More than half of the peak-time traffic to the London 2012 Olympic Games' web servers came from mobile devices – a huge demonstration of the consumer switch to mobile at the highest–profile sporting event of the year. Users ...
Tags: mobile devices, web servers, mobile app, Gerry Pennell
The University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust was overloaded with case notes and referrals in paper form, resulting in misplacements of documents and unnecessary retesting of patients due to lost results. It decided to ...
Tags: paper form, EMC, case notes, content management system
Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
Tags: AWS public cloud, cloud-first, cloud-ready, Amazon
CSC has stemmed losses in its 10-year outsourcing deal with Royal Mail through a combination of job cuts, tax breaks and relief payments, according to an analysis of eight years of published accounts for the venture. The supplier signed ...
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Network Rail chief information officer (CIO) Susan Cooklin has taken on the added responsibility for finance and HR shared services. The expanded role, which has officially commenced on 30 November, sees Cooklin’s team expand from ...
Tags: Network Rail, HR shared services, finance, IT industry
Out with the old Delivering the “near-impossible” The agenda for 2013 Focus on Apple The next funding period Susan Cooklin has had an eventful 2012. The CIO at Network Rail delivered major technology upgrades, while driving ...
Tags: Apple, Susan Cooklin, technology upgrades, cycle of transformation
Hewlett-Packard has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to avoid missing out on "a huge segment of the population," CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, clarifying remarks she made last month. Whitman ...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - IT leaders say they enjoy working with startups, but doing so successfully requires understanding the level of risk, managing that risk and setting reasonable expectations. That was the consensus during a panel ...
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By Martin Sykes, A. Nicklas Malik and Mark D. West Anyone who has a business role to play in influencing others, needs to make their presentation stand out from the crowd and this extract from Stories That Move Mountains, published by ...
Tags: presentation skills, book, Story Mapping, Microsoft
The DNA of the CIO provides fresh insight into what it is to be a Chief Information Officer (CIO) today. For many years, CIOs have been talking about becoming a true partner to the business and the executive management team. But, as ...
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Companies seeking to enable enterprise-wide data analytics need a chief analytics officer (CAO) to lead the way, analysts say. The explosive growth in corporate data over the past few years has created both an opportunity and a challenge ...
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The US has confirmed it will resist efforts by China, Russia and their allies to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The confirmation came in a statement issued by the US Department of State on US proposals to be ...
Tags: internet, telecommunications, network, IT industry
Tesco has launched a smartphone-friendly virtual supermarket online shopping system at Gatwick airport to enable travellers to place an order before they fly. While waiting for their flights, users can use their smartphones to scan ...
Tags: supermarket, online shopping system, smartphone, phone apps
U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years. Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to ...
Tags: U.S., Cloud, IT, IT services
A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes. This is one finding of a research report from IBM and the Sad Business School at the University of Oxford. Analytics: the real-world use of big ...
Tags: analytics skills, data programme, IT industry, data