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Supporting workforce mobility at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
17 October 2011
How the global law firm is embracing consumer IT to encourage more flexible working practices. ...more
Cloud’s early adopters: Eversheds
18 April 2011
The international law firm has deployed cloud services to manage sensitive legal documents cost-effectively. ...more
Cloud’s early adopters: US Department of Agriculture
18 April 2011
The US government department unified its fragmented email systems — used by 120,000 employees in 5,000 offices across 100 countries — with a move to cloud. The cost: just $8 per user. ...more
Cloud’s early adopters: US Army
18 April 2011
By innovating in personnel recruitment with cloud services support, the US Army showed a 33% productivity gain. ...more
Cloud’s early adopters: CERN
18 April 2011
How the European nuclear research center, CERN, embraced cloud to ease changes to IT service management in a dynamic environment where guests outnumber permanent staff by three to one. ...more
Converting data into business value at Volvo
24 January 2011
How access to vast, new data resources is driving manufacturing excellence, customer satisfaction and vehicle safety at Volvo Cars. ...more
Hyper-efficient IT
9 August 2010
The Innovation Value Institute has released Version 1.0 of its IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF), which provides a standardised roadmap for evaluating enterprise IT. Four brief Case Studies, from Intel, Cisco, Chevron and Merck, highlight how the IT-CMF has helped them to measure - and improve - the performance of their IT ...more
Carlsberg's CIO on applying lean IT
2 July 2009
Kenneth Egelund Schmidt, VP and CIO of Carlsberg, explains how lean thinking has, among other benefits, enabled his team to reduce a service desk cycle from several weeks to just one day ...more
Deutsche Bahn keeps IT on track
30 March 2009
IT is key to keeping the German rail company running and a data centre relocation and consolidation project has saved millions of Euros and cut new hardware costs by as much as 20 per cent. ...more
Virtualisation gives
Fulton County more bang for its buck
30 March 2009
To increase efficiency and save taxpayer cash, Fulton County’s CIO adopted a server consolidation strategy using virtualisation ...more
University virtualises to slash IT costs
30 March 2009
Japan's Toyo Gakuen University (TGU) cut hardware maintenance costs by 30 per cent by consolidating its servers and using virtualisation technology ...more
Bechtel’s silver cloud computing lining
30 March 2009
Managing the technology for a large multinational construction company is a huge challenge. John Bailey, CIO of the civil information systems and technology group of Bechtel, explains how cloud computing has helped his business. ...more
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Supercomputing: The next generation
Posted by Jim Mortleman & Kenny MacIver | 2 Feb 2012
A new class of high-performance computers is bringing solutions to many of the biggest challenges of business and society within reach. ...more
Supercomputing in the cloud
Posted by David Smith | 2 Feb 2012
The latent power of “big data” will push high-performance computing into the cloud, argues Fujitsu’s David Smith. ...more
Big picture thinking:
Joi Ito, director, MIT Media Lab
Posted by James Lawrence | 26 Jan 2012
Joi Ito, one of the world's leading authorities on business and technology, contemplates the impact of the Internet of Things, big data, open hardware — and the CIO’s changing world. ...more
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