Blogs

The merger of Misys and Temenos

ACTA Update IV

Open web technologies you need to know

The elephant in the room

Doting grandma syndrome

Why the payments industry should be opposed to SOPA

DMARC aims to reinforce financial critical infrastructure

ACTA Update III

MacBook Air: The ultra ultrabook and business Windows, too

A New OSI

Innovation is often a bricolage

SeaMicro introduces low-power Xeon servers

HTML5: The right time right place for mobile?

Official: The White House Loves Open Source

ITIL adoption: 5 steps that can help with success

ACTA Update II

PRINCE2 Professional: Can you hack it?

GOV.UK: What Open Source Has Been Waiting For?

ACTA Update I

Computing in schools: abdicating responsibility

Business intelligence is going mobile: are you ready?

BMC to acquire Numara Software

ACTA's Back

Is Oracle falling from grace?

BMC acquires Numara Software in a mid-market makeover

The end of Apple?

Whitehall asks IT company about "tea at The Ritz" offer to GPs

The road to copyright court is paved with good intentions

Part 2: The big private sector sorts school ICT

Insecurity By Obscurity

Copyright case spells trouble for developers

SSL domain authentication needs improvement

DWP justifies £316m HP contract in era of small deals

UK Gov sorts School ICT!

When is an IT strategy a business strategy?

Planning for failure - Strategies to protect yourself in 2012

Here comes the open web - embrace it, Part 2

Here comes the open web - embrace It

Be lazy, be fast

Virtualisation security - Better late than never

e-books: You Can't Take It With You

Embracing the open web

Computing in Schools: The Great Ctrl-Alt-Del

Develop effective security metrics

SOPA Stopped: So Back to ACTA

An investment strategy checklist for RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins

Is software pricing a science or an art?

Juniper weaves security throughout its domain strategy

Olympics 2012 - Is your I&O organisation ready?

Social IT support: Didn't we do this in the 1990s?

How the market failed school ICT

Why is buying an IT service management tool like buying a car?

You think changing to increase business agility is hard?

Davos 2012: Technology can deliver

HTML 5 makes the browser smarter

Apple's iBooks 2: an Attack on Educational Freedoms

Why SOPA and PIPA are bad for open source

The Google Dialogues: Search Neutrality

Mo' Data, Mo' Problems

Orphan Works and the Digital Copyright Exchange

Obama calls IT service providers to action

Does RSA understand what happened to them?

Software tagging - rebooted for license optimisation

Coding the New Latin III

Value and vendor options for 'global' mobility management

Symantec scoops up LiveOffice

Reshaping schools ICT - we can all play our part

HTML5 gets pushy

Are you sleepwalking through Twitter?

Two Fatal Flaws in the O'Dwyer Judgment

Gove solves the problem of poor ICT teachers

Learning from the AstraZeneca email blunder

Is Microsoft Blocking Linux Booting on ARM Hardware?

Five Cloud/SaaS contract negotiation tips for 2012

"An Open-Source World"? Where's The Open Source?

Agile development and robots: are you smarter than a 10th grader?

BETT opens as ICT is scrapped by Gove

How "Throwing One Away" Makes Open Source Better

Coding is the New Latin II

Coming to FOSDEM?

UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed

Can Mozilla Unify Open Source?

Submission to Consultation on Copyright: Orphan Works

Uncovering the value in workforce data with analytics

Public service websites: Measuring value for investment

Intellect and DH have a joint plan - but for what?

Ten significant business analytics technology events

From the coal face: real world it service management and ITIL adoption sound bites

Defining risk - ISO 31 000 doesn't make it any clearer

Software requirements are where we define value

The route to enterprise mobility is through process re-engineering

Of Open Source and the European Commission

Yes, gamification can help your business internally

IT and breast implants

ITIL global adoption rates, or at least an indication

Match cloud expectations with customer realities in the new year

Azure in education

SCIM cloud provisioning standard reaches a major milestone

Top 10 IT service management challenges for 2012

Ten mega business trends to watch for in 2012

FAUT fights FAHQT in battle to beat Babel

Governing By Consent

The rise of Hadoop: Is ETL dead?

Software is not code; it creates experiences

EU "No Disconnect Strategy" something to praise

Interview with Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation, Part II

Interview with Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation

GSM now wide open to eavesdropping and tracking

Last Minute Gift Ideas

UK Government Open Standards: The Great Betrayal of 2012

Stop 3-strikes shenanigans, say Irish data protectors

Why Java Isn't Dead On Ubuntu

Clearing the fog over the future of security in the cloud

Merry Christmas - it's another Twitter XSS bug!

