Supplier management

ODCA is a customer-led group that shares tips about building clouds and aims to influence how vendors build products

The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added Big Data to the list of IT topics it covers. read more

Public Accounts Committee grilled executives on the failed project

The NHS is still set to spend nearly £600 million on Lorenzo patient record systems provided by CSC, despite the failure of the government’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT). read more

Cabinet Office is hoping the department can engage with SMEs on the deal

The Ministry of Justice has halted its £300 million End User Computing (EUC) "tower" procurement process, with the aim of getting a better deal and potentially involving smaller companies in line with government policy. read more

Service-level agreement comes with 99.95% availability promise

After three and a half years in operation, Amazon Web Services' RDS is finally generally available, and users can also get a service-level agreement if they choose to run the database in multiple places. read more

Akin Gump CIO Scott Bravi says it's important to provide secure devices that are powerful tools when working remotely

Law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has rolled out 500 BlackBerry 10 devices to its international workforce, along with Enterprise Service 10 mobile management software. read more

How Intel's 4th generation Core CPU impacts business buyers

Haswell - Intel's fourth generation of the incredibly successful Core CPU - is here. As vendors begin rolling out hardware to keep up with one another in the renewed specs and performance race, that age-old game that inevitably follows is about to start again. Will users buy equipment featuring the new CPUs? Will deals on third-generation Core equipment be enticing? And what's really in it for business users, anyway? read more

It's surely no coincidence that so many CIO 100 attendees highlighted a constructive, mutually-supportive relationship with their organisation's leadership teams

The 2013 CIO 100 champagne reception was an entertaining evening of thoughtful conversation, insight and humour. One recurrent soundbite was that 'CEOs get the CIOs they deserve', reflecting how top calibre CIOs have both backing and buy-in at the highest levels to deliver their true value. Many CxOs spoke positively about their leadership teams, welcoming the support and space they had to deliver the leadership, innovation, challenge and transformation the role demands. read more

Jill Harrison has worked for SAP, Siebel Systems and Infosys in a 28-year business software career

Third-party SAP and Oracle software maintenance provider Rimini Street has hired an industry veteran Jill Harrison as European managing director to aid its expansion in the region. read more

Centre is part of Microsoft's effort to expand its enterprise services in China

Microsoft is expanding its enterprise services in China with a new Global Service Delivery Center in the country, the second of its kind in the world, the company said Wednesday. read more

Contract law does not assume an obligation of good faith. How can all parties ensure fair play?

Britain likes to think of itself as a nation of justice and fair play. Surely, you might think, the concept of 'good faith' must be one of those fundamental principles of fairness, like the laws of cricket or the Queensberry Rules, that we exported to the world? read more