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Richard Williams
CIO Profile As AstraZeneca CIO - a role he took up in April 2006 - Williams is responsible for worldwide application development, information management, tech infrastructure and telecommunications at the company. [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Prior to The Carphone Warehouse, Post made his name at Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB as group IT and strategy director, where he was responsible for a complete organisational and process transformation and an update to much of the core IT infrastructure. [11 Jun 2008]
Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment The platform-as-a-service approach might sound tempting but you might wish you'd gone for an infrastructure-as-a-service option. This isn't the place to offer formal classifications for cloud types, although we could make a start with SaaS, PaaS... [09 May 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment A quarter of CIOs said they will be outsourcing this year - mainly on the infrastructure, rather than application development/maintenance side - but none said they will be offshoring. Linking in with the governance theme is IT infrastructure... [26 Mar 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment Systems management tools will often include the necessary monitoring functions to let IT managers view many different facets of a computing infrastructure, from the lower levels of the computing stack, where IP traffic is routed around, all the... [10 Dec 2007]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment Or within other critical national infrastructure? At the heart of the problem is a fundamental disconnect between the law, its application and business priorities. The outcry over the missing 25 million child benefit records rumbles on. [27 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment But how do you optimise performance over a public infrastructure where control is limited, asks Quocirca's Bob Tarzey. It also provides a practical way of separating IT infrastructure from IT users because keeping them housed in the same building... [02 Nov 2007]
The McCue Interview: The AA IT director Trevor Didcock
Comment That strategy led to a £50m seven-year infrastructure deal with IBM, an application support contract with Fujitsu Services and a £10m networking contract with Cable & Wireless. Didcock joined the AA's executive management team in 2003 from rival... [21 Sep 2007]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment The move is part of F5's strategy to optimise the application infrastructure, from the data centre to the edge of the network. Once deployed, a virtual infrastructure needs to be as robust and flexible as possible, so the ability to replicate... [05 Sep 2007]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment There has not been an investment in information technology and infrastructure. Virtual data room technology (VDR) is an area of technology application that has proved an extremely cost efficient, secure application for private equity. [20 Aug 2007]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment The first step is to perform a threat and vulnerability analysis on the organisation’s information infrastructure - all of the processes, procedures, standards, people and technologies that support the use, transport and storage of data and... [02 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: How to serve two billion page impressions
Comment And confidence in the infrastructure was never more essential than when extortionists were threatening the site with denial of service attacks, added Devine. And let's face it, if you want to 'big up' your credentials in areas such as load... [05 Jun 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Virtual infrastructure Couple server virtualisation with virtualisation of the storage and the network connections, and what you get is a 'virtual infrastructure'. Partition mobility (or VM mobility) - the ability to move running virtual servers... [15 May 2007]
The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment About two-thirds of that total investment - just over £200m - went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which includes a new pharmacy system that will link to the NHS' e-prescription service, 15,000 new touchscreen tills to replace the 17-year-old... [25 Apr 2007]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment This means all enterprises need to ensure their VoIP infrastructure is protected, though this needn't be an onerous undertaking. Because VoIP is now just another application that runs on a commercial operating system, it needs to be patched... [04 Apr 2007]
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