BT Joins the Patent Hall of Shame

ServiceNow Knowledge11: ITSM and social learning for us all

IBM's acquisition of Emptoris further reduces IT sourcing professionals' options

Shining a harsh light on cloud washing

Searching for privacy in a world without secrets

Oracle FY12 Q2 earnings call preview...

People in Glasshouses (With Windows) Shouldn't Throw Stones

Nokia Lumia 900 Ace release date rumour: February

A European perspective on the USA PATRIOT Act

Email: Threat or menace?

Harkening to Hargreaves: UK Copyright Consultation

Ofsted lambasts school ICT as youth unemployment hits record high

The New Digital Divides

Honest: Accounting packages really can deliver business advantage

BT grows plans for 'super-fast' fibre broadband

Three things I'd tell your CIO

Time to move off your old homegrown DDI solution

Open Data: Europe Starts to Get It

Class-action lawsuit against HP for not disclosing vulnerabilities has huge implications

Government Cyber Security Strategy: Heart in the right place but...

InfoSec: Enterprise architecture building codes

Open Source Trust Abused

Cloud infrastructure security is the issue

Windows 8 beta download release date, app store

From Open Source to Open Research: Horizon 2020

Cheating in school ICT and other subjects

NHS IT scheme still soaking up billions says The Times

Newsflash for the ITSM community: SaaS is a red herring

Forrester Waves on enterprise GRC and IT GRC

Apache: lean and mean, durable, fun

Open Source Total Cost of Ownership 2.0

Women go back to the kitchen - to bake Rasberry Pi?

When will we have IaaS cloud standards? Not until 2015

Flood of EU Software Patents on the Way?

SAP acquisition of SuccessFactors re-engergises its HCM and SaaS strategy

SuccessFactors acquisition puts SAP in direct competition with Workday and Taleo

Open source, coding and the Cloak of Invisibility

Weighing up the cost of the Cloud

Open source offers an answer to the CarrierIQ spying controversy

Helpful judgment from the Advocate General

More UK Open Data Moves - and Why That Makes Sense

Apple loses in Oz; Samsung to sell Galaxy Tab again

Sharing the ITSM and ITAM goodness of CA World

Does hospital IT need airline-style certification?

Some thoughts on digital strategy

Koha and Why We Need Foundations

Getting Lost in the Patent Thicket Thicket

Update on Cisco's collaboration strategy

Coding - will it be the new Latin in UK Schools?

Let The Bible Go Free!

Executive profiles: Disruptive tech leaders in social business

Patent Scandal of Laws Made Behind Closed Doors

You need to support the people not the technology

Does Free Software cost jobs?

Nokia Lumia 800 battery life bug fix

HP expands its x86 options with Mission Critical programme

Enabling rapid global business expansion through SVM

Another reason not to cloud wash

Pay-by-mobile ahoy, say Forrester and ABI

SABAM: A Turning Point in EU Internet Law?

All students must learn to code, Star Trek will 'make it so'

Infonomics = big data + information optimisation

Investment Protection With Open Source

US-Finnish HUD contact lens shows promise

Have you considered BI for IT Service Management?

Reflections on Hadoop World 2011

Platform as a Service cloud development is poised for breakout

Rabbi vs. Steve Jobs: iThis & iThat cause sadness

Of Open Data Startups and Open Businesses

Prioritise mobility in your IT planning

Open Source Nurtures Innovation

Face of the future

AMD Releases Interlagos and Valencia

Who in your company is the most enthusiastic about cloud?

Is the cheap security solution worth the risk?

The IT service desk: On a quest for survival

Still Crippled By "Free"

Help Fight Against Extrajudicial Suppression of UK Domain Names

The state of ITSM in 2011 report is now available

Turning your suppliers into 'trusted advisors'

Why Barnes & Noble is an Open Source Superstar

The new productivity platforms: Your solution to the AD&D crunch

Demand for MFT driven by enterprise compliance requirements

Oracle Fusion - The emerging truth, part II

From the inside out: Building a customer-centric infrastructure

Did Hell freeze over? Not yet, but it's getting cold!

Need faster App delivery? Consider a CIS approach

The magic of offsites

Free Microsoft upgrade when you threaten open source?

