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CIO blog
Richard Steel is CIO of Newham, a London borough in transition. It will be home of the 2012 Olympics and is rapidly leaving behind its legacy of decline following the closure of London’s Docklands IT is at the centre of the area's efforts to reinvent itself as a centre of commerce and culture. This blog spells out some of what is going on. This blog appears on the Newham Counil intranet as part of CIO RIchard Steel's communications strategy with his team. It is repeated on Computerworld UK a week later.
Latest post: Dining with the father of the web
I’ve had one or two conversations with Microsoft and Buying Solutions colleagues about what was to happen to the PSA09 licensing deal.
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HART of outsourcing
Martyn Hart, chairman of the National Outsourcing Association, looks at the lessons to be learnt from the IT and business news
Latest post: HR outsourcing under the microscope
This week, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has released a report entitled, HR outsourcing and the HR function: Threat or Opportunity, which focuses on approximately 300 UK HR professionals within a variety of organisations, public and private.
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Forrester view: IT infrastructure & operations
Forrester Research analysts comment on issues critical to infrastructure and operations professionals.
Latest post: What do green it, the economic crisis, and best selling author, Thomas Friedman, all have in common? Poor accounting
Consider the following questions posed by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and more recently, Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America:
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Forrester View: Security & risk
Forrester Research analysts comment on issues critical to security and risk professionals.
Latest post: The impact of regulatory change
The regulatory environment is changing. How will this affect us?
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Burton Blogs: Executive Advisory
The Executive Advisory blog keep you up to date with the mutually dependent, relationships that IT and the business have with each other and how to make changes that utilise each other's progress
Latest post: IT value - we reap what we sow
How does your organisation define the value of IT? Many IT organisations have defined their value based on the ability to deal with complexity. Many times we pride ourselves on how much complexity we deal with.
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The final front tier of SOA
Dharmesh Mistry has supported financial services organisations with technology and management expertise for over 20 years. Dharmesh is currently the acting CTO of edge IPK focusing on developing and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Latest post: Small is most definitely beautiful
Compliance remains a crucial technology issue. IT leaders have been smothered by a raft of regulatory requirements in the last few years, and the combined hit of environmental concerns and the economic downturn is only likely to make matters worse.
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Clued up on cybercrime
Graham Cluley is one of the world's leading experts in viruses and spam, and works as Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos.
Latest post: Cybercriminals stalk dead celebrities
The deaths of well-known figures such as Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett have resulted in hackers exploiting the news, before much of the public will have even had the opportunity to digest the headlines over their breakfast bowl of cornflakes.
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Editor's blog
Editor Mike Simons' take on the news with the occasional wry insight thrown in for good measure.
Latest post: Cloud computing and employment rights
Very interesting note by Philip Carnelley on the techmarketview.com site on Software as a service, cloud computing and employment rights.
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What problem management can do for you
Paul Offord, chairman of ITSMF Problem Management special interest group and founder Advance7, looks at why, how and where the IT industry and business in general can benefit from problem management.
Latest post: IT in Saudi Arabia, what’s really driving change?
I recently returned from a business trip to Riyadh - my first visit to Saudi Arabia and it was rather interesting, a real mix of tradition and modernisation.
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IT governance: The Kapteyn’s view
Arno Kapteyn is a Managing Consultant at Capgemini. His field of expertise is primarily IT Governance with a secondary focus of IT Risk, IT Compliance, IT Security, IT Service Management and IT architecture.
Latest post: The IT supply chain
One of my favourite books is The World is Flat from Thomas L. Friedman. In this book he describes a number of technological developments and how they lead to globalisation.
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Business Analyst
Business analysis has come of age. Organisations accept that we need business analysis, but do they understand it? Alex Papworth, of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), wants this blog to help. Alex blogs for business analysts at www.bamentor.com, the source of some of these posts.
Latest post: Measuring the performance of business analysts:
Good measures can greatly improve an organisation's ability to identify problems and opportunities and obtain tangible results from its improvement efforts.
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Open Enterprise
Glyn Moody's look at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. The blog will look at the organisations that are embracing open source, old and new alike (start-ups welcome), and the communities of users and developers that have formed around them (or not, as the case may be).
Latest post: Bye-bye IE6, Bye-bye IE?
News that usage of Internet Explorer 6 has now fallen below that of Internet Explorer 8 (despite the latter's bizarre vomiting ads) is interesting because it is boring: it was inevitable at some point. But it possesses huge symbolic importance.
