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podcasts @ComputerWeeklyPodcast interview with Adriana Karaboutis, CIO, Dell on women in ITIn this interview Dell CIO, Adriana Karaboutis discusses the challenges of making IT a viable career for young women and the need for greater sponsorship and mentoring programmes.
2012-06-2004 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyPodcast interview with Adriana Karaboutis, CIO, Dell on internshipsIn this interview Dell CIO, Adriana Karaboutis, explains how summer interns are helping her managers understand what young people really want from IT and social media.
2012-06-2004 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyPodcast interview with Adriana Karaboutis, CIO, Dell on adapting IT to the businessDell has a world-class supply chain system, but as the company has moved from products to a services and solutions organisation, the IT was not able to cope. In this interview Dell CIO, Adriana Karaboutis, explains how IT at Dell has adapted.
2012-06-2005 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyUsing Big data alongside OLTP and data warehouses for real time fleet managementUS Xpress has implemented a single data analytics user interface that pools in information from multiple sources. The logists firm collects 900 data elements from tens of thousands of trucking systems— sensor data for tyre and petrol usage, engine operation, geospatial data for fleet tracking, as well as driver feedback from social media sites.
All of this data is stream both in real time and collected for historical analysis. Information fed to appropriate online transaction processing systems, Hadoop and data warehouses,
In this podcast, Tim Leonard, CTO and vice president at US Xpress, explains how the company processes and analyses Big Da...
2012-03-1507 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview: Oke Okaro, global head of mobile at BloombergIn this podcast, Oke Okari, general manager and head of mobile at Bloomberg, speaks to Cliff Saran from Computer weekly about the challenges of mobile web and apps development. The Bloomberg news service runs on a diverse range of tablet and smartphone devices. All all its apps and mobile websites are developed in-house.
2012-03-0213 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview with Valdis Filks, research director at GartnerIn this podcast, Valdis Filks, research director at Gartner speaks to Computer Weekly and sister title SearchStorage.techtarget.co.uk about how storage is changing as a result of the take-up of virtualisation, and the impact on IT budgets.
2012-02-2104 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview with Stephen Glen, WorkITIn this podcast, Stephen Glen, software architecture engineer at WorkIT, talks to Cliff Saran, about hosting, cloud computing and how the company is using services from BSO Network Solutions for its price comparison products.
2012-02-2005 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyAleks Krotoski on Facebook's influenceIn this podcast recorded at the Business Cloud Summit 2011, US-born academic, and presenter of BBC2's Virtual World, Aleks Krotoski discusses how sites like Facebook and Google build an empirical model of human beings, which influences how people and society interact with their services.
2011-12-2206 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyBAe Systems: Office365 misfiresDefence contractor BAe Systems ditched plans to adopt Microsoft Office365, the online version of the Microsoft Suite. Speaking at the Business Cloud Summit 2011, Charles Newhouse, head of strategy and design at BAe Systems said, "We were going to adopt Office365 and the lawyers said we could not do it."
2011-12-0601 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyPaul Higgins, Emea data centre leader at GE at the Gartner Data Centre & Operations Summit 2011In this podcast recorded at the Gartner Data Centre & Operations Summit 2011, Paul Higgins, Emea data centre leader at GE talks about how the company's data centres have become so strategic, the CEO and shareholders take an interest in them.
2011-11-2901 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyMike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy on the next information revolutionMike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy says it is no longer feasible to move information into a database: "You need to translate information in real time." Speaking at a packed session titled "The biggest transition in the history of IT" at the Gartner ITxpo in Barcelona, Lynch, said, "Rich media will become commonplace. It is not only about text. Communication by video is just as important as communicating by text."
2011-11-1009 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyPeter Ayliffe, CEO of Visa Europe on why IT mattersIn this interview from the Gartner ITxpo 2011 in Barcelona, Peter Ayliffe, president and CEO of Visa Europe, discusses why he trusts his CIO, Steve Chambers.
2011-11-0903 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview: Gerry Pennell, CIO OlympicsAt the Gartner ITxpo 2011 in Barcelona, Gerry Pennell, CIO of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games answers a question from Gartner's Dave Aron about the similarities between outsourcing and the IT team for the Olympics.
