CIO UK Blogs: Entries for May 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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May 27, 2010
BT? Dell? Brocade? Three firms that could do an Apple
With Apple passing Microsoft's market cap, who else could stage a revival
So Apple is (looks at watch) a bigger company than Microsoft in terms of that reliable, never-manipulated indicator of market capitalisation. It's...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 24, 2010
Chancellor's budget cuts likely to propel cloud computing
Huge cuts programme is likely to push cloud and other radical IT approaches
I'm unconvinced by George Osborne's promises today to cut spending without hurting public services but one small yet significant change that is...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 20, 2010
Cloud computing: Still pie in the sky to many
Despite the media frenzy, cloud computing is in its early infancy
Sometimes the disconnect between media hype and reality is almost palpable. For over a year now we've been using the term "cloud computing" to...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 18, 2010
Website takes aim at information risk
Portal to act as hub for risks related to data compromises
Given all the fuss about data theft, breaches, cracking, corporate governance and malfeasance, new rules and regs, financial reporting...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 14, 2010
SAP buys Sybase and primes pump for more tech M&A mayhem
SAP's purchase of Sybase more about middleware/analytics than database
So SAP is buying Sybase and the $5.8bn price tag will doubtless surprise those who placed the latter in the Whatever Happened To... camp. It's...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 12, 2010
Microsoft attempts to leave Google in its wake with multi-mode Office 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 touted as full-featured fat client, browser and phone suite
With 8.6 million pre-release versions already having been downloaded you couldn't quite call it a launch but Microsoft today had its...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 10, 2010
SenseCam wearable camera leads parade of Microsoft Research novelties
Highlights of last week's Microsoft Research Cambridge open day
Judging by volume of footfall and word of mouth, the virtual prize for most interesting project at Microsoft Research Cambridge's open day for...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 07, 2010
Microsoft Research Cambridge MD on R&D, open source, cloud and more
Andrew Herbert on the work of Microsoft's basic R&D site in Cambridge
At a Microsoft Research open day for press and selected others on Wednesday the only hard news of the day came early and from that great source of...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
May 04, 2010
Will your next IT be a hybrid?
Hybrid organisations and hybrid thinking inspire and inform new modes of working
'Hybrid'. It means composed of elements of different of incongruous kinds. In IT and more recently in cars it's often used in a positive sense,...
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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