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EU Vote on Clinical Trials Data - Please Contact MEPs Now

Reading Shakespeare: the Next Act of Open Data

Approaching the cyberwar precipice

The Spreadsheet and BYOD anarchy

Why We Need Open Source: Three Cautionary Tales

Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight *Against* the Blind?

The Importance of Being Attributed

Happy 10th Anniversary, Groklaw

FRAND Is Broken: Time To Bin It [Updated]

Open Data, Creative Destruction and Money

Beating the biometric fraudsters

Why bother benchmarking?

BMC Software goes private - what it means for users

Bringing big data to fraud management

Why the Idea of the Software Patent Does Not Fly

EU Consultations: A Modest Proposal

The Most Dangerous Windows Infection of All

BYOD in schools: Knocking loudly on the door

Open Source (Seeds) Under Threat

Life-Saving from Race-Winning IoT Technology

Zombie Problem: Stop Dancing On The Grave

Bridge over the troubled waters: The EU skills gap

Benefit Claimants Must Use Ancient Microsoft Software

The Free, Open Web: 20 Years of RF Licensing

Governments risk fragmentating cyber-security strategy

Samsung Galaxy S4: Why it is important for fraud management professionals

European Commission Replies to My IPRED Letter

Collaborate with your non-security peers to see how objectives intersect

Technical Baccalaureate: It might actually work

So Capita gets ITIL but will people finally 'get' ITIL?

Gartner: CRM should be about earning customers for life

What the Letzgo Hunting vigilantes can teach the Home Office

Observations on the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Please Write to MEPs *Now* about TAFTA/TTIP

Active Defence: Adapting cyber defences to the threat

Please Write to Your MPs About Snooper's Charter

OpenStack Summit Report

Hosting Companies Shouldn't Be Parasites

IT Service Management benchmarks - for you, by you

Clinical Trials Must be Open Data: Please Contact MEPs

Collected insights on Microsoft's Q3 performance

Software Patents Storming Up the Agenda Again

Outsourcing: Beyond cheap labour

Why CISPA Shows We Need Strong EU Data Protection

How do S&R pros keep up with disruption?

Cloud Bill of Rights for SaaS apps

Tier II and alternate location outsourcing options

OpenStack goes Grizzly, Azure IaaS goes live

Bring back the start button, Microsoft...

Hurry up Symantec

The Future of Commercial Open Source: Foundations

Read Any Law Journals Lately?

Gov.uk: Open by (Award-Winning) Design

Could Maggie have stopped Microsoft?

OpenStack Summit: Day one round up

Why the UK shouldn't fear a Cyber Pearl Harbour

Data centres: Taking control of TCO

IBM makes major commitment to flash

Mobile: Cost reduction or business transformation?

Two-step verification will end consensual impersonation

Italy's Great Leap Forward for Openness?

EU Proposal for (Nearly) Open Data [Update]

OpenDaylight and the Future of Enterprise Software

I Re-send My IPRED Letter to the European Commission

Google Under Attack in the EU: Microsoft to the Rescue?

Adopting IPv6 is a Corporate Business Issue

Big Data's reluctant forty percent

Mozilla and the Open Source Browser Bonanza

How to become a smarter buyer of cloud services

Mobile and video are embedding in UC

MDM: Harnessing the power of your data

The architects of our own destruction

Avoid the social media binary

Hyper-portability of tablets drives worker productivity

Letter to European Commission on IPRED

The Great IPRED Consultation Fiasco

IT and marketing: Separate agency hype from reality

Sourcing strategies to drive digital disruption: Early and fast-evolving

Why is effortless customer service so hard to deliver?

The importance of customer 'choice' in ITSM tool selection

Please Respond Now to Biased IPRED Consultation

Celebrate Document Freedom Day; Then We Win

Is the Semantic Web and linked data ready for primetime?

Please Register for the EU's IPRED Consultation *Now*

Sustainability reporting: Going beyond a box ticking exercise

The Great "Cyber" Con

Do you know what your customers need?

Open Source: That's the Way to Do It

Why the Unitary Patent Will Harm European Innovation

UK Politician Hates the (Digital) Environment

Strike and Skype will take your job

Python Settles Trademark Dispute

User Data Ownership & Strong Security Demanded for Smart Home Metering

The Test Data Warehouse - managing quality into your data

Leveson Regulation To Impact Social Media?

Why TAFTA Matters, and What We Should Do About It

Cisco Services can it deliver on growth plans?

Seven priorities in the shift from CMO to Chief Digital Officer

Storage quality of service is a must-have

Impact of the SQL-Hadoop marriage on infrastructure

Refactoring the product owner

Licensing under virtualisation - time for