2011-11-0808 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyPaul Maritz keynote: CEO of VMware pushes cloud computing era at VMworld CopenhagenIn his keynote presentation, Paul Maritz, chief executive office at VMware, said, “One of the ways to categorise computing is the type of application. In the cloud, we are seeing the emergence of a new type of applications, which cannot cannot be done on a traditional RDBMS.” Maritiz describes this new type of application architecture as a computing fabric, built on top of a virtual server environment.
2011-10-2006 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyArtCoviello2011Art Coviello, executive chairman at RSA, explains the reason for moving Tom Heiser into his former role of president and details what his new role will be within EMC and its RSA security division.
2011-03-0201 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyDell adds X Factor to jazz up corporate laptopsIn this podcast, Kirk Schell, executive director for Dell's business PC range, speaks to Cliff Saran from ComputerWeekly.com about the changing personality of the business PC and laptop.
2011-02-0705 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyWhy IT must understand FacebookMore marketing is being done digitally. It is very hard to measure its output and success. "You need tools to take the data and bring it into one place, to satisfy marketing and finance departments," says Brian Franz, CIO, Diageo. In this podcast he speaks about how IT captured the data from 200 million Facebook interactions, which occured during the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange online event.
2011-02-0103 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyUnderstanding supply demand forecasting"The barrier is having a process of who you talk to and what is the service level agrements between the sales organisation and supply organisation. It won't work unless you have the right tools," says Brian Franz, CIO, Diageo speaking at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011.
2011-02-0105 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyRunning IT efficiently at DiageoIn this podcast, Brian Franz, CIO at Diageo, explains how he achieves a variable cost structure for IT, using outsourcing and running global business processes.
2011-02-0103 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyHow IT helps Diageo make its customers happyIn this podcast, from the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011, Brian Franz, CIO at Diageo speaks about the company's global IT operating model and how it relates to Diageo customers. "We want to make them happy, repeat customers and feel good about our proiducts and brands relating to tehir lifestyle."
2011-02-0106 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyTop tips on being a great CIO from Brian Franz, CIO DiageoBrian Franz, CIO at global drinks firm, Diageo, presents his top tips on how to become a successful CIO. Franz was speaking at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011, in London.
2011-01-3102 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyEleanor Bradley, Nominet director of operations, on web site take downsPrompted by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Nominet, the .uk domain registry, is planning changes to its terms and conditions that will allow it to take down websites without a court order.
2010-12-1004 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyNext Generation HP ProLiant Servers with AMD Opteron 6100 Series Processors – A powerful platform for Virtualisation
2010-11-3007 min2010-11-3006 min2010-11-3007 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyBrad ArkinComputer Weekly's Warwick Ashford speaks to Brad Arkin, senior director of product security and privacy at Adobe about security in the next generation of Adobe software.
Arkin details the changes that have been made to products like Adobe Acrobat and Reader to make them more resilient to hacker attacks.
2010-11-1904 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyVint Cerf interview: Net in crisisThe internet faces three major crises, which if not solved, will lead to the net stalling as a communications medium and an engine for economic growth, says internet founder and Google’s internet evangelist Vint Cerf.
2010-11-1709 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyWhy me must all Hack Work - a podcast with Bill Jensen and Josh KleinIn this podcast, ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran chats to Bill Jensen and Josh Klein about "Hacking Work - breaking stupid rules for smart results." Bill and Josh discuss how the old ways of doing IT no longer match what staff in the knowledge economy need.
2010-11-1559 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyVint Cerf at 6UKInternet founder Vint Cerf chats to Computer Weekly's Ian Grant about threats to the internet, cyber warfare and other topical issues. (15.32m)
2010-11-1215 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyGartner Symposium: Michael Dell interviewIn this podcast recorded at the Gartner Symposium in Cannes, analysts from Gartner quiz Dell chief executive officer, Michael Dell, about the issues facing the PC industry, the challenge from Apple and why he thinks Android is the future.
2010-11-1008 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyGartner Symposium podcast: How Darko Hrelic, CIO manages the Gartner CIOsDarko Hrelic either has the best or worst CIO job in the world. On the one hand, he has the expertise of Gartner on tap, to help develop his IT strategy, but he's also dealing with people who often know a heck of a lot about running IT departments. In this interview ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran finds out how he copes with the IT experts.
2010-11-1011 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyMacro Wikinomics: an interview with Don TapscottIn this podcast Don Tapscott, co-author of Macro Wikinomics speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how business and governments must reinvent themselves to survive the recession. Tapscott believes the internet can power a new way of thinking and learning, supporting collective intelligence, citizen regulators and the ability for governments to provide new services, without requiring extra funding.
