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The McCue Interview: Nigel Underwood, CIO, DHL
Comment We need to be very good at integrating those systems with those of our customers, or the systems of our customers with those of other providers. Progressive investment in vital systems... [08 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: Hoping for a dry Friday
Comment The 'silicon.comrades' team of CIOs will be braving the cold too - including Steve Clarke, director, systems and operations at AOL Broadband; Graham Benson, IT director at M and M Direct; Nic Evans, European IT director... [30 Sep 2008]
Green IT changes outsourcing for all
Comment Managing suppliers' green strategies shouldn't be revolutionary; KPIs and SLAs are systems and processes that are already applied to cover non-green elements of outsourcing contracts. Despite the introduction of green... [23 Sep 2008]
Naked CIO: Fishing for data
Comment I am strong believer that this is the most effective way to get the best out of your data systems and also out of the users that rely on it. Over the last few years the amount of my annual budget that deals with data and... [08 Sep 2008]
The Naked CIO: The great recovery disaster
Comment Even though there was no disruption to my systems during that outage it is the only experience I have had to assess potential difficulties in a time of emergency and chaos. Many plans I've read talk about back-up,... [01 Sep 2008]
The Naked CIO: Best backgrounds for CIOs?
Comment To this end ensuring and understanding the principles of stable systems and functioning applications are essential. Often they have backgrounds in finance or business operations. They are focused on... [18 Aug 2008]
Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Comment If more board members understood that, we might see a greater business emphasis on robust systems, says Martin Atherton. The business is the primary beneficiary of software... [12 Aug 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment First, it is expensive to maintain multiple platforms, although they have to do this to some extent because of customers' legacy systems. Some of them are quite well known, like CRM specialist Epiphany, ERP company BAAN... [06 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment O is for Operating systems The economic downturn and collapse of the dollar have resulted in a lot of my business migrating out of the US into the EU and south-east Asia. Written poolside at my hotel in... [05 Aug 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment The aim is to build more common platforms across the business units, share applications and systems. One of Pavitt's key targets is to streamline and modernise TfL's vast IT infrastructure across the... [29 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment The IT systems are operational and in fact the games management systems, which among other things handle accreditation and staffing schedules, are already working at peak usage. But in addition to... [21 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment When I'm flying an aircraft in cloud, I don't expect my navigation systems to hang or the GPS to announce its downloading a software update and will reboot in 60 seconds, leaving me to input my flight plan all over again... [17 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Equipment PCs, servers, printers, cooling systems - all come with an embodied carbon footprint. In fact, it only serves to perpetuate the misguided notion that IT is to be treated at arm's length as an isolated part of... [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. The Naked CIO: Business... [11 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Such systems could be the difference between a housing market slowdown and a crash. They have only to ensure their risk assessment systems are sophisticated enough to provide real-time feedback on... [03 Jul 2008]
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