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Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment Smart CIOs will also look at how these payment models affect operational performance in your organisation and properly prepare the business for the true costs. Most bonuses and incentives are based on operational... [19 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News Research by Gartner earlier this year predicted one in five businesses will be using virtualisation by year's end - up from 12 per cent in 2008.silicon.com's CIO Agenda research also found many heads of IT are eyeing the technology, with... [11 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News Steve Jobs' agenda-setting wasn't the only popular Apple article on silicon.com last month: an article entitled why CIOs are saying no to Macs, which polled the CIO Jury on the Mac vs PC debate also proved a hit with... [09 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News But many organisations have found the key is to align green goals with broader cost-cutting initiatives - which are definitely in vogue with CIOs and CFOs. Forrester analyst Chris Mines has come up with a list of... [29 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News As virtualisation advances and the choice of hardware and OS becomes less important, CIOs need to develop a five- to eight-year plan around client computing, says Gartner. 2009 may not be over yet but... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News But for some CIOs on older OSes, the cost impetus to adopt Windows 7 is already stacking up, thanks to the aging nature of Windows XP. For CIOs looking to build a case for the adoption of Windows 7 in... [21 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet A silicon.com CIO Jury found a cautious approach among CIOs, with just one of the IT chiefs polled saying they plan to adopt the operating system in 2010, with 2011 cited as a likely rollout date by a number of tech bosses. [20 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News CIOs faced with budget cuts and tougher conditions this year appear to have made the most stringent cutbacks around hardware, which saw enterprise spending fall by 16.5 per cent year-on-year in 2009. The... [20 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News IT departments around the world are wasting money supporting millions of servers that are not doing any useful work, and could make significant savings by decommissioning the hardware instead, it has been claimed. [19 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News While CIOs may be content to keep Macs in the departments they've always occupied, end users have other ideas, gradually introducing Apple machines into enterprises by the back door. But the business world remains immune... [02 Oct 2009]
Macs more likely to be used on your network but you didn't pay for them
Comment But in this exclusive article, in response to the CIO Jury findings, Michael Silver, research VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner argues that just because CIOs aren't buying Macs, that doesn't mean they won't appear... [21 Sep 2009]
The Effectiveness of Carrier-Based Wireless Broadband: "The Clear Choice for Enterprises"
White Paper As the managers of an Enterprise's network, CIOs and IT managers have a major investment in the new hardware/software, devices and wireless mobile service solutions they plan to deploy throughout their... [04 Aug 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo But the most important tech event for silicon.com in June was the launch of the 2009 CIO50, our list of the 50 most influential CIOs in the UK. June saw plenty of activity on the hardware and software... [03 Jul 2009]
World's IT spending to plummet by 10 per cent
News The plummeting spend will be felt across all areas of tech, with hardware suffering the most - equipment purchases will be down 13.5 per cent year-on-year - while outsourcing will be comparatively better off with a 8.6... [30 Jun 2009]
Businesses lift the lid on virtualisation rollouts
News For Neil Spellings, systems engineer for Allen & Overy, one of the main challenges with the deployment has been integrating the system with the differing IT infrastructures of the regional offices, which he likened to working with 15... [24 Jun 2009]