2010-10-2613 min2010-10-1948 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyMichael ChertoffMichael Chertoff, former US Secretary of Homeland Security, explains how nation states could go about setting and agreeing international conventions on cybersecurity.
2010-10-1502 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyArtCoviello2010RSA president Art Coviello explains how organisations could and should influence regulators to shape better, less onerous regulations.
2010-10-1302 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklySteve Ballmer at the LSE 4-10-10Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discuses Microsoft’s position in the cloud marketplace relative to its competitors.
2010-10-0501 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyEmpowered: an interview with Josh BernoffIn this podcast interview, Josh Bernoff, co-author of Empowered, speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how IT people must support workers who use Twitter, Facebook and other non-corporate sites to help them do their jobs
2010-10-0409 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklySpeech by Bill Murphy, chief executive officer at BT Openreach at the Cumbrian broadband conferenceBT is going all-out to win the chance to provide Cumbria with high speed broadband, the CEO of Openreach, its regulated infrastructure division, told the Cumbrian broadband conference at the weekend.
Here is Murphy’s speech in full. (17.48 minutes)
2010-09-2017 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInternet Explorer 9.0 - how Microsoft plans to make the websafeIn this podcast Mark Quirk, Microsoft Internet Exporer 9.0 product manager speaks to Cliff Saran about how Microsoft is increasing "trust" within IE 9.
2010-09-1602 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInternet Explorer 9.0 - Drivers for interoperabilityIn this podcast, Mark Quirk, Internet Explorer 9.0 product manager, speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how Microsoft is working towards browser interoperability.
2010-09-1602 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInternet Explorer 9.0 beta - makign browsing fasterIn this interview Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 product manager, Mark Quirk speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how the new browser speeds up graphics rendering, by using DirectX and hardware acceleration on PC's graphics processors.
2010-09-1604 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyNational Programme for IT: what really has changed?In this podcast, Christine Connelly, chief information officer for Health, responds to questions about what has actually changed, the future of Connecting for Health and value for money on the £5 billion spent so far.
2010-09-1008 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyNational Programme for IT: how the money will be spentIn this podcast, Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health explains how much freedom Trusts will have to buy what they want, in terms of IT, and the future of the Summary Care Records system.
2010-09-1005 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyNational Programme for IT: financial liabilityChristine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health is quizzed on what the NHS will have to pay BT and CSC.
2010-09-1004 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyNational Programme for IT: what happens to IT suppliers?Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health answers how the revised IT plan for the NHS will affect existing IT suppliers.
2010-09-1002 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyPodcast: Department for health CIO, Christine Connelly on National Programme's demiseIn this podcast Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health explains why the management and organisation of the NHS National Programme for IT is being revamped.
2010-09-1003 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyOrange introduces hi def audioOrange has launched what it claims is the biggest advance in voice calls in 20 years. The so-called HD voice, uses noise cancellation technology in an attempt to improve the clarity of a mobile phone conversation, by filtering out background noise.
2010-09-0102 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyGoogle Priority Inbox now liveGoogle has developed an alternative inbox view, called Priority Inbox for Gmail, which separates important messages by using data such as which people users email the most and which messages they actually open and reply to.
The system “learns” users’ priorities over time by analysing how they respond to messages from particular senders. Computer Weekly's Cliff Saran speaks to Matt Glotzbach, product management director, Google Enterprise, about how it works.
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podcasts @ComputerWeeklyHow Telepresence helps the AT&T William Formula One team to keep ahead on the trackFor the past six years Chris Taylor has been IT manager for the AT&T Williams Formula One team.
The Formula One environment is extremely hectic, but telepresence, provided by AT&T, is becoming an increasingly important communications and collaboration tool for the team.
ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran speaks to Taylor about how telepresence allows the team to keep travel costs down, while keeping its UK engineers up-to-date with the race car's track performance and safety issues.
2010-06-2809 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview with Werner Vogels part IIIMobile app development is the focus of the final part of Cliff Saran’s interview with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. Vogels says that on iPhone and Android devices, the apps are pretty innovative, yet they are being produced at break-neck speed. Developers are not building services themselves. They consume external services. Small lightweight apps running on your devices connect to cloud-based services, pulling together location awareness and context-based information. This approach to use cloud-based web services will become the building blocks of future enterprise applications.
