The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) CIO Philip Langsdale has passed away at the age of 56. Langsdale, who is understood to have passed away suddenly on 22 December, was director of IT at Asda between 1992 and 1997, as well as chief ...
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Email is a commodity,says Brett Goldstein,Chicago's CIO,and that's why he's moving it to a cloud. The Windy City said Thursday it is migrating email and desktop applications to Microsoft's cloud services for about 30,000 employees. This ...
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Computerworld-Research in Motion CIO Robin BienAfait's last name means"well done"in French.She's hoping customers will agree that those words apply to the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones that Waterloo,Ontario-based RIM is due to ship in ...
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CIO-When 2011 budget cuts forced the state of Iowa to close 36 of 55 employment offices,government officials looked for ways to keep providing services to residents,90,000 of whom were out of work. Using desktop virtualization tools,the ...
CIO-I'll never forget a conversation I had with the head of IT at PepsiCo's Pizza Hut division in 1984.At the time,Pizza Hut's technology operation was completely mainframe-based.The IT chief(who had a PhD in computer science)told me ...
IDG News Service-U.S.government agencies have long used open-source software.Now,some agencies are embracing the collaborative development model of open-source software development and are releasing code back to the wider community. The ...
CIO-Regardless of the security expertise and resources you apply to securing your assets,you are unlikely to achieve much unless you focus on the most vulnerable element of your organization:your employees. "Computers have become much ...
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CIO - Get ready to answer more questions from your board of directors about social media, new business models and competitive intelligence. Board members expect to spend more time on IT this year and recognize that they haven't paid much ...
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IDG News Service-The rapid expansion of business data poses challenges for companies across Europe,especially in the UK,per Aberdeen Group's research report Business Analytics in the UK:Transforming Data into Business Insight. ...
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CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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IDG News Service - Preparing quick service pizza chain Domino's (ASX:DMP) for a digital future is top priority for Group CIO, Wayne McMahon. Based in Brisbane, McMahon has been in charge of IT at the company for the past 19 months and ...
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Computerworld - General Motors, which is insourcing the majority of its IT work, Friday said it is hiring 500 IT positions in Austin to staff a new "innovation center." The announcement is part of far-reaching GM plan to hire as many as ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong-General Electric(GE),founded 125 years ago,is one of the USA's iconic corporations.The firm has 300,000 employees working in areas ranging from aviation,healthcare,transportation,financials,and energy.The firm ...
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CIO - When it comes to securing business-technology systems, CIOs face a challenge that won't go away. The problem isn't necessarily new attack techniques, insecure software or even the latest government regulations. Rather, it's the ...
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