Why The Internet of Things Will Be Open

Revealed: Siri app voice artist on iPhone 4s: @Jon_Briggs

Oracle Fusion - The emerging truth, part I

Friends lament departure of Deputy Govt CIO

Mozilla's Brendan Eich on the Birth of Firefox

Apple prefers security by obscurity

Kudos to KPN

HP embraces Calxeda ARM architecture with "Project Moonshot"

An app is not for life...

BPI asks BT to block Pirate Bay using child-porn filter

NetApp, Sophos join list of tech being used by Syrian state snoopers

Open Source News

£99 Nokia Windows Phones soon? ST-Ericsson SoC switch hints at future.

Dipping Into the UK Government's Open Source Procurement Toolkit

The ABC of ICT - the top ten people issues

Mobile enablement means access

Nokia's free Wi-Fi; connecting people in London, with Spectrum Interactive

Cop shop outsourcing loophole must go

Key areas to consider in SaaS contract negotiation

#LondonCyber: our very own Star Trek conference

Mitigating your cyber risk from Advanced Persistent Threats

What Microsoft's Patent FUD Reveals About Its R&D

Don't look around! Microsoft zombie returns to UK schools

Shaping the future with participation

UNIX - Dead or alive?

What are enterprises really doing in the cloud?

Mozilla's Brendan Eich on JavaScript - and Microsoft Buying Netscape

Detente in networking war signals a new area of choice for I&O

You need to act more like an interactive agency

Sourcing & vendor management: A key driver in the customer experience ecosystem

Nokia Lumia 800 review roundup

Check out an Enterprise Architect's view of consumerisation technologies

Nokia to release 3 Windows Phones

Bringing enterprise SLAs into the cloud era

Calling the Anti-Net Neutrality Bluff

Green shoots: Getting back to supporting enterprise growth

Supplier risk and performance management takes centre stage at Emptoris' customer event

Ready, fire, aim! Client virtualisation - how ready are you?

Dell World - New image. New company?

Are you happy with your IT service management tool?

Back to basics with passwords

Mobility is the tail that will wag the UC dog

Please Respond to the PDC Consultation (and PDQ)

How to avoid the mobile goat rodeo

Twitter, open source, DNA and bread making

Three myths clouding CIO judgment

Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq

When Oracle faces cloud oblivion...

ITSM practitioner health check: The community strikes back

European clouds - the virtual journeys

Do computers solve education problems?

Of Open Source, Microsoft, India and Paraguay

Time to Rebel on Copyright?

Ecclesiastes and Pornography

Using Polyfill to cover up the cracks in HTML5

Office Suites: LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org?

Enabling By Removing Obstructions

Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security

Eric Schmidt stated the problem: here's how we can fix it!

ISPs are just not providing a good enough service for remote workers

Kickstarting the Economy

Cloud computing service or a mirage of hot air?

Operations transparency: Acting on public transportation data

HTML5 The proprietary standard

Microsoft's Subtle Knife Through the Heart of EU Software Industry

BlackBerry BBM down again; Slough of despond in EMEA

Will Nginx Be to Apache What Chrome is to Firefox?

The "NOW!" factor

Is Universal Credit deliverable? Internal report now published

Moodle goes to college

EU Greens Come On Board Pirates' Copyright Agenda

Oracle to buy HP? Too strange to happen

Office 365: Weighing up the Pros and Cons

Oracle OpenWorld Part 3

Oracle OpenWorld Part 2

Oracle OpenWorld Part 1 - The circus comes to town

The BBC does a U-turn on HTML 5

Oracle finally gets serious about cloud

IT doesn't solve business problems, so shadow IT proliferates

Silk browser is the big leap for Amazon's Fire

How do You Like your Net Neutrality: Weak or Strong?

Steve Jobs dead at 56; world loses visionary [u]

Consumerisation-driven Open Source

Samsung seeks stop to iPhone 4S release in Europe [u]

Nominet raises pittance from short domains

Will 3D visualisation improve results in the classroom?

LibreOffice Is One

First "Chromezone" Google Stores open for biz

ITSM: People are the problem, but people are the solution

What's holding CISOs back?

Well, I Do Declare: Washington and Open Government Declarations

Speaking of managing supplier risk...

Is IT Infrastructure & Operations still relevant in 'the age of the customer'?

DCIM and the new reality of Infrastructure & Operations

Turning compliance into a mandate for data governance

A model for the consulting firm of the future?

