it director test in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up HP UK's managing director Stephen Gill has claimed that many large organisations are currently devoting around 70 to 75 per cent of their IT budget to managing their existing infrastructure, leaving little room for the innovation that can bring... [11 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment Tristan Rogers, managing director, Concrete Media Mark Murtagh, technical director, Websense Almost without exception, all are vehemently opposed to it. It is right that businesses should look carefully at the security threat posed by staff, but... [25 Oct 2007]
The CIO revolution in public sector IT: The next phase
Comment Eric Woods is government practice director at Ovum He will also work closely with relevant ministers and the senior leadership of the civil service, in particular Alexis Cleveland, the new director general of service transformation at the Cabinet... [31 Aug 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment Peter Redshaw, research director at Gartner, explained: "Spending on IT budgets is up a little but it's small. One of the brighter areas for tech spend in financial services is investment banking and Graham Yellowley, director of technology... [19 Jun 2007]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment Lawrence Orans, a research director at Gartner who wrote a research note on Skype security, says: "While Skype's 3.0 release clearly offers some enterprise-class features, an underlying issue still remains: Skype uses a proprietary signalling... [02 Apr 2007]
Leader: The evolution of the CIO career path
Leader "I always wanted to be a paratrooper when I was kid - now I guess I am," said one leading IT director, Luke Mellors from Expotel, this week. He was referring to a series of special features on silicon.com this week which take an in-depth look at... [22 Sep 2006]
Analysis: Who is the new government CIO?
Comment The government finally appointed a new CIO this week and opted for John Suffolk, who is currently director general of the £2bn Criminal Justice IT (CJIT) programme. It's this drive which compels Suffolk to regularly put in 15- or 16-hour days... [26 Apr 2006]
Open source: Where the LAMP stacks burn brightest
Comment People try to make problems far more complicated than they are," says Malcolm Macsween, managing director of open source development consultancy Enterprise Management Consulting. Open source products are more readily available to people wanting to... [29 Jun 2005]
IT consulting: Small firms flourishing
Comment Bob Moul, operations director at consultancy Zeda, says: "It became increasingly difficult to differentiate ourselves with a general proposition, so we now focus on specific skills. Steve Watmough, managing director at Chester-based IT consultancy... [18 Nov 2004]
Does Skype make sense for business?
Comment But, said Quocirca service director Clive Longbottom, businesses may require more in the way of quality and reliability than Skype can guarantee: "It's all very well for a group within a company to be using Skype but for using it as a main means... [10 Nov 2004]
On the road again: What life's like for mobile workers
Comment That's the message from Steve Butcher, a consultant for Microsoft integrators Avanade, and Jim Hanson, associate director of PR firm Noiseworks. An associate director with Noiseworks, a medium-size high-tech public relations firm he set up with... [15 Sep 2004]
Collaboration best practices: Think big to act small
Comment There are capabilities that can be provided on an enterprise-wide basis," says Nikos Drakos, research director at Gartner. Line of business managers are becoming much more likely to buy collaboration products," says David Coleman, managing director... [08 Jun 2004]
India diary: Day two - Getting settled in Mumbai
Comment But they say there'll be an all night shoot in downtown Mumbai on Friday and take a couple of shots with a digital camera to show the director, saying they'll let me know. Articles and commentary on IT offshoring and BPO in India and elsewhere will... [27 May 2004]
Skills Survey 2002: Snared by IR35? Here are some options...
Comment Martin Glick is an accountant and is the managing director of Ascot Drummond (UK) Limited, an accounting firm for small businesses. That means that, since April 2000, anyone working via an intermediary will be caught by the rules if they fail the... [28 Mar 2002]
Microsoft decision: What it really means for the industry and consumer
Comment One IT director, by contrast, told silicon.com: "I think that the breaking up of Microsoft is something the lawyers primarily will benefit from. Frank Coyle, IT Director of John Menzies, was more forthcoming. [29 Jun 2001]
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