CIO UK Blogs: Entries for March 2010
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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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March 31, 2010
Intel's Nehalem EX nails datacentre needs
Latest Xeon 7500 processors are an obvious drop-in and challenge to mid-range incumbents
IT budgets are tight but that shouldn't be too big an impediment to the success of Intel's long-trailed 'Nehalem EX' Xeon 7500 processor family....
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 26, 2010
If Technology Press Releases Told The Truth
What would happen if press releases relied on the plain, unvarnished facts?
My recent excellent article on the subject of If Technology Releases Covered Great Moments In History was rightly accorded iconic status by the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 24, 2010
Cisco's Phil Smith on telepresence, spread costs and direct dealing
Cisco UK CEO interview
With connectivity and collaboration at the heart of modern business computing there's an argument made by some that the biggest mover and shaker...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 23, 2010
Vox populi: Salesforce.com teams up with Torygraph for open election debate
Ideas website will provide basis for public view of political policies
Political parties in the UK have tended to have a relationship with technology in the same way that a fish has a relationship with a bicycle but...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 22, 2010
Palm: Rags To Riches... Then Back Again
Palm needs to build a better mousetrap to revive glory days
There is an interesting new piece about the current, unhappy state of Palm, written by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee who sold...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 16, 2010
Look, no sticker: AMD's Leslie Sobon on PC branding and Intel Inside
AMD sticker-free option will give branding back to PC makers
In Part One of CIO UK's interview with AMD VP of product and platform marketing, Leslie Sobon talked about her ambition to proliferate the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 16, 2010
AMD wants to put four-socket servers everywhere
AMD's Leslie Sobon is seeking to proliferate the 4P server sector
After a period when its Opteron processor gave Intel a rare bashing in the volume server sector, AMD has struggled of late to shrug off its...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 12, 2010
If Technology Press Releases Covered Great Moments In English History
How would tech marketers handle 1966 and all that?
I don't know about you -- indeed, how could I when we hardly ever meet? -- but I get lots and lots of press releases. In my main mailbox,...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 10, 2010
Google opens Apps Marketplace (and scares the bejeezus out of Microsoft)
Access to thousands of complementary services is another boost for Google's challenge to Microsoft
In the great tradition of no-brainers, Google today opened the virtual doors to its Apps Marketplace, inviting us all to download, try out and...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 09, 2010
Dyson's right: we need a bolder, ingenious Britain
Sir James Dyson's Ingenious Britain calls for help in rebuilding our reputation as great developers
Ruggedly handsome, hugely wealthy, highly personable and feted by all, there is a lot to dislike about Sir James Dyson* but it has to be said that...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 05, 2010
HP-EDS UK boss: Election will see IT spend hiatus, not drought
HP Enterprise Services MD Craig Wilson predicts IT spending pause but that's all
In the third and final part of our interview with HP Enterprise Services (the former EDS) UK MD and VP Craig Wilson, we talked about ICT services...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 04, 2010
HP-EDS UK boss: Civil servants are terrified by outsider views of IT projects
HP Enterprise Services UK MD Craig Wilson interview Part 2
In the second part of CIO UK's interview with HP Enterprise Services (the former EDS) MD and VP Craig Wilson we talked about the challenges to...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 04, 2010
HP-EDS UK boss on BSkyB, the merger and building an alternative to IBM
HP Enterprise Services boss on the 'new' EDS
In my experience at least, EDS always had a tendency to keep itself to itself. That's unsurprising as when it did appear in the press it was...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 01, 2010
'Twitter for business': Reed tests Salesforce.com's Chatter
Exhibitions giant pilots micro-blogging for information exchange
Being a simple bloke, I'm a big fan of Twitter as a simple way to air simple views. My only surprise is that the company is missing out on what...
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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