Management

NASA employee scammed with "dating"attack

The latest targeted attack incident being studied by security pros - a simple online dating scam that endangered NASA's secrets.

Test automation: Making IT easier

"It used to take four people five days to test the software every month," says Kevin Bingham, vice president of IT at Arizona Federal Credit Union. "Now, we can do it in six hours."

E.on's roadmap to reduced energy consumption

Real business drivers for 'Green' or sustainable IT are now very clear, despite the industry hype and greenwashing. The question for CIOs and IT managers is not 'should I be doing something about Green IT' but 'how do I implement Green IT?'

Heathrow Terminal 5 chaos: RoundUp

Heathrow's Terminal 5 opening Thursday was plagued by IT problems, delayed flights and a protest at the London air hub.

WLAN overcomes despair in the T5 departure lounge

How do you build wireless services for a giant building that contains multiple businesses, millions of users and has very high security demands?

WAN acceleration on the ocean wave

Two cruise lines try WAN optimisation, one choosing a single-ended solution and the other picking two-ended technology.

Servers go front and centre

General Motors might be globalising its business, but in the area of servers, the auto-maker is thinking small.

Driven by demand at Standard & Poor's

Applying the lean production methods of revered car-maker Toyota to a very different business means Jora Gill, VP for international business systems, is ahead of the game

Tesco storm the US with Box offering

Grocery giant Tesco is creating a storm in the US market with its 'Tesco in a Box' set of systems. CIO takes a look inside the package with Tesco’s group technology director, Mike Yorwerth

Terminal 5 to put London back on map, says British Airways CIO

With critics citing Heathrow Airport as a major black mark against London, BA’s CIO, Paul Coby, explains how Terminal 5 is set to put the capital back on the map

Gannett’s virtualisation vet lets us pick his brain

Eric Kuzmack, IT architect at Gannett newspaper publisher talks about using virtualisation, and the problems of supervising an enormous IT infrastructure.

BMC's William Hurley talks up Open Source

The skateboarding IT expert shares his views on Open source and his predictions for the future.

Transport Police ITIL project hits goal

British Transport Police (BTP) has adopted IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) methodology and seen a dramatic improvement in the delivery of its IT programmes as well as end user satisfaction, according to CIO Andrew Watson.

Met Office streamlines processes for quicker development

This summer, with its terrible floods, has ensured that one area of government has been particularly busy – the Met Office.

A CTO that belongs in the zoo

Pandas and condors? It's all part of the day job for Robert Erhadt, chief technology officer for the Zoological Society of San Diego.

A network-upgrade horror story, part 2: bidding the project

An IT executive tells the key lessons that he learnt during a four-year project to revamp his university's whole network.

A network-upgrade horror story... part 1

An IT executive tells the key lessons that he learnt during a four-year project to revamp his university's whole network.

The case for outsourcing email management

Adecco Group chose to shift the responsibility for malware protection to a specialist, and reduce risks of downtime, by outsourcing its email management to a provider.

Software fights Underground leaf problem

One of London's most heavily used Underground lines can run more quickly during autumn, thanks to a software program that predicts the impact of an unlikely enemy: falling leaves.

Mac attack!

It's little things like the small silver Apple logo on CIO Dale Frantz's crisp white shirt that signal the sea change in the works at Auto Warehousing Company.

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