CIO UK Blogs: Entries for December 2009
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Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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December 22, 2009
Obama's Howard Schmidt appointment could be boon for global cybersecurity
US president's new security adviser is smart, cosmopolitan appointment
I was heartened to see news of the imminent appointment of Howard Schmidt as Barack Obama's chief information security adviser. Firstly, Schmidt...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 21, 2009
Revolution was in the air of ICT in 2009
ICT changed through the gears in the past year
Usually it's only with the benefit of hindsight that you can note seismic changes in the world, but in 2009 it was harder to escape than...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 18, 2009
Security guru Ed Gibson is leaving Microsoft
Former FBI agent Ed Gibson is leaving Microsoft
Microsoft's UK chief cyber-security adviser Ed Gibson is leaving the company, CIO can exclusively reveal. In recent years, Gibson has been the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 17, 2009
Woman Or Man: Who would you rather serve?
And why do IT workers say they prefer male bosses?
New research by career portal womenintechnology suggests most IT workers prefer a man to be their boss. Usually I despise poll stories because the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 16, 2009
The meetings are cancelled: I'm planning a New Year's revolution
Conferencing and collaboration tools are in, meetings and messages are out
This is the time of year for pruning, cutting back and leaving dead wood to perish in order to help the darling buds of next May prosper. We essay...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 14, 2009
Amazon's Vogels plots spot prices for cloud sessions
Amazon is touting variable prices for cloud computing tasks
Thanks to an inability to manage my work calendar I screwed up the chance to meet Werner Vogels on his recent visit to London. Shame on me: Vogels...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 11, 2009
BCS stalks IT professionalism with CITP refresh
New president Elizabeth Sparrow sees CITP refresh making group relevant to CIOs
Until this week I must admit it had been a while since I had thought much about the British Computer Society, or BCS, The Chartered Institute For...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 07, 2009
Tibco spins Twitter concept for business
Messaging network follows subjects, not people
Enterprise software firm Tibco is rolling out its take on micro-blogging to staff next week and will follow up next year with a commercial service...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 04, 2009
Top 10 Signs Your Office Party Is Borked
Oh no, they're forming a conga
It's that time of year again, isn't it? This cherry brandy is actually very nice ... well actually I quit smoking 15 years ago but one isn't going...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 02, 2009
Real men don't sit on private clouds
Private clouds seem a half-baked approach to next-gen IT
The more I think about it, the more the notion of 'private clouds' (dread phrase) makes me despair. At today's Business Cloud Summit (praised in...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
December 01, 2009
Tech conferences coming back sharper and fitter
ICT shows can still work so long as they go back to basics
The rock critic Jon Landau once wrote a rather ugly sentence that changed his life and that of his subject: "I saw rock 'n' roll future, and its...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
About the author
Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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