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News Plumpton decided the best approach was to end its existing outsourcing deals, bring infrastructure management and business analysis roles back in house and to sign a deal with a single outsourcer Atos Origin to handle... [24 Nov 2009]
Pay for IT chiefs weathers the storm
News More than half of the CIOs and IT directors who responded to this year's survey reported annual salaries in excess of £70,001 - up on last year when less than half earned that much. Despite the cost-cutting forced on... [23 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment As Nick Kirkland, chief executive of IT leaders' forum CIO Connect, says: "Most CIOs I know are considering [UCC] projects rather than doing them. To realise the full benefits of UCC requires a major change... [17 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News The greatest success has been participation of the CIOs, CTOs and all those people in the ICT profession within government - it has been amazing," he told the Green IT Expo in London this week. Measures being implemented... [13 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Is IT responsible for workers' output and errors?
Comment In my experience CIOs and IT management tend to be reactive and too often deflect responsibility of problems onto others. Moreover is it the responsibility of CIOs to reign in bad... [10 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]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Vincent is also planning to talk to the CIOs of its sister companies Tata Technologies and outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services about how they could work more closely together in future. In future, with the IT... [26 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury. In contrast, several... [23 Oct 2009]
Panic slowly. Integrated disaster response and built-in business continuity
White Paper IBM's point of view paper helps CIOs and IT professionals assess their company's own preparedness, examine new approaches and technologies, and explore the business justification for investing in disaster preparedness... [21 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News As many as 4.7 million servers worldwide - more than 15 per cent of the global total - are merely consuming energy without serving any productive purpose, according to a study sponsored by IT power management company 1E. [19 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Research company Forrester said enterprise architects (EA) should build a list of technologies to watch, for CIOs to use to educate business peers and influence their strategy. Other technologies judged by Forrester to... [12 Oct 2009]
Simplifying the Management of Tier 1 ERP Systems for Mid-Sized Companies
White Paper When CEOs, CFOs and CIOs of mid-sized companies face the prospect of transitioning to a top-tier enterprise application system, one of the most problematic issues they must address is maintaining and upgrading the system... [07 Oct 2009]
Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments
White Paper Virtualization is the hottest technology for CIOs today with it ranked one of the top 5 important trends for 2008 according to a recent poll from CIO Insight.6 With the cost-savings, agility and convenience... [06 Oct 2009]
Unified Communications and Desktop Integration
White Paper The Alcatel-Lucent open standards-based solutions for IBM Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes solve the needs of a dispersed work force by connecting desktop and voice communications, providing CIOs and IT managers with lower... [02 Oct 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News While there may be no pressing reason to shift away from Microsoft products for many CIOs, Apple products continue to make their way into the business, according to Kevin Fitzpatrick, CIO Northern Europe of food and... [21 Sep 2009]
