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Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Equipment PCs, servers, printers, cooling systems - all come with an embodied carbon footprint. It sums up perfectly the approach that an organisation needs to take to understand its requirements and adopt an IT strategy to help achieve them. [17 Jul 2008]
My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment Before becoming a journalist I had had a real job as a computer graphics programmer, working with some very high-end systems that cost, believe it or not, upwards of $250,000. I was sceptical about how far Microsoft and the PC standard could go. [11 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Real-time data systems enable total flexibility in a lending institution's response to the at-risk portions of its mortgage portfolio and let it be proactive customer by customer. Such systems could be the difference between a housing market... [03 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment And worse - plans to encrypt sensitive data on NHS systems also appear to be missing the deadlines set by strategic health authorities. It's been a while since I've mentioned silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign, which is aimed at improving the... [26 Jun 2008]
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment These shifts will change the way organisations choose and pay for systems, says Corporate IT Forum research head Ollie Ross. At one end of the supplier spectrum would be companies offering one-stop-shop hosted systems that are quick to deploy... [16 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment I mean ignition systems, pumps and motors, microwave ovens and other devices operating in, or close to, the wi-fi band, including some cordless phones. Written in a London coffee shop with the five-bar signal problem and dispatched via a free wi-fi... [13 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment O is for Operating systems But the less appealing side of the story is that you probably won't know what is available, how well it will work and how much it will cost until you get there," he adds. Software that makes mobile broadband easy to use... [12 Jun 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Prior to BT Doran was European CIO at Capital One and head of retail information systems at NatWest. Doran's key priority is defining and building the strategic IT direction for Network Rail as well as delivering the technology - infrastructure and... [11 Jun 2008]
Steve Chambers
CIO Profile As CIO, Steve Chambers has been responsible for Visa Europe's regional data centre as well as continuing the development of numerous systems and delivering a new payments architecture. Chambers has also worked to establish a customer service... [11 Jun 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile He also led the biggest change programme in the history of the AA, refreshing most of the IT infrastructure and implementing new systems or major enhancements to every business. As well as achieving an MBA at Cranfield School of Management, Didcock... [11 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment He is responsible for the operation and development of all BA IT and systems. He is the National Outsourcing Association's offshoring director and a founding member of the British Computer Society's working party on offshoring, as well as a... [03 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment The next step was consultancy and Beaton joined PA Consulting as a financial and global trading systems specialist and spent 11 years there, rising to become senior partner responsible for IT consulting in the public and healthcare sectors. [02 Jun 2008]
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment It's a business methodology more than a technological approach and lets organisations get more from existing systems. These legacy applications were never designed to be accessed in this manner and so lack a security model to address external threats. [20 May 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment I mean it's core - we were looking at systems - but actually my role was very much around facilitating conversations and ensuring that the right people were speaking together and setting the governance framework in place," she explains. [13 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…
Comment He dropped one here: "Having tried to manage open source environments, the degree to which rather eccentric - apologies for the generalisation - open source custodians and Unix engineers customise their environments creates extremely bulky systems... [08 May 2008]
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