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The second age of e-discovery

Good governance – and the law – mandate that companies invest in e-discovery solutions for tracking down messages and files in the event of a probe
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FAST solutions to lost causes

Nick Patience examines how Microsoft’s acquisition of FAST could help CIOs get to grips with the useful storage of elusive information
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Crude certainties: the CIO's role in cutting pollution

There’s no escaping rising oil prices and the need to cut carbon emissions. It is the CIO who can provide major answers at most organisations, writes Kim Thomas
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Storage virtualisation

With good research and the right technology you can manage multiple appliances without the space headaches, reports Robert L Scheler
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Power play

Energy efficiency is not merely a green issue or something for your PR department. It is a business problem that is rapidly approaching crisis point
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Making the most of your assets

Proper management can help companies sweat their IT assets but it has to be a continuous process and not a one-off project
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Latest Concern Articles

People Leadership > Time to reappraise speech recognition systems?

Speak and spell

Business Alignment > Citrix plans next revolution

After reinventing Windows computing, the software pioneer wants to make a splash in virtualising desktops and servers, says CEO Mark Templeton

Infrastructure Refresh > Mike Altendorf: Search will outshine KM

Enterprise search will be a new software layer that lets firms exploit their digital assets. And Microsoft has its foot in the door, says Mike Altendorf

Security > CIO’s Steve Ballmer interview transcript

Microsoft CEO on cloud computing, SaaS, Google, chimpanzees, Zune, Seinfeld (and reprising the ‘developers’ rant)

Resource Management > PGA Tour IT chief Steve Evans uses BI to satisfy fans and players

Putting IT straight

Managing Budgets > Preparing for the latest flexible working legislation

Flexing the workforce

Compliance > Team GB and Accenture use profiling tools to win Gold

Business insight for sail in Beijing

Managing Change > Forbes CIO puts project management in the cloud

Mykolas Rambus advocates Project Portfolio Management as clear view of the department

Managing Customers > Working with and communicating to the board of directors

CIOs discuss their tactical play in the boardroom

Board Politics > Richard Sykes: It’s the humans, stupid!

Technology doesn’t just develop itself, and talent management skills are vital when it comes to innovative projects

Latest News

Globalisation boss takes on CIO role at EMC

Storage vendor appoints from within

NGD builds UK's first data fortress

An ambitious project is under way in Wales to build one of the most advanced and secure data centres in Europe.

Forrester: Poor database archiving is compliance risk

Businesses could fall foul of regulation because of their failure to optimise database archiving and make information readily accessible, Forrester has warned.

Forrester: Enterprises need better desktop search

The large amount of data being stored on personal computers and hard drives has caused many business users to download consumer search tools, such as Google Desktop, to find the documents they need.

NHS Trust loses 38,000 patient records on tape

Personal health records of more than 38,000 patients have gone missing after a computer back-up tape was lost while being sent by courier to a software company, an NHS trust has confirmed.

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Articles In Other Technology Areas

Mobile IT > Netbooks set to challenge laptops

From smartphones to Ultra-Mobile PCs and Netbooks, compact devices are emerging as a more shoulder-friendly alternative to traditional portable gear

Business Applications > Microsoft's CIO on innovation, freedom and open source

How Microsoft keeps a balance between innovation and business driven priorities.

Infrastructure > Richard Sykes on the lessons of Moore’s Law

Gordon Moore’s dictum on unrelenting technological progress causes Richard Sykes to recall leadership styles in his ICI days

Communications > Avoiding the tender traps

With many IT outsourcing contracts up for re-tender, it pays to look back for lessons and begin the process as early as possible

Internet/eCommerce > Universal Orlando Resort CIO on understands the Universal customer

Michelle McKenna, CIO of theme park operator Universal Orlando Resort, challenges market assumptions of how to drive business in a shrinking economy

SOA > Asos.com IT Director keeps a sharp eye on future trends

Gary Mudie, IT director at leading online fashion retailer Asos.com, has to keep a sharp eye on future trends both in IT and on the catwalk

Databases > British Library's Richard Boulderstone sets out digital agenda for national libraries

The British Library’s director of e-strategy Richard Boulderstone is at the heart of a huge digitisation project that will make the organisation’s 150 million-document archive more accessible now and in the future

Security > Andy Hayler: Bigger is not always better

The basics of software development best practice are being lost because we over-value youth and energy

Outsourcing > Frank Modruson, Accenture CIO is not just putting out fires

Accenture CIO Frank Modruson is surrounded by IT experts, but the part-time firefighter still finds time to think about new approaches to collaboration