2010-06-2109 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview with Werner Vogels - Part IIThis is the second part of Cliff Saran’s podcast interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels during his recent trip to London. Here Vogels discusses how cloud is a perfect storm, continuing the concept of service-based architectures, which started with service oriented architecture. Traditional software licensing is also changing thanks to the drive towards cloud computing.
2010-06-2108 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview with Werner Vogels part ICliff Saran met up with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon to find out about where cloud computing is heading. In the first of a three part podcast interview, Cliff catches up with Vogels during his recent trip to London, to ask him where the cloud is heading, how companies are using cloud computing to reduce their carbon footprint and even moving low-end mainframe apps in to the cloud, saving millions in maintenance.
2010-06-2109 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview, John Shewchuk, Microsoft technical fellowMicrosoft sees cloud computing as a way of enabling businesses to tap into the resources of the software company’s infrastructure which offers scalability and high availability on a global basis.
But many organisations are still sceptical about the security of the cloud computing model.
In this podcast interview, John Shewchuk, technical fellow at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about how cloud can enable better security and regulatory compliance.
2010-06-0408 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview: Microsoft's John ScarrowMicrosoft is working hard to improve the reputation of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and is set to raise the security bar even higher in version 9 currently under development.
In this podcast interview, John Scarrow, general manager of Safety Services at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about the latest and coming security enhancements to IE and Windows Live Hotmail.
2010-06-0310 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview, Steve Lipner, MicrosoftMicrosoft is among the emerging suppliers of cloud computing services that are seeking to win the confidence of enterprises.
In this podcast interview, Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about what it is doing to allay business concerns.
Lipner describes how Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Global Foundation Services, certifications and transparency combine to provide the necessary assurances.
He also lists the things that organisations looking to benefit from cloud computing should look at to ensure their data is adequately protected.
2010-06-0206 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview with Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft
2010-06-0206 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview: A better approach to IT business alignment?In this podcast interview Alex Cullen, a research director at Forrester Research, speak to Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran about how IT and the business can collaborate better if they both work on the basis of a Business Capability Map.
The theme of this year’s Forrester Forum (June 9-11, Lisbon) concerns making business technology real. Since IT is so intertwined with business, business and IT people need to consider both the business and technology implications of any business activity. It's a perennial problem, but Cullen believes there is a better way...
2010-06-0111 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyPart 2 of interview with Frank Gillett, principal analyst at Forrester ResearchThis is the second part of the Computer Weekly interview with Frank Gillett, principal analyst at Forrester Research. In the last episode, Frank looked at the cloud infrastructure market. In this interview, Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran talks to Franks about the development of the personal cloud, a concept which could make operating systems irrelevant.
2010-05-1756 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview with Frank Gillett, principal analyst an Forrester ResearchIn the first of a two-part podcast interview, Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran talks to Frank Gillett, principal analyst at Forrester Research about his research on the cloud infrastructure market. Frank discusses the maturity of products like Google Application Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com's Force.com platform. He also covers the distinction between hosted services, outsourced services and cloud-based services.
2010-05-1709 min2010-05-1207 min2010-05-0703 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyLoveBugPaul Fletcher, member of the first team to intercept the LoveBug worm on 4 May 2000 describes how events unfolded on that day and why it landmark event.
2010-05-0403 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyart coviello interviewThe Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) published a http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats.html report detailing the http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/02/240471/rsa-2010-cloud-security-alliance-lists-top-cloud-threats.htm top security risks of cloud computing at the start of RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco.Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to Art Coviello, president of RSA, the security division of EMC, about the significance of the CSA’s report for businesses and security professionals.According to Coviello, all stakeholders have an inter-related role to play in ensuring an effective response to the security challenges outlined in the CSA report.
2010-03-0403 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyUnsung Hereos: The story of Bill TutteComputer Weekly went to Station X, Britain’s top secret World War 2 code breaking headquarters, to discover the story behind Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer.
Senior reporter Ian Grant spoke to cryptographer Captain Jerry Roberts about the origins of Colossus.
Roberts worked in the Testery, the part of Station X devoted to cracking Tunny, the code used by Hitler and his top generals. His colleagues included Alan Turing and Bill Tutte, the man responsible for working out how the Germans encrypted their messages.
