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RSS software ciosPay 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. Elsewhere in the IT job market,... [23 Nov 2009]
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. With the advent and popularity of cloud computing,... [19 Nov 2009]
Clustering on Check Point IP Appliances
White Paper Providing secure communications to customers and employees has become a high priority for CIOs and security officers, and to provide secure communications, various security appliances are deployed at key points in a... [13 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]
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]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News However, CIOs have told silicon.com that they don't intend to upgrade to Windows 7 in 2010, and are instead likely to hold out until the year after. But after all these years of development, which operating system... [09 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News But there are significant rewards for CIOs willing to tough it out, Cheesbrough said, with TMG finding a spike in staff satisfaction and productivity six months after users completed their move to the new system. [04 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News While some CIOs are enthusiastic about the potential savings that can be made, others still warn of the hidden costs that can lie in wait for the unwary.silicon.com's latest CIO Jury came down strongly against the uptake... [28 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. Staff will get access to... [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. CIOs... [23 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 The news is not all good for CIOs, however: for more than half of tech chiefs, budgets won't grow in real terms next year while spending will only return to 2008 levels in 2012. CIOs shouldn't expect a... [20 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Gartner analyst Rakesh Kumar told silicon.com that because project managers buy more new hardware and new software for each project, consolidation is not happening - and that IT departments need to be going back and... [19 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
News Budget considerations should also be front of mind for CIOs - according to Gartner figures, moving from XP to Windows 7 could cost between $1,035 to $1,930 per user depending on how the rollout is managed, while costs... [15 Oct 2009]