The benefits of the cloud for performance testing

Silicon Roundabout gets Googled

Back to the future: Success in the cloud

Silicon Valley versus Silicon Roundabout

Gloves-off PR: Oracle calls Autonomy CEO a liar

My Chromebook volume III: Which web suite is the winner?

Don't think BPM and customer experience are your problem?

Now this is how to do the App Internet right

Oracle calls Autonomy's Mike Lynch a liar or an amnesiac

When planning to drive though a desert - make sure your car doesn't break!

Cloud computing and EU data protection law

Openness: An Open Question

Should You Donate To Open Source Projects?

Oracle Delivers on SPARC promises with new T4 processors and systems

Virtual learning: real or imaginary?

New study yields eye-opening IT Service Management benefits

Security & Risk and Infrastructure & Operations pros can drive customer growth

Indian SMS spam plan ridiculed

Why It's Time to Party Like It's 2011

The revenge of the Politburo!

Brocade offers I&O an opportunity to control costs with their subscription programme

Corporate IT is not dead

Data is the key that ties it all together

It came from outer space

Driving business excellence with formal global networks

Your common questions on EU privacy regulations answered

OSS Please!

SAP's acquisition of Crossgate fills significant gap in e-purchasing portfolio

HP CEO Leo Apotheker to go, say rumours

Incomplete thought: Are you really data-driven or just using data to prove a point?

Surge in tenders for non-NPfIT systems from NHS trusts

Open Core MySQL

iPhone 5 & 4S revealed: 'Two more things' on October 4

Change your mobility sourcing strategy to support personal devices

Evading the security police

The Second Coming for school computing

Cloud. And cloud, cloud, cloud. Oh, yes, did I mention "cloud"?

Authentication after the RSA breach

The importance of independence

The True Cost of the Patent Trolls: Half a Trillion Dollars

Customer-driven business transformation

The age of the customer will force app delivery organisations to change

Dear Cabinet Office, public sector austerity and economic growth are not mutually exclusive

CSC Acquires AppLabs: What can we expect?

RIM's tablet night terrors

What fine whisky can teach us as end user computing professionals

Making Open Data Real: A Response

NetIQ + Novell: A nice combo that could be even better if ...

Businesses risk crumbling without better EU Cookie law guidance

An early look at Windows Server 8 - can you say cloud?

Consumerisation, innovation and the future role of sourcing and vendor management

Explaining Open Source to students in 2015

All eyes on Oracle Q1 results

The relationship between DevOps and continuous delivery

The enterprise social landscape enters teen years

Xsigo expands to a data centre fabric

Analytics: Getting the fundamentals right

Jeremy Hunt requests Google become "Big Brother" on behalf of the British Government

Do We Need a Covenant for Open Source Businesses?

How Many Open Source Foundations Do We Need?

IT value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder

Avoiding patent liability by making things at home

UK Government: Open Standards Must be RF, not FRAND

Help Stop the Blind Being Kicked in the Teeth Again

Harness the voice of the employee for competitive advantage

HP could become virtual networking giants

Me and my Chromebook 2

Michael Hart (1947 - 2011): Prophet of Abundance

Rare OSX 1Password flaw exposes plaintext passwords, password history

Four lessons from an IT success

Galaxy Tab 7.7 MIA in IFA as iPad 'copycat' row continues

Big data: Are you creating a garbage dump or mountains of gold

Software Asset Management, part deux

IBM to acquire Algorithmics

Oracle to buy HP? Stranger things have happened

Full-Disclosure, Unredacted WikiLeaks, Security and The Guardian

Salesforce wants to be the collaborative interface between your business and the market

The good, bad and ugly of technology acquisitions

Me and my Chromebook

Let the private sector guide the schools ICT curriculum

What will your app portfolio look like in 2020?

End this madness: ban -as-a-service

Open Data: Help "Make it Real"

Disaster recovery, meet the cloud

Don't like the way software is priced? Do something about it

Politicians Start Getting Digital Copyright Right

Together we stand: Agile, Lean & DevOps against complexity

Application lifecycle management is about to burst at the seams

It's not about Google vs Apple vs Microsoft - it's about freedom

Welcome to Moody's Microblog Daily Digest

Misguided metrics in workforce performance management

Application delivery must enter the age of the customer

Schmidt gives UK IT education an F

ITIL adoption mistakes to avoid

Google's grim verdict on UK school ICT

Profiling is critical for effective enterprise mobility strategies

Buyers increase SaaS contract scrutiny as deal sizes grow

Mobilise your content & collaboration applications

Risky business

Intel rewards long-suffering Itanium fans with superior Poulson features

Software development optimisation to drive business transformation

The Entrepreneur's Dilemma

UK gov U-turn: Won't censor social networks now

Steve Jobs departure doesn't change Apple's disregard for the enterprise

Steve Jobs, Mike Lynch and the future of UK IT

Met Office has IBM executive as IT head

Enterprise data runneth over

May Force.com not be with you

UK cookie crunch in 99% of public orgs

Supplier of software that holds 10 million patient records in difficulty?

