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Industrial companies to pick up tech lead from financial services and consumers

Internet tools are just starting to be applied to industrial tasks such as maintaining equipment and optimising operations, but the wealth of data being produced by industrial systems could make this a major focus of development in the coming years.

IT chief at the Caterham F1 team Bill Peters hopes some background changes can help change the struggling outfits changes on the track

Head of group IT at the Caterham F1 team Bill Peters hopes supporting a connected mobile workforce will help the struggling Formula 1 outfit improve their fortunes on the track as the season progresses.

But CIOs and other tech executives say the spying scandal underscores the need for strong corporate security measures

Revelations over the US National Security Agency's Prism surveillance programme have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions.

What users are really clamoring for is a full Office version for iPads, analysts say

Microsoft's release of an Office suite for the iPhone is too little, too late and yet another timid move aimed at protecting Windows 8 sales at the expense of customer demand for a product like this one for iPads, according to analysts.

It's time for CEOs to get more involved in the long-term planning of IT infrastructure

Today, every business is a technology business. Whether a company sells ice cream, car components or insurance, the chances are that technology will enable – or at least influence – its processes, communications, production and the delivery of its products and services.

How does owning a data centre compare to outsourcing and the financial implications of location

These days we are challenged more than ever on how best to consolidate our existing data centre estates while ensuring sufficient new capacity is available for meeting immediate and future IT requirements. Three to six month IT planning windows are now the norm which can make this balancing act even harder.

Forrester analysts predict life for the CIO of 2020

The IT department of 2020 could disappear as a separate entity and become embedded in departments throughout the entire organisation, according to analysts Forrester.

Associated Newspaper's IT leader David Henderson is worried and working towards a better gender balance

The latest CIO 100 list features only five female CIOs. This year in the UK, only one in 10 Computer Science graduates will be female. Women contribute less than 2% of open source software and file less than 5% of technology patents. Less than 10% of venture capitalists who invest in technology businesses are women.