During the Gartner Symposium, earlier in November the analyst firm predicted that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As Computer Weekly previously reported, Gartner expects IT budgets ...
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An IT recruitment expert has criticised government pay thresholds for overseas IT workers in the UK, claiming it groups vastly different jobs together and sets salaries too low, presuming an IT director in the UK can earn as little as ...
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Enterprise cloud computing firm Salesforce.com has joined the UK government's G-Cloud framework, the cross-departmental initiative focused on introducing cloud computing across the public sector. It means government organisations can now ...
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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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Rolls-Royce has awarded a five-year contract to HP to host its applications,as part of the company's multi-vendor IT strategy. The news follows HP's loss of its large 12-year outsourcing deal with Rolls-Royce in March,with Capgemini named ...
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Condor Ferries has outsourced its business intelligence and collaboration services to a co-location datacentre. Hosting company C4L will manage the company's Sharepoint,email,finance and business intelligence capabilities. David ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims the IT behind its flagship Universal Credit (UC) project is being developed using agile principles. But just how agile is the £2.2bn seven-year project? Universal Credit is a complex ...
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Government’s addiction to mega-contracts has been pegged as a key factor in the exclusion of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) from the public sector IT market. Deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell (pictured below) and a number ...
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Jo Stanford joined the hotel and leisure chain De Vere Group six years ago as IT director. She says the backup challenges she faces in IT at De Vere Group are not specific just to her business. ''The challenge is what data you retain and ...
Department of Energy & Climate Change CIO Jennifer Rigby has said that e-procurement and cloud will drive the government's green IT strategy. Rigby is also chair of the government's green ICT delivery unit (GDU), a cross-departmental, ...
When it comes to good government IT strategy, only collaboration will work in the long term, according to Hord Tipton, executive director of professional certification body (ISC)2. But after that, governments should stop trying to ...
Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2012 to general availability with a strong message that the operating system will capitalise on the growing importance of cloud and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing. "This is one of the most ...
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David Weymouth, group director of operations and risk at insurance giant RSA, talks to Computer Weekly about the importance of training the next generation of IT leaders; the key changes affecting finance technology; and why a government ...
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Ex-government CIO Joe Harley has hit back at his former deputy CIO Bill McCluggage's claims that the government is unable to achieve its IT goals. Harley worked with McCluggage in his year in charge of government ICT before retiring from ...
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Edinburgh Airport has selected cloud service provider Onyx Group to host its mission-critical IT infrastructure in a £3m deal because of its "speed to market and local presence", according to the airport's head of IT, Graeme Agnew. ...
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