As Roberts makes clear, without Tutte, Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers could never have inve...
2010-01-2914 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview: Don Tapscott beyond wikinomicsWikinomics became the number one management book of 2007. Don Tapscott’s latest book, Grown-up Digital”, is now available. In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to him about the internet generation.
In Grown-up Digital, Tapscott argues that today’s youngsters have grown-up with the internet and are better suited to working in the digital age than previous generations. But business and governments are lagging behind. “We need to rebuild all our institutions. The corporation is broken. The financial system is broken. We need to change the basic modus operandi of government. Industrial age bureaucracies have been around a hundred years, and were a g...
2009-12-0711 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyNick Leeson: Integrated IT could have prevented Barings Bank collapseIntegrated IT systems could have prevented the collapse of Barings Bank, says Nick Leeson, the trader who hid £826m in losses that led to the bank’s demise in 1995.
Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Leeson at a media briefing during RSA Conference 2009 why most financial organisations still lack such systems.
Leeson describes the IT systems at Barings as “mishmash” as he answers this and other IT-related questions about how he was able to hide his losses for so long.
2009-10-2707 min2009-10-2104 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyApollo 11 - Full InterviewPat Norris was among the programmers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission that sent Neil Amstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the Moon.
2009-07-1709 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyPodcast: Microsoft claims increase in product security in Trustworthy Computing updateMicrosoft issues security updates for its products every month, despite the introduction of its Trustworthy Computing initiative to raise security standards in its software. These continual updates, coupled with several unscheduled, emergency updates have led some end users to believe Trustworthy Computing (TwC) is failing. ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Microsoft’s George Stathakopoulos, general manager for Trustworthy Computing security, for an update on a visit to the software company’s headquarters in Redmond.
2009-03-0612 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyGSM Mobile World Congress: the mHealth for Development programmeIn this interview, Claire Thwaites, head of Vodafone Foundation and United Nations Foundation Partnership speaks to Cliff Saran about how mobile phones can be used to support mobile health programmes in developing nations. Mobile phones are being used in applications like SMS text alerts to enable patients to adhere to their prescriptions, education programmes to improve health awareness, data collection and training of health care workers.
2009-02-1705 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyExclusive podcast interview: Gary McKinnon's mum on why she believes her son should be tried in the UKJanis Sharp, mother of self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon, speaks frankly, movingly and exclusively to Computer Weekly’s Ian Grant about the struggle to stop his extradition to the US for committing what the Americans claim was the 'greatest military hack of all time'. She explains why she believes her son should be tried in the UK, what effect the events of the past seven years have had on the family, and how his case is attracting growing political support.
2009-01-1605 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyHow to change the business via the IT service deskThe IT service desk is in a great position to identify problem areas relating to IT before other parts of the business are impacted. ASs such, it needs the internal clout to feed back its conclusions to the rest of the business. If this is done right then a change in IT support strategy can help business save costs, and help IT match more closely to what the business needs.
2009-01-0907 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyBPM and SOA for business agilityTranslating business needs into software outcomes has long been an Achilles heel for the IT industry. Whether the approach has been to write bespoke applications or find a best-fit package, the result is normally an imperfect reflection of what was required. More seriously, the resulting systems are a static reflection of the needs of a particular moment in time. The weakness of this approach comes when a business needs to radically alter the way it operates, whether in response to changing market conditions or simply a desire to reinvent itself. When the systems that supposedly support the business can't be...
2009-01-0803 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyHow to use Web 2.0 at workWeb 2.0 may have emerged from a slow-gathering wave of hype, but it describes a range of business models, ideas, methodologies and computing platforms that represent a sea change in the business world - partly driven by the ways consumers like to communicate and consume.
The Web 2.0 economy is no longer about where information or service originates (i.e. who it belongs to) but how easily it can be consumed, personalised and shared by a target community, outside of the strictures of format, date, ownership and hierarchy. Every stream of information means defining a community, and then satisfying its demands with...
2008-12-1803 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyWhat CIOs need to know now about generation Y and emerging technologiesKelly Dempski, technology research director at Accenture's European technology lab in France tells Warwick Ashford what CIOs need to know about Generation Y - the 'Millennials', web 2.0, social networking, and emerging technologies.
