All articles by Cbr Rolling Blog
Cbr Rolling Blog
Top tip for the ambitious CIO: become the organisation’s M&A expert
Want a better CIO job? One with real clout, a proper Top Table position? Then, my friend, you need to become your organisation’s in-house M&A domain expert. Here’s why…
Surprise surprise, we’re facing tight IT budgets after all
Blaming the meltdown in the Eurozone, Gartner has sharply lowered its outlook for global IT industry growth from the first quarter of this year — when it forecast worldwide IT spending would grow 5.3% — to 3.9%. But what does this outlook really tell us?
Shock, horrror: ICL alive and well in 75 year-old Fujitsu
There may well be readers of CBR who have never heard of a computer company called ICL. It now of course forms part of the global electronics, telecoms and engineering giant Fujitsu – along with other blasts from the computing past such as Amdahl and others who have long since been absorbed into its multi-national folds…
X-Shoring: eating a mid-level IT role near you soon
Perhaps this one should be filed in the ‘shouldn’t be that surprised’ department: a larger proportion of software services will be supported offshore this year, according to a poll of 200 UK IT directors by Spanish IT consultancy group Valueshore.
HDS move for cautious cloud users spells more momentum for trend
Storage player Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) claims something of a market first with what it says is the first onsite, fully-managed, pay-per-use storage system for businesses – a kind of private cloud that the customer doesn’t need to take any real ownership of at all
IT industry resurgence needs some IT managers with spines to best make use of
Two news items released on the same day that seem to be on the same page of the book though from very separate sources is not a basis for any kind of scientific analysis. Nonetheless, we were struck by two examples of possible IT return to confidence
Banks struggling to do real 24×7 have BMC utility fix
One of the perennial questions asked about financial services is when they will migrate off their big, heavy COBOL spaghetti systems onto newer packages. Very soon, these conversations peter out as it soon becomes clear banks just can’t afford to do that.