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When cloud computing is a step too far

Posted by Jonathan Bridges & Glenn Fitzgerald | Mon 26 Oct 2009

The public cloud will play a huge role in the future of IT, offering new levels of IT efficiency and lower unit costs for standard IT services. But one overriding consideration will cause many organisations to shy away from putting much of their core data in it: trust, or rather the lack of it ...Read more

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This Way Up: ABB's Haider Rashid

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 19 Oct 2009

As group CIO and head of real estate at power and automation engineering company ABB, Haider Rashid manages nearly $2 billion of costs and around 4,000 internal and outsourced employees. His management roles at some of the world's largest life science companies, where he led major consolidation and strategy projects, provided the grounding for a shift into one of the top jobs in global IT ...Read more

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Should CIOs blog publicly? Part 2

Posted by Andrew Keen | Mon 12 Oct 2009

A small but growing band of CIOs are maintaining public blogs. Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur and self-styled challenger to the "mad Utopians of Web 2.0", argues that they're wasting their time. ...Read more

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The US government's IT dashboard

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Oct 2009

Vivek Kundra, appointed by Barack Obama as the US government's first CIO, has launched an online dashboard that candidly exposes the current spending and schedule metrics of the 800 major projects that make up the bulk of the federal government’s $76 billion annual IT spend. ...Read more

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Should CIOs blog publicly?

Posted by John Suffolk | Mon 5 Oct 2009

A small but growing band of CIOs are maintaining public blogs. In part 1 of our debate, John Suffolk, the UK government's CIO, explains the value of putting his thoughts online. ...Read more

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CIOs who blog

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Oct 2009

Surprisingly few heads of IT see the value - or feel they have the latitude - to float their thoughts in the public blogosphere. Here's our list of 13 active CIO bloggers... ...Read more

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