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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]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Doran's key priority is defining and building the strategic IT direction for Network Rail as well as delivering the technology - infrastructure and applications - that support its mission-critical engineering and rail operations. [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Thompson
CIO Profile Although he has techie experience in BIS applied systems and project management at CSC, Ian Thompson's career has mainly stayed in the realms of investment banking, with stints at UBS Investment Banking, NatWest Markets and ABN Amro. [11 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment Apple certainly isn't the first manufacturer to realise the importance of third-party development on a phone but it might prove to be one of the critical moves that captures the hearts and minds of consumers and indeed the developer community. [23 Apr 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment On top of all this, few organisations have document accounting systems that accurately measure the true usage for printing and imaging. Despite the growth in digital communications and promises of the paperless office, printed documents remain... [22 Apr 2008]
Why IT must escape the belt-tightening
Comment Add some other, less obvious but nonetheless business critical factors: is risk to the business increased because of the state of the economy? That last point is critical. Yes it is, especially when it comes to areas such as regulatory exposure... [18 Apr 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment It follows that effective and efficient exception monitoring then becomes a critical necessity but, all too often, is an after-thought in systems design. Armed with knowledge of the organisation's processes and access to critical systems, employees... [15 Apr 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment The almost continuous operation of IT systems is taken as a given in many organisations. Open standards and universal connectivity have now rendered the network critical and visible to almost any application. [21 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Does anyone have Vista on 'mission critical systems'? No one should be installing/testing/running beta releases on any critical system. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [17 Jan 2008]
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment First, there is the traditional paranoia about the risks associated with letting someone else run your systems and store your sensitive and business-critical data. As a small and highly distributed business, with neither the time nor the... [16 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment
Comment The demand for wireless systems has mushroomed over the past 50 years, and nowhere has it become more critical than in defence. In extreme cases systems cannot be simultaneously operated and facilities become time- and space-limited. [07 Jan 2008]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment The financial sector is 10 years behind the times in its approach to management - partly because banking systems are supposed to be too complicated to provide real-time information. Any delay in systems administration can have serious consequences. [02 Jan 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment You can't expect to have efficient systems unless you monitor them. If it carries on, it's going to bring down a critical component of your network and cause a business process to fail. A PC will give systems management tools a certain amount of... [10 Dec 2007]
Where is outsourcing heading?
Comment Business-critical and life-critical IT services cannot move forward if they continue to be produced in the current artisan style. Analyst firm Gartner describes this industrialisation as the standardisation of IT services through pre-designed and... [05 Dec 2007]
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment Here, knowledge of IT and planning is even more critical. Speed is critical. Rapid integration of the infrastructure creates the foundation for new and more complex business-facing systems and capabilities. [25 Sep 2007]
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