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Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment Such low-risk buys have helped fill service gaps and cover new geographic territories. Such acquisitions have helped India's outsourcing companies to consolidate in specific verticals and select territories, thus serving... [06 Nov 2009]
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment However, the IT department then runs the risk of increasing its own energy consumption levels by increasing power needed to run the systems which provide those collaboration tools. In good times and bad, green IT... [21 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment And they will almost certainly want to build on the systems they have already rather than risk a 'rip and replace'. Jive, an enterprise-focused social software company, has a catchy tagline: it says it's going to... [20 Oct 2009]
Warren East
AS Profile Another panellist pointed to the pervasiveness of ARM's chips - something the company has achieved by licensing its IP to partners, rather than having its own fabs with all the associated cost and risk. [29 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment Requiring that the contractor must behave "appropriately from an environmental perspective" pushes compliance risk on to the contractor. Being green does not come naturally to the information technology sector. [10 Sep 2009]
Cloud vendor shakeup on the horizon
Comment I also think the time is drawing close where the other mega-vendors - IBM, Oracle, and SAP - must either launch their own cloud application platforms or acquire one, or risk being left behind. The cloud applications... [01 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up Of the 500 bosses questioned by recruitment site TheLadders.co.uk who are changing their plans, more than half have trimmed their holiday budget and a quarter have decided to stay behind their front door and not go anywhere, thus saving... [07 Aug 2009]
CIOs: How to innovate during a recession
Comment Most approaches to IT projects are risk-averse and designed for an age when IT was mainly about automating well defined and well understood business processes. Downturns are no time for businesses to sit still, says... [04 Aug 2009]
SpinVox: Are you listening?
Comment Using a bit of mystique to protect company secrets is all very well but too many foggy messages risk driving a wedge between you and your customers, warns Natasha Lomas. An interesting little tale unfolded last week... [27 Jul 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment Such a scheme raises big questions over security, and heightens the risk that by passing on patient details to private companies the NHS loses control of how citizens' personal information is kept confidential. [07 Jul 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment The issue the network faces now is that, until the proper security measures are in place, some patient-identifiable data (PID) may be at risk from insecure connections. While the NHS has made some attempts to secure its... [07 Jul 2009]
Preventing data loss - what's needed
Comment However, the risk of leakage is greatest when data has been extracted from a repository and is being transferred by email, shared over the web or copied to some portable device. Though there are plenty of tools to help... [16 Jun 2009]
Real-world business intelligence
Comment This increased focused on compliance and risk avoidance has meant more pressure on the information managers and BI systems, according to Thomas. How can business intelligence help your organisation? Andrew Donoghue... [05 Jun 2009]
Pascal Emile
CIO Profile Emile then relocated to London in January 2000 working with Dresdner's investment banking division and took on a number of senior positions within IT, including global responsibilities for equity derivatives, risk... [03 Jun 2009]
Legal Eye: How to save money with offshoring
Comment Any client that was exposed to the full risk of recent currency fluctuations might well have seen the entirety of their potential savings eroded in a matter of months. In order to reduce this threat, contracts should... [26 May 2009]
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