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Green Monk
I am the co-founder of analyst RedMonk, the community-based analyst firm. I'm 36 and married with a boy. I talk too much, but i do actually listen.
http://www.greenmonk.net
Latest post: The lowdown on carbon offsets
The idea behind “offsetting” carbon emissions is that, while you are emitting some carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a result of your activities, you can counterbalance these emissions by contributing to a project somewhere else that will reduce emissions.
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Enterprise OS: How hard can it be?
Written by staff at Sirius Corporation, the Open Source services group, this blog seeks to dispel any FUD around the use of Open Source software in the Enterprise and provide perspectives on business, economics, politics, philosophy and the environment.
Latest post: Does this cloud have an Azure coloured lining?
There are fine lines between realism and cynicism, wariness and paranoia and never more so when trying to piece together what a particularly slippery government is doing.
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Test Driven
David Evans is Director of Methodology at software quality and testing consultancy SQS. These are the ruminations of a software quality methodologist, and friends.
Latest post: Tesco suffers from failing to test
Tesco, the largest supermarket chain in Britain, was faced with closing many of its stores and creating long queues and angry customers in others yesterday, due to a defective overnight software upgrade.
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Open source hearts and minds
Dr Ian Howells is chief marketing officer of Alfresco the open source content management company. He has 20 years of enterprise software marketing experience in content management, service oriented architectures and relational database systems. He publishes the pioneering Open Source Barometer.
Latest post: Can Wolfram Alpha Answer this? Where does the UK Government Spend its IT Budget?
I have been listening keenly to a podcast interview with Stephen Wolfram on Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram received his Ph.D in particle physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) at age 20.
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Tech_sceptic
Hype busting thoughts from the Editor in Chief of CIO magazine.
Latest post: The mainframe skills conundrum
A new survey from CA (the former Computer Associates) with Vanson Bourne -- The Mainframe: Surviving and Thriving in a Turbulent World -- suggests 83 per cent of UK IT chiefs expect to have problems with mainframe skills while 43 per cent are spending on training to address the issue.
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Forrester View: Application development & programme management
Forrester Research analysts comment on issues critical to application development and programme management professionals
Latest post: Cloudmania: Developers need a personal cloud
Cloudmania: Developers Need A Personal CloudCloud, Private Cloud, fill in the blank . Personal Cloud. Don't be surprised if you hear about the Personal Cloud. It is the next natural progression in Cloudmania.
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Open...
Glyn Moody has been a technology journalist and consultant for a quarter of a century, covering the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995. One early feature he wrote was for Wired in 1997: The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was. His most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, and Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising Science, Medicine and Business. He can be contacted at glyn.moody@gmail.com
Latest post: ID Database Breached Even Before It Exists
Well, I was expecting this, but not so soon
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MicroChick
Siobhan decided that the world would be far better off if she stuck to writing about technology, rather than trying to fix it as she can't even work a toaster without a touch of fire. When she's not cursing her computer, Siobhan can often be found racing around conference halls. Her philosophy degree has helped her to ponder the future of technology and its place in the business world.
Latest post: Something for the weekend? The halcyon days of British computing
If you fancy a geek outing this weekend, the fellows at Bletchley Park have launched a special exhibition featuring PCs dating from the 60's.
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Eco-Efficiency
Do the right thing and make it pay. Green IT reduces environmental impact, increases resource productivity, and can create a competitive advantage.
Latest post: Business travel – it’s all about the money
You’ve two ways to travel to a business meeting. By train for six hours, or by plane for two hours (including airport time).
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Beyond the perimeter
Amrit Williams is chief technology officer of enterprise systems and security management company BigFix. His previous job was a research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, where he covered audit and compliance, vulnerability and threat management, network security, security information and event management, risk management, and secure application development.
Latest post: Client-side virtualisation part III: HAL 9000, hosted virtual desktops, and the Death Star
Systems and security management is difficult, ineffective, costly and becoming ever more so in increasingly distributed, heterogeneous, complex, and mobile computing environments…
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Socitm blog
A blog by members of the Society for IT management's presidential and management teams. Socitm is the leading professional association for public sector ICT management.
Latest post: Council of the future
I’ve been thinking for some time about what the council of the future will look like – we gave that as a strapline to our new brochure earlier in the year, and it is the focus of the series of briefings we have been issuing each month.
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