Computerworld-ORLANDO--Enterprises won't move quickly to adopt Windows 8,and most will wait till the year after next,according to market research firm Gartner. Users at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo conference tended to back up the view that ...
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Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman took to the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo here Wednesday looking to convince customers that HP is on solid footing. She emphasized the tech pioneer's commitment to research and development, security ...
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Insurance company NFU Mutual is to automate its paper-based claims handling using business process management tools from Tibco. The multimillion pound project will help the rural insurer streamline its claims-management processes across ...
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"Technology should be irrelevant," says Gavin Walker, CIO of the UK's air traffic control business, NATS. Walker is a firm believer in focusing on what IT can enable, rather than the technology for its own sake. As CIO, he heads a ...
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The IT supporting the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics was hit by cyber attacks every day during the Games,including some that were well organised and automated and one in particular that was a major assault. London 2012 CIO Gerry ...
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Computerworld-SANTA CLARA,CALIF.--Prior to instituting a change management program,the IT group at financial and tax preparation software company Intuit took eight weeks to complete a business developer's service ticket. As in many ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will mark"the end"of the computer industry's dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives,Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows 8 is a ...
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Computerworld - HP has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house, the two companies announced Thursday. GM CIO Randy Mott said the car company hopes to add the ...
The CIO of professional services firm PwC UK,Dominique Moreau,has hit back at remarks made by his Groupama Insurances counterpart Jem Eskenazi that the CIO role is set to disappear in the next 15 to 20 years,by declaring that"the CIO role ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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Leading users of the government's Public Services Network (PSN) have complained that the service is underdeveloped, despite the £2bn of public funds, and four years' planning, that went into the network's launch in March this year. ...
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Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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There is no question the Public Services Network(PSN)has been gaining momentum over the past 12 months.The"network of networks"to enable local services to save cash by using shared infrastructure and having better access to applications has ...
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Cloud computing is an opportunity information security professionals should not miss,according to Philippe Courtot,chairman and CEO of security company Qualys. "This is a fantastic and opportunity to sit down with the CIO and the ...
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