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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

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.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[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...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment 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 and applications that...

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment The choice can seem mind-boggling if you take all these vendors and review them alongside other content security specialists such as ScanSafe, which specialises in managed services for web security; Bloxx with appliances for web security; and anti...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment At a modest estimate I have passed through well over 200 airport terminals - and hence their security systems - right across the planet including Australia, Europe, the Far East, the Middle East and Scandinavia, since 9/11.

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment These claims are most commonly made for expensive, high end videoconferencing systems - such as Cisco's TelePresence or HP's Halo - where the tech does everything it can to make you feel as if you are just across the table from your colleagues...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?

Comment This ranges from individuals managing banks accounts online and tracking the progress of goods ordered online, to whole groups of businesses sharing centralised supply-chain management systems. But actually measuring how distributed a business is...

Tags: distributed working, networks

[24 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment That growth is partly because smart operating systems are filtering down from desktop computers and laptops into handheld middle-tier devices, as users demand that desktop and internet applications bridge the divide between computer and phone.

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[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. Who controls printing and imaging? Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window.

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

Comment Yes it is, especially when it comes to areas such as regulatory exposure, loss of information and downtime of IT systems. They risk cutting the very thing that could get them out of trouble, says Martin Atherton.

Tags: value, recession, budgets

[18 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment We can only hope we shall see a return to sanity with the advent of new and leaner operating systems, and efficient code writers guided by sound design principles founded on well understood and documented human factors.

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 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. But a ruthless overhaul of poor banking systems is crucial to putting rogue traders out of...

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of sale systems, mobile phones and security systems. Today this translates into living and dying by your own...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

Centralised or decentralised IT?

Comment In industry after industry, companies that built computer systems faster than competitors have gained profound business process advantages. This model is most useful in companies with legacy environments that often split their technology platforms...

Tags: centralisation, software, development

[09 Apr 2008]

Recession fears hit IT budgets

Comment There is also demand for skills around SAP Basis - the range of middleware programs and tools from the ERP giant that enable its modules to be interoperable across operating systems and databases. The state of the economy and its potential impact...

Tags: cio agenda

[04 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment This allowed the staff to familiarise themselves with the systems and get actual hands-on experience before the station was opened to Eurostar traffic. On the bright side, thanks to passengers refusing to be finger printed, problems with the "high...

Tags: laptop, t5, heathrow, mobile

[03 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

Comment Teradata is one, but also the other major systems integrators. There are some big concerns around the complexity of software now and I think there's a big responsibility on the vendor community to focus on quality and support as systems get more...

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

How did the Heathrow T5 launch go so wrong?

Comment The demos I watched of the state-of-the-art systems and technology were extremely impressive and, following extensive testing, it all seemed pretty much ready to go several weeks (and in some cases months) in advance of its opening on 27 March.

Tags: airport, testing, baa, ba

[28 Mar 2008]

Box-tickers risk serious data breaches

Comment However, as an abstract document detailing the nature of management systems, it won't give you a step-by-step guide to what security controls you should be managing. Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying...

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Animal farm

Comment They set up systems that honestly assess and prioritise projects. IT projects should be prioritised according to business benefits. That's fine in principle, says the Naked CIO. But this must happen without ignorance, hierarchy and petty rivalries.

Tags: development, software, evaluation, projects

[25 Mar 2008]

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