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Comment The state of the economy and its potential impact on IT budgets will be the key challenge for IT chiefs this year along with the ongoing war for tech talent, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey.
[04 Apr 2008]
News But more than half of silicon.com's 12-strong panel of IT chiefs are feeling the budget pinch as they plan to scale back spending on external contractors - though many are planning to replace these workers with permanent staff to ensure they still...
[28 Mar 2008]
News The campaign has received backing from the Metropolitan Police, Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, a former White House cyber security adviser, blue chip FTSE 100 companies, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), UK payment industry body...
[12 Mar 2008]
News Photos: When tech chiefs rock out. On the software-as-a-service front, Gartner estimates by 2012, businesses will be spending a third of their application budget on subscription products, as opposed to product licences.
[01 Feb 2008]
News Any resulting belt-tightening by organisations will usually hit the IT budget first and half of IT chiefs on silicon.com's 12-strong weekly CIO Jury panel said they are already planning for tech spending cuts or changes because of the current...
[24 Jan 2008]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer ¦ The Brampton Factor: Why big government IT projects fail ¦ Video: How to keep the best-performing staff ¦ Photos...
[24 Jan 2008]
News With global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) predicted to peak at $5tr this year, IT chiefs believe that experience of M&A has never been more important. The CIO's role in the M&A process is also changing, with companies charging 46 per cent of them...
[10 Jan 2008]
News But not all IT chiefs are likely to find it easy to cut costs. The first budget should stick with the status quo but be supplemented by a second back-up budget, which assumes the need to cut costs in response to the arrival of a business slowdown...
[07 Nov 2007]
News Data centre chiefs are struggling with staff shortages, more work to do and minimal increases in budgets. But the average budget increase in the last two years is a modest seven per cent, which adjusted for inflation means data centre budget growth...
[30 Oct 2007]
News According to research commissioned by EDS, UK tech chiefs stay in their posts for an average of 38 months. EDS warned CIOs are also caught in the "value trap", where 80 per cent of their budget goes to keeping legacy systems alive.
[24 Aug 2007]
News About 40 per cent of American CIOs would reduce the project scope and 38 per cent would increase the budget, the survey of of 1,125 IT chiefs reveals. Clarke added the American IT chiefs may set out a project's requirements better than their UK...
[28 Jun 2007]
News Nearly two-thirds (59 per cent) of CIOs said an "increased interest and involvement of the business in IT strategy and planning" would help them do their job more effectively and 54 per cent asked for a bigger IT budget.
[18 Jun 2007]
News Ambitious business growth targets for 2007 are putting yet more pressure on tech chiefs to innovate, reduce costs and deliver better quality services, according to Gartner's annual CIO Agenda survey. The survey found global IT budgets will increase...
[14 Feb 2007]
News The November 2007 deadline and the need for data storage and retention are also listed as problems for technology chiefs. Jon Murphy, managing director of EA Consulting Services, told silicon.com while the technology job itself doesn't seem to be...
[28 Nov 2006]
News Businesses are in danger of drowning from data and information overload, leading UK IT chiefs have warned. But Peter Maddigan, associate IT director at Budget Insurance, said: "It's not a question of drowning in the volume of data.
[23 Nov 2006]
News A Forrester survey of 302 IT chiefs at European businesses found that 20 per cent are also planning to wait up to two years after Vista's release before deploying it. The State of Enterprise Infrastructure 2006 study said that while the overall...
[14 Nov 2006]
News A recent poll of silicon.com's CIO Jury revealed IT chiefs believe software licensing is too complex Paul Broome, IT director at 192.com, said: "With upgrades, 'rental' licences, and licences tied to specific hardware it's crazy, difficult to...
[01 Aug 2006]
News This follows a benchmarking report from Aberdeen Group this week that said 90 per cent of organisations have adopted or are planning to adopt a SOA - although it warned doing so can eat up 40 per cent of a company's IT budget.
[14 Jul 2006]
Comment Are IT chiefs missing out on big benefits by avoiding small tech vendors? A recent poll of silicon.com's CIO Jury confirms that indeed many IT chiefs do feel pressure internally and externally to choose the usual suspects.
[06 Jul 2006]
News Paul Broome, IT director at 192.com, said: "With upgrades, 'rental' licences, and licences tied to specific hardware it's crazy, difficult to manage and properly budget for. Traditional enterprise software licensing has become too complex and is...
[16 Jun 2006]
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