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HPC Wales: Supercomputing in action

2 February 2012

Access to supercomputers is being opened up to a broader base of organizations through a series of high-performance computing initiatives backed by governments around the world. HPC Wales is one such example. ...more

HPC Wales: Supercomputing in action

M-commerce innovation at Tesco

26 January 2012

When online grocery store Tesco.com wanted to make shopping as painless as possible for its customers, a mobile-centric strategy was the solution. ...more

M-commerce innovation at Tesco

Procter & Gamble’s open innovation ecosystem

18 April 2011

P&G saw its fortunes turn after creating an open innovation ecosystem that is now the source of more than half of its new products. ...more

Procter & Gamble’s open innovation ecosystem

Delivering mobile services to customers

19 October 2010

How global shipping giant UPS responded to the need to create a full mobile experience for its customers ...more

Delivering mobile services to customers

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

Hyper-efficient IT

Daimler's Open Innovation Network

22 April 2010

Automotive giant Daimler has drawn inspiration from consumer Web 2.0 collaboration tools to create a new approach to innovation ...more

Daimler's Open Innovation Network

Banking on palm vein biometrics

30 March 2009

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi turned to cutting edge palm vein biometrics from Fujitsu to help secure customer transactions on a new combined credit and ATM bank card. ...more

Banking on palm vein biometrics

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

Bechtel’s silver cloud computing lining

Features

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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