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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment Construction isn't an industry noted for its heavy reliance on technology but she says her priority is to develop an IT strategy and build a team that will support the company's ambitious growth plans and frequent acquisitions over the next three...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. Security experts are having to admit that traditional antivirus scanning approaches are no longer able to keep pace with the growth in malware products...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment While worldwide computer unit sales continue to slow - although Macs are bucking the trend - it's in mobiles that growth is predicted as the web moves to handheld devices. That growth is partly because smart operating systems are filtering down...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white

Comment Despite the growth in digital communications and promises of the paperless office, printed documents remain critical to most enterprises. Who controls printing and imaging? Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window.

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber squads at each of its 56 field offices across the US and support 70 cyber task forces nationwide, backed up by global...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

Comment Now the internet is a primary tool for accessing services and buying goods, will the new Banking Code put consumers off the internet and dampen the growth of online trading? The banks and building societies have just signed up to a new code.

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

IT must be called to account over emissions

Comment In reality, under the pressure of almost continuous growth and restricted budgets, data centre management is often not all it should be. Despite their best intentions, many organisations are overlooking the real environmental impact of IT operations.

Tags: power, carbon emissions, data centres, green

[07 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth

Comment Our entire history of growth and success has been founded on a high-wire act that teeters between misconception and deception. Written at home on a wet evening and dispatched to silicon.com via personal LAN.

Tags: artificial intelligence, search, web 2.0

[31 Mar 2008]

BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch

Comment Charmaine Eggberry is vice president and managing director of EMEA at RIM - a position that gives her responsibility for the company's growth targets in the region, expansion into new European markets, strategic partnerships and sales and...

Tags: women, rim, blackberry, population

[18 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?

Comment Beware of organisational growth - organisations often look at managed services as cost containment, which means they will continue to try and reduce overall costs related to this initiative. Growth and cost reduction of key resources is a recipe...

Tags: outsourcing, managed services, offshoring, evidence

[10 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe

Comment It appears to me that IT is about two years behind the business in terms of resources-to-growth models. The company's growth and its demands on IT always outstrip our resources. With spring and recession in the air, a CEO's fancy turns to pruning...

Tags: management, resources, job cuts, recession

[03 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Identity crisis

Comment With each new initiative and with continued business growth it is becoming increasingly difficult, with ever greater consequences as recent events have shown. It is rapid growth and oversights that cause personal information to be exposed.

Tags: identity, security, data theft, ecommerce

[25 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment The company grew big by achieving dominance in growth markets that may have limited further growth. The problem for a company that becomes as large as Google is to maintain profitability and growth at levels that satisfy investors.

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

Indian IT outsourcers look ahead

Comment Ahead of the Leadership Forum, Nasscom released figures showing an expected 33 per cent growth in IT sector sales for the Indian industry to the end of March, to a total of $52bn - $40bn from exports of software and outsourcing services - and...

Tags: nasscom, india, outsourcing, offshore

[14 Feb 2008]

Systems management hits impasse

Comment This is especially true because over the past few years shifts such as the growth of Itil have revitalised the operational IT management market. Organisations need a more coherent view - and one that has business meaning, says Martin Atherton of...

Tags: management, systems, it services, monitoring

[13 Feb 2008]

The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group

Comment Each of the business units operates autonomously and as group technology director, Lynch's role was to develop an IT strategy during a period of acquisition-based growth from a £500m turnover company to a £2.4bn company.

Tags: go ahead group, dave lynch, cios, wi fi

[30 Jan 2008]

Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008

Comment Online trading platforms have established themselves during times of strong economic growth assisted by easy and even lax credit. So what impact will a downturn have on the technological future of these markets, asks TowerGroup's Bob McDowall.

Tags: bonds, arbitrage, trading platforms, flow

[30 Jan 2008]

Retail in a rut: IT to the rescue?

Comment As the Christmas sales figures proved, retailers looking for any significant growth this year will have to look online. With high street sales struggling to keep pace with inflation and online trade increasing by 54 per cent from 2006 to 2007...

Tags: retail, investment, internet, leisure

[25 Jan 2008]

Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer

Comment For example we believe we may be able to discern the age of each ice pan or ice flow that we cross - because, like growth rings on a tree, there are growth rings in the under-shelf of the ice each time it starts to freeze when a winter comes, so...

Tags: arctic, pen hadow, vanco, climate change

[21 Jan 2008]

Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers

Leader Retailers face a real danger of becoming the victims of their own success, with growth in sales actually damaging brand loyalty if they don't pay more attention to fulfilment of orders. It can't be denied that the holiday period has been a bumper...

Tags: christmas, retail, online, goods

[02 Jan 2008]

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