technology infrastructure services in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Why boards get IT spend so wrong
Comment So tell me this: how do I stimulate innovation yet convince our board that spending on critical services and infrastructure is as essential to growth and customer service as speculative new ventures?... [11 Aug 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment The first step in this plan is what Pavitt calls the "infrastructure 101" - making sure all the fundamentals at the network and core infrastructure level are there, removing single points of failure,... [29 Jul 2008]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile He is in charge of delivering the overall business change programme and building the core infrastructure of process and technology. Since that time he has spent 10 years in various roles with Information... [11 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... [11 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment She joined Birds Eye Iglo last year with a remit to essentially build a completely new IT infrastructure and function for the organisation after it was sold off to private equity group Permira by Unilever. [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile Underpinning this is a recently completed virtualised IP infrastructure for Alliance & Leicester's branch network, ATMs and call centres. Before joining Alliance & Leicester, Buchanan spent 17 years in... [11 Jun 2008]
Where will the Silicon Dragon swoop next?
Comment The legal infrastructure needs to be developed and the financial infrastructure and issues like intellectual property protection. China has already made its presence felt on the world... [03 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment He has been credited with helping to transform the IT infrastructure of one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative companies. The firm acts for governments, Fortune 500 companies and technology... [03 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Without some serious upgrading of the infrastructure this situation will remain for a lot of people - in fact, as more people connect through the same exchanges these speeds are likely to get worse. Not sure where and... [29 May 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment Here the demand side works independently with supply groups that develop applications and run the technology infrastructure. In addition, there is an infrastructure group. The second is... [09 Apr 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment Outsourcing these functions and responsibilities to a global technology specialist means the outsource supplier carries the risks and not the client - giving financial services companies the support they... [04 Feb 2008]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment Or within other critical national infrastructure? For instance, what would happen if there was a catastrophic failure of data security within the heart of the already-creaking financial services sector,... [27 Nov 2007]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment Technology isn't the starting point, explains John Pironti, a member of the education board for the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and chief risk strategist at IT services firm Getronics. [02 Jul 2007]
Darin Brumby
CIO Profile Brumby joined Aberdeen-based FirstGroup - the UK's largest passenger transportation company, with a turnover in excess of £3bn per year - as CIO in 2003 and was faced with a failing infrastructure, rising IT costs and a... [06 Jun 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Partition mobility (or VM mobility) - the ability to move running virtual servers between physical servers without service interruption - is key to the ability to produce an always-on, flexible shared-services... [15 May 2007]
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