2008-11-2606 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyInside the mind of the cybercriminal: Ian Amit shares insights from his researchSecurity researcher Ian Amit was given a keen insight into the working of the cybercriminal world when he found a way into a database of stolen access credentials. Amit, who is the director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems has since drawn up a report on his research. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to him on his recent visit to London and asked him to highlight some of the findings in the report.
2008-11-2105 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyFree MS software for start-upsMicrosoft is giving away free development tools and server software to start-ups less than three years old. Cliff Saran find out more about the initiative, called BizSpark, from Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president responsible for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft
2008-11-1903 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyGet Safe Online: MP Alun Michael on how government and business can fight e-crimeComputer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked MP and EURIM e-Crime Group Alun Michael how Get Safe Online fits in with other e-crime initiatives and what role business has to play. Get Safe Online is a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, currently running its fourth annual Get Safe Online Awareness Week.
2008-11-1806 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyGet Safe Online: MD Tony Neate on why the initiative matters to businessGet Safe Online, a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, has launched the fourth annual Get Safe Online Week. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Get Safe Oline’s MD Tony Neate to outline the importance of the initiative for small and medium businesses in the UK and detail the role of businesses with Get Safe Online.
2008-11-1704 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyOptimising data centre operations (Next-generation enterprise IT)Brian McKenna, Editor of Computer Weekly magazine, introduces the first article in a “Next-generation enterprise IT” series, sponsored by IBM.
In the article “Optimising data centre operations”, Danny Bradbury looks at how data centre managers can optimise operations for maximum efficiency in the context of the downturn.
2008-11-1703 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyRSA Europe 2008: Interview with Art Coviello of RSA on current issues in IT securityComputerWeekly.com's Warwick Ashford speaks to Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and president of EMC’s security division, RSA, at the RSA Europe 2008 conference in London. Topics covered in the interview include: the effects of economic uncertainty on IT security spending; what strategies businesses should adopt in order to maintain high information security despite the tough economic climate; whether EMC and RSA are planning any cost-cutting measures; and how Coviello views the responsibility of IT security suppliers in the war against data loss and cybercrime.
2008-10-3006 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyMcKinnon, IT outsourcing, and flexible IT procurement: IT news for the w/e 17 October 2008McKinnon's extradition now unavoidable; the inside track on Specsavers deal for flexible IT procurement with Fujitsu Siemens; the outsourcing dilemma facing today's CIOs - outsourcing to cut costs, or to improve business innovation. All this and more in this week's IT news round-up from ComputerWeekly.com.
2008-10-1708 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyIT in the credit crunch: UK IT news round-up for w/e 10 OctoberIT in the credit crunch, and the future of high-speed broadband in the UK, in the latest UK IT news round-up from ComputerWeekly.com, for the week ending 10 October.
2008-10-1309 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyLabour's record on IT projects and other IT news for w/e 26 SeptemberTony Collins discusses Labour's poor record on government IT projects and, separately, the current landmark BSkyB / EDS legal dispute with Warwick Ashford of ComputerWeekly.com in this week's IT news round-up for the week ending 26 September.
2008-09-2909 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyIT security in a rapidly changing business technology environment - with Richard Jacobs of SophosSophos CTO Richard Jacobs talks to ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford about tackling the problem of managing IT security in a rapidly changing business technology environment. In this podcast Jacobs discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches that businesses are adopting.
2008-09-0907 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyGoogle Chrome, rural broadband, the latest banking merger and the IT news for w/e 5 September from ComputerWeekly.comWeekly round-up of IT news from ComputerWeekly.com. This week's highlight include Google Chrome - of course - plus rural broadband access, enterprise resource planning at Irwin's Bakery, and the IT impact of Commerzbank's plans to purchase Dresdner Bank, making savings through headcount reductions post-sale.
2008-09-0506 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyIT at the Beijing Olympics: Jeremy Hore of Atos Origin on the tech behind the OlympicsComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford talks to Jeremy Hore, Atos Origin’s chief integrator for the Beijing Olympics IT programme, to find out how things went. Hore led Atos Origin's 400-strong team working on IT systems for the Beijing Olympics. The Atos Origin team was responsible for project management, architectural design, IT security, IT operations, and key software systems.
2008-09-0109 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyMy eBay PC purchase included the bank details of 1m+ people: Computer Weekly interviewThe response of the Financial Services Authority and the Information Commissioner’s Office has been disappointing, says the man who discovered the personal bank details of more than one million people on a computer bought on eBay last week. Andrew Chapman, an IT manager at the University of Oxford, found the details when exploring a second-hand computer he had bought to store music files. ComputerWeekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to Chapman to get his perspective on the discovery.
2008-08-2712 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyMergers and acquisitions make life interesting for top CIOs: Weekly IT news round-up from Computer Weekly for 22 AugustWarwick Ashford rounds up the UK IT industry news highlights for ComputerWeekly.com, including a report from Ian Grant on how a recent spate of company mergers has made life “interesting” for the CIOs at British Airways and Iberia, the Co-op and Somerfield, and EDF and British Energy.
2008-08-2205 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyIT news round-up 11 April: New York Stock Exchange and Terminal 5Weekly IT news round-up from Warwick Ashford at ComputerWeekly.com. This week: The New York Stock Exchange implementing off the shelf technology to cut time taken to access business critical data; and MPs aks questions about what really went wrong at Heathrow’s Terminal 5: people, processes, or IT?
2008-04-1106 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyInterview: Emergency telecoms - Oisin Walton from Telecoms Sans FrontièresOisin Walton of Telecoms Sans Frontières talks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about establishing emergency telecommunations in disaster relief situations, including the technical solutions available, and how volunteers are trained for field work in an emergency situation.
2008-04-1107 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyIT news round-up 7 April – Anti-fraud measures for debit cards and the Phorm privacy debateRound-up of UK IT industry news including last week’s top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com and a look at the main stories in this week’s issue.
This week’s highlighted stories include: The Royal Bank of Scotland’s plans to roll out a debit card payment system with sophisticated anti-fraud technology; the BT trial of Phorm’s advertising services and the debate over privacy concerns; and the Fujitsu-NHS “contract reset” issue.
2008-04-0708 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyComputer Weekly UK IT news round-up for 28 March 2008: Speedy Hire saves by rationalising software licensingOur weekly round-up of UK IT industry news including the top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com last week, and a look ahead to the focus of next week's issue. This week's stories include how tool hire firm Speedy Hire expects to save £2m over the next six years after rationalising the way it licenses Microsoft software.
2008-03-3104 min
podcasts @ComputerWeeklyUK Atomic Energy Authority switches to Active Directory (exclusive interview)The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (AEA), has pioneered the development of civil nuclear energy in the United Kingdom.
Harwell was the site of the UK’s first nuclear reactor. Harwell was also a centre of early fusion research in the 1950s. Britain’s original large-scale experimental device, ZETA, was housed in one of the RAF hangars at this site.
ComputerWeekly.com has been given exclusive access. In this podcast Cliff Saran speak to Chris Broad, Head of Information Systems and Technology at the Atomic Energy Authority to talk about his decision to migrate from a Novell desktop infrastructure to Wind...
2008-01-3010 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyComputer Weekly IT news round-up: 2008-01-29Reporter Warwick Ashford presents the first of Computer Weekly's UK IT news round-up podcasts, for the week ending 29 January, 2008. This week's stories include a report that Fujitsu may withdraw from the NHS NPfIT (National Programme for IT), and news that Accenture and BAE Systems have withdrawn from the bidding process for the UK's national ID card scheme.
2008-01-2904 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyWhat's the buzz with SOA, Pt II? An interview with Andy MulhollandService oriented architecture, SOA , complements the next version of the web, web 2.0, by allowing people to create applications and applets that can easily be reused. It is easy to see how Google Maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps) can be used to create completely new applications using the idea of a mash-up to embed the Google code.
Now imagine the possibility of using a service oriented architecture to develop an application that could be embedded on third-party sites. This code could actually be used as a marketing tool. Those sites that embed it would, in fact, be promoting your...
2007-02-2614 minpodcasts @ComputerWeeklyAndy Mulholland - What's the buzz with SOA?It is hard to avoid service oriented architecture. SOA is a technology the whole IT industry is talking about. Microsoft, IBM, HP, Sun, Novell, BEA, Tibco and other leading suppliers all have an SOA product line. SOA represents the latest method to link enterprise systems together using EAI (enterprise application integration).
The internet and HTML has shown the value of global standards and this has led to the concept of web services. As he explains in this ComputerWeekly.com interview (www.computerweekly.com/podcasts), Andy Mulholland, global chief technology officer of Capgemini believes that SOA makes IT integration easier because...
2007-02-2616 min