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BP chairman-style public flayings: The way to make us all take security seriously at last?

Is the public treatment of BP chief executive Tony Hayward something we’re likely to see repeated for CIOs guilty of data breaches?

Let Buffy optimise your IT operations: a story of abstraction

Virtualisation should not just be seen as a way to crunch down your server fleet or as a way to outsource IT to the cloud. Its real value may lie in finally allowing us to get to a real abstraction layer in software that could lead to much greater business flexibility

If you’re here – who’s looking after the shop?

Don’t take your eye off the prize when embracing social media

BT to make London super-fast

BT’s new broadband infrastructure should provide the UK economy with a timely boost

IBM serves up Wimbledon app

IBM has launched an iPhone and Android app just in time for this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament – one that will help make Andy Murray’s glorious failure more interactive than ever before

One man’s cloud – another man’s corporate network?

Some might argue that the concept of a ‘private’ cloud infrastructure involves a certain contradiction in terms. But the results achieved by defence company BAE Systems suggest it’s an option worth taking seriously

The Dot Com explosion’s ripples continue

Current CIO focus on cost cutting will lead not to stagnation in the ICT market but “the next wave of innovation,” claims the European leader of storage player Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).

Global IT industry – a curate’s egg of ‘growth’?

What state is the global IT industry in? It’s sometimes genuinely hard to get a clear answer to this, as there is no OECD-style collective data gathering exercise that could be assumed to be completely neutral.

Avanade’s CIO: No reason to go outside the Microsoft catalogue

No room for Google, open source or even Oracle

Businesses in the south lead the digital charge

Companies in the south of the UK are leading the way when it comes to embracing digital communications to keep in touch with customers, according to new research.The research, carried out by Virgin Media Business, found that firms based in the