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CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on providing global solutions

P&G’s UK CIO and shared services chief Dave Ubachs talks about the information difference a CIO can make

Ubachs and his CIO peers across the P&G empire got there through a corporate-wide understanding that CIOs needed to be central to the challenges the organisation faces more...


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CIO Profile: Tony Pusey of Trinity Mirror on the switch from paper to pixels

CIO Profile: Tony Pusey of Trinity Mirror on the switch from paper to pixels

For the newspaper business, it's a case of embrace tech or die

Few industries have been altered by technology quite as much as publishing, and media-savvy CIOs are leading the reinvention more...


Take part in the Aberdeen Group Business and IT Survey for a chance to win an iPad2

A chance to walk away with the leading tablet computer all for yourself

A chance to walk away with the leading tablet computer all for yourself more...


CIO Profile: Jos Creese, Hampshire’s local hero

CIO Profile: Jos Creese, Hampshire’s local hero

Cheerleader for excellence and leadership in local government IT

Through roles at Socitm and successes at Hampshire County Council, Jos Creese has become a cheerleader for excellence and leadership in local government IT more...


CIO Profile: Tesco's Mike McNamara on supplier relationships

CIO Profile: Tesco's Mike McNamara on supplier relationships

Microsoft deal supports expansion ambitions

Tesco’s new CIO is forward-looking and excited about the technology possibilities in the retail sector, both in the UK and in the company’s overseas markets more...


CIO Profile: Tesco's Mike McNamara on supporting a global business

CIO Profile: Tesco's Mike McNamara on supporting a global business

The UK's biggest grocer is also a global player, but that requires a conherent IT strategy

The grocer's IT boss explains how innovations in separate regions are now being adopted across the estate. more...


CIO Profile - Isle of Man Government CTO Peter Clarke

CIO Profile - Isle of Man Government CTO Peter Clarke

Isle seat gives a unique viewpoint

Isle of Man Government CTO Peter Clarke has built a secure and robust joined-up public service IT system that is the envy of local authorities across the water more...


Daily Mail CIO reveals consumerisation of IT experience

Daily Mail CIO reveals consumerisation of IT experience

The Monday morning iPad experience

A&N Media CIO David Henderson describes his experience of introducing and promoting the consumerisation of IT more...


Welsh rugby’s virtualised power play

Welsh rugby’s virtualised power play

Hyper-V setup adds to centre of IT excellence

Switching to a virtual infrastructure helped Craig Phillips of the Welsh Rugby Union keep data flowing freely more...


CIO Profile: C&W Worldwide's Richard Wilson on changing the corporate mindest

CIO Profile: C&W Worldwide's Richard Wilson on changing the corporate mindest

IT and outsourcing change management project leadership as the telco bounces back as a cloud provider

Richard Wilson of Cable&Wireless Worldwide has led building, desktop, IT and outsourcing change management projects as the telco bounces back as a leading cloud provider more...


Desktop & client news

Global semiconductor market to recover this year

The market is showing signs of recovery after a rough 2011

The market is showing signs of recovery after a rough 2011 more...


City University turns to VMware to virtualise apps

ThinApp virtual containers to deliver applications to students and staff

ThinApp virtual containers to deliver applications to students and staff more...


Vendors ship more smartphones than computers in 2011

Analysts claim mobile devices outpacing full PCs

Smartphone shipments overtook personal computers, including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops, for the first time in 2011, according to Canalys. more...


Isle of Man government to save £450,000 a year in private cloud

Savings could scale in UK, says CTO

Savings could scale in UK, says CTO more...


AMD changes chip design methodology

AMD hopes to blur the lines between CPUs and GPUs

Advanced Micro Devices is set to take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips. more...


AMD reports Q4 loss on weak graphics sales

AMD said sales of its graphics chips were hurt by the hard-drive shortage caused by flooding in Thailand

Advanced Micro Devices reported a fourth-quarter net loss Tuesday on weak sales of graphics chips and charges related to a restructuring. more...


Apple reports £8.3bn profit

iPhone sales up 128 per cent, iPad up 111 per cent over same quarter a year ago

iPhone sales up 128 per cent, iPad up 111 per cent over same quarter a year ago more...


DWP reappoints HP on desktop deal for £316m

Thin client PCs to be deployed

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has reappointed HP on a £316 million hardware framework deal, known as Desktop 21. more...


SSD maker Micron bags UK virtualisation vendor Virtensys

Micron says PCIe technology will allow SSD capacity sharing

Micron says PCIe technology will allow SSD capacity sharing more...


Apple desktops see jump in security threats in 2011

Mac malware becoming more prevalent

New Mac-based security threats jumped in 2011, but still remain far below that of Windows PCs, according to a report by F-Secure Labs. more...




CIO White Papers

The financial economics of cloud email

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Beyond Dropbox: Requirements for Enterprise Secure File Sharing

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Top 10 considerations for your IT operations management in the cloud

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How to get your business ready for the 2012 Olympics

IT Manager: "I'm working on contingency plans to ensure that we can keep the business running whatever happens during the Olympics. Hopefully, it'll just be a case of letting people work from home but we need to be ready for anything".


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