Computers in schools: A Level facts and figures

More reflections on Cisco Live

HP's change in direction: Good news for application delivery professionals

Benchmarking the IT service desk - where do you stand?

Libya civil war endgame sees 'net return

Stack Wars: Episode V - The Enterprise Strikes Back

Is there a rift at the high-end for server requirements?

Open hardware, or open source hardware?

Is WebOS Android's "Stalking Horse"? [Updated]

Leave IT order-taking behind

Facebook riot "jokers" jailed for four years each

What Does Motoroogle Mean?

Open Source - Open Cloud?

LTE: Will it be as disappointing as 3G?

Social? Cloud? What about mobile?

Talent management: Get your systems right now

Why our governments need a big dose of big data

Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility and I&O professionals

Hyper-V matures as an enterprise platform

Google buys Motorola Mobility: next shot in patent war

Google bags headaches along with Motorola patents

Rotten to the Core

Catching up with SUSE

Romanian Unreasonableness

Agile 2011 needed more in the middle

SMEs once ran school ICT ... will they again?

Samsung wins partial victory in iPad clone wars

Shutting Down... the West

Cameron to censor Twitter and Facebook? Are you JOKING???

Why Does Computacenter Fear Openness?

JP Morgan Chase drives app acceleration with GPUs

Thoughts on strategic partnerships

Giving back to the IT Service Management community

Amazon Escapes the App Trap Too

Riot

A happy company-customer marriage begins with engagement

Nimbus wins a 100 TB storage deal with eBay

When in Romania...

The Business Architect Cometh

In Praise of the World Wide Web, Openness and Sharing

More Microsoft BPOS and Amazon cloud outage woes

Not my problem fields

Health Secretary on the future of NHS IT

OSCON Round-up

What Next For ITIL?

Agile And Compliance? Now That's A Product!

Why Do We Let Software Sales Reps Behave Like Tourist Souvenir Hawkers?

ITIL, Agile and Ops

Are Smart Mobile Devices Changing The Way We Deploy Enterprise WLANs?

Virgin plans free Wi-Fi for London

Schools and the Private Sector: A Marriage of Mutual Convenience

What difference will today's report on NPfIT make?

Reviewing the UK Government Response to the Hargreaves Review

Euclideon promises ten thousand times more detailed graphics

Time to Adopt the Brazilian Model of Public Software?

Murdoch mass email-deletion worries

Security blunder hits NPfIT Personal Demographics Service

MPA gets Newzbin2 win: Now what, @EdVaizey?

Intellect defends large suppliers after "cartel" claim

The Realities of Government IT for Innovators

GovIT rip-offs - surely time for a new approach

The Open Cloud Initiative

Public Accounts Committee report on NPfIT due next week

MP asks NAO to consider probe into Siemens passport IT contract

ARM waves huge profits and big prospects

Why We Should - and Can - Abolish All Patents

Gaining Clarity in the Cloud

Time to Break up Big, Bad Apple?

Stack Wars: Episode IV - A new hope (for Red on Red)

Cloud environment places premium on IT governance

Law enforcement agencies access rights to your cloud data

Why Are Hackers Becoming So Angry?

An Open Government Data Licence for the World?

21 LulzSec and Anonymous "members" arrested

Stop wasting money on WebLogic, WebSphere, and JBoss application servers

Computers are bad for education

How Should We Liberate Knowledge?

The Sun's password policy sucks

The world after user names and passwords

BBC in 'useless' UK 3G research

Why Santander & New Call Telecom came back to Blighty

Did DH deceive Public Accounts Committee on advance payments to CSC?

Measure software development by predictability, not just speed

First sign of a cloud bubble ready to pop

Lax security culture is endemic

InfoSec in the supply chain

Cisco tweaks UCS

Being prepared for fast moving security incidents

French anti-piracy HADOPI says, "No fines... yet"

The Government re-groups its forces in the war on spend

Changing information landscape offers competitive advantages to early adopters