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RSS government cioLeaked report reveals billions in budget cuts for public sector IT
News The report, prepared by the CIO Council and the Cabinet Office, details how the government could cut billions from its IT budget each year. The leaked draft document, Government ICT... [30 Nov 2009]
Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
News Another negative came last month in response to the question of whether the UK will ever create a software giant to rival the likes of Microsoft, Google or Oracle.silicon.com's CIO Jury voted 10 to two against the... [30 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News Chant, who is also the CIO for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), believes the government has now laid the groundwork to trim the 460,000 tonnes of CO2 pumped out by Whitehall IT each year. [13 Nov 2009]
The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Center: A New Approach and Use of an Old Science
White Paper Plus, with a dubious global economic climate, the CEO/CIO are challenged more than ever in finding ways to reduce every dollar of operational cost for the enterprise and remain competitive. Many standards, technologies... [11 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News That's the sobering conclusion of the silicon.com CIO Jury which voted 10 to two against, when asked whether the UK could create a global software business to rival the technology industry's most powerful companies. [03 Nov 2009]
Barack Obama
AS Profile Since then the BlackBerry-loving President has made a start on realising his promise to be one of the US' most tech-savvy leaders and has appointed a CIO and CTO to help him. US President Barack Obama entered the White... [08 Oct 2009]
FISMA: Achieving and Maintaining Compliance to Ensure Security of Systems and Data
White Paper The case studies highlight how a CIO, Information Systems Owner and Authorizing Officer approach and manage the internal issues of demonstrating FISMA compliance, and how they meet many of those challenges with Tripwire... [06 Oct 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile As the man with the burden of overseeing the annual public sector IT spend of £16bn, the importance of government CIO John Suffolk cannot be overstated. Suffolk and the CIO Council are... [30 Sep 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Before being appointed as CIO Kundra had served as CTO for Washington DC, where he was praised for making bureaucratic systems more efficient and transparent and drawing on applications from Google and Apple. [30 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News Some open source vendors believe the government needs to get tougher with public sector bodies that are failing to pay proper attention to the CIO Council's policy. In February the CIO... [29 Sep 2009]
HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News Treasury CIO Karen Delafield said the deal would help deliver a "modern, flexible, secure and resilient ICT service". The Treasury is the latest government organisation to access the Flex shared services... [25 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News Speaking at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the administration's first formal efforts to roll out a broad system designed to take advantage of existing infrastructure and, in... [17 Sep 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment In his blog, government CIO John Suffolk echoes Read's calls for increased oversight. Government spends loads of cash on IT with few returns. It's a hard lesson to learn - particularly... [17 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Jos Creese, who sits on the government's CIO Council - a group of CIOs from across central and local government that discuss IT issues affecting the public sector - told silicon.com... [03 Aug 2009]
CIOs, consultants, IT pros: How much are you worth?
News What about a CIO in the North West? However the lowest CIO salary flagged by the research is £30k for a permanent CIO working in East Anglia. However London is not necessarily the best... [31 Jul 2009]
