CFO Expectations of IT


Follow us




CIO UK Blogs: Entries for November 2009

Leading CIOs RSS Feeds Subscribe to this blog

Leading CIOs

Mark Chillingworth

Mark became the News Editor of a consumer magazine initially before joining Sky TV as an online editor, which led to a stint producing television items. He then traveled for two years, before returning to be News Editor of publishing industry title Information World Review which he went on to edit before joining CIO in January 2008. As Editor of the online CIO title he is responsible for all online content and developments.

Mark Chillingworth

November 19, 2009

Government CIOs discuss the future at CGIT 2009

How government CIOs can lower costs but improve public service

I'm at the CGIT 2009 conference all day today and hope to bring you up to date with the issues discussed as the day goes on. This should be a...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

November 13, 2009

15 humorous definitions of CIO

Are these the real meanings for the CIOs job title or CFOs taking a pop?

Acronyms, our industry is awash with them, one of which being of course your humble job title. Officially we recognise it as being Chief...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

November 11, 2009

BPM is the CIO route to CEO

Challenge your organisation and then get the big job

The current Debate channel theme on CIO UK is business process management (BPM). A topic I was reticent to commit to, but our editorial partners...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

November 05, 2009

It really is rocket science, CERN tech impresses

Technology at CERN is almost out of this world, as is the complexity of the matter being researched

Although a technology title, CIO concentrates on the business story for technology and the business people behind it, commonly known as CIOs....

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth


CIO White Papers

The cloud 2015 vision

Cloud computing is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery - one that promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. The tools, building blocks, solutions, and best practices for cloud computing are evolving and challenges to deploying cloud solutions need to be considered.

The consumerisation of technology

iPads are the must-have fad. Android is the rising mobile platform -- Everywhere you turn, the news is about personal, smart, mobile devices and their impact on business and on IT.

Big data analytics

Broadly, there are two ways to think of Big Data technologies. The first is as an extension of what many organisations are already doing with business analytics. Gaining insight from business information is something that has been happening for decades, but the challenges and opportunities are now greater than ever before.

Virtualisation: benefits, challenges and solutions

The majority of organisations have already implemented server virtualisation and most intend to implement additional server virtualisation during the next year. The primary factors driving the movement to deploy server virtualisation are cost savings and the ability to dynamically provision and move VMs among physical servers. There are however, a number of significant challenges associated with server virtualisation.


CIO UK - Business - Technology - Leadership

On Demand Webcast
Analyse Data In Real Time


Increasingly businesses require the ability to analyse information quickly. Find out how to handle growing data volumes more efficiently while reducing the cost of managing your organisation's IT landscape

Watch now

SAP Logo

What do CFOs expect from IT?


Watch our sister publication's latest webcast.
Hear a case study from the Guardian News and Media's Technology Director, Andy Beale, and join the discussion on the role of the CFO in technology innovation.

Watch Discussion

CFO World webcast in assocation with Google

On Demand Webcast:
Maximising business flexibility with virtualisation


Register for this on demand webcast and find out how technologies can enable cost effective and secure virtualisation from your server deployments.



Watch now

Dell VMware logo


CFO Expectations of IT