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ComputerWeekly.com brings you a weekly round-up of the latest IT news from the UK. Also available: interviews with leading IT experts on a range of business computing and information technology topics.
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In 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.
In 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.
Dell 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.
US 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 Data to optimise fleet usage, reduce idle time and fuel consumption and save millions a year as a result.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
Defence 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."
In 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.
Mike 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."
In 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.
At 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.
In 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.
Art 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.
In 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.
More 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.
"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.
In this podcast, Brian Franz, CIO at Diageo, explains how he achieves a variable cost structure for IT, using outsourcing and running global business processes.
In 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."







