it director of in 2007
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, welcomed Canonical to the organisation. Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. [20 Aug 2008]
CIOs scouring the jobs pages
News Matt Smith, director of UK regions at Harvey Nash, said in a statement: "Our analysis over the last few years has shown a significant amount of job browsing by senior IT professionals but decreasing levels of actual movement. [19 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing takeover is imminent
News Partha Iyengar, regional research director at Gartner, said in a statement: "The emerging mega-vendors have made dramatic progress in the past few years and have more than doubled their revenue in a four-year period, with the 2007 revenue being... [14 Aug 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News Peter Allen, partner and managing director of TPI, said in a statement: "Companies across industry segments are expressing their concerns regarding the uncertain business conditions by taking steps to reduce operational costs, and the outsourcing... [18 Jul 2008]
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White Paper Director of Service Development, and John Devenyns, Sr. Begin a plan to reduce the IT costs and resources associated with managing your organization's email system. View this on-demand webinar to learn how USA.NET can help you solve seven costly... [15 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News The survey claims "virtualisation is mainstream and is becoming a standard deployment platform for applications in data centres around Europe", according to Chris Ingle, research director for IDC's European systems group. [08 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News Group CIO and technology director Dargue scored the most votes to top silicon.com's CIO50 2008 list of the 50 most influential and innovative IT leaders in the UK - read our exclusive in-depth interview with him here. [11 Jun 2008]
Graham Young
CIO Profile Prior to Foster + Partners, Young worked for the Atkins Group over 20 years in a number of senior roles including head of IS for Atkins Rail, infrastructure operations manager and corporate systems director before being promoted to group systems... [11 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment Highest ranked on the list, at number four, is Catherine Doran, director of information management at Network Rail, where she is responsible for an IT budget of almost £140m and defining and building the strategic IT direction for the organisation. [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Arthurs started out as an IT analyst at Beecham Group, then worked his way up the IT career ladder at Safeway over a period of 14 years, moving from an IT project manager role to director of IT programme management, and finally director of IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile Previous to that, Didcock was group IT Director at the RAC for four years, head of IT at Mars Confectionery for three and in IS roles across disciplines in Mars and JP Morgan before that. Before arriving at Homeserve, Trevor Didcock was CIO at the... [11 Jun 2008]
Robin Dargue
CIO Profile For Robin Dargue the next challenge was Royal Mail, who he joined as group CIO and technology director at the end of 2007, replacing the retiring David Burden. He moved on to become IS director at UDV, which later became part of Guinness and then... [11 Jun 2008]
John Thorp
CIO Profile Thorp was previously IT director at no frills airline Easyjet and has also worked for the Burton Group and Compass Group. John Thorp has been the group CIO for electrical retail group DSG International (DSGi) - formerly known as the Dixons Stores... [11 Jun 2008]
"Mega" outsourcing deals decline
News Gartner research director Kurt Potter said in a statement: "Many clients want to test providers' contracting practices, capabilities and cultures before moving favoured providers into larger contracts, or organisations are using smaller doses of... [11 Jun 2008]
Workers waste company time online
News John Cridland, deputy director general of the CBI, said many businesses feel as long as the work gets done there's no problem with personal internet use as it can actually boost productivity and morale. [11 Jun 2008]
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