.com the Symbian Foundation's executive director Lee Williams said there is still plenty of life in Symbian. While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon... [02 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at Hachette Filipacchi, said all of the publishing house's web development is based on open source technology: "I can't imagine why anyone would use anything different! [28 Oct 2009]
Momentum Webcast: Drive Real-World Business Processes With Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Level 100)
White Paper Whether you are a sales manager, a customer service representative, a marketing director, or chief executive officer (CEO), you can have a consolidated, fast, and current views of all the measurements and key performance... [28 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News According to Peter Birley, director of IT and business operations at Browne Jacobson LLP, such costs are often greater than potential savings. Alan Bawden, IT & operations... [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News David Metcalfe, director of green tech analyst house Verdantix, said many big spending plans around carbon management and reduction have been put on hold. It's never been easy being green, especially... [22 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Nathaniel Martinez, IDC programme director for European enterprise servers said that last year, more money was spent on powering datacentres than was spent on acquiring new datacentre networking hardware, or new external... [19 Oct 2009]
YouTube presses play on Channel 4 top shows
News We look forward to other similar agreements to come," YouTube's director of partnerships Patrick Walker said in a statement. Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring its flagship shows to the video-sharing site. [16 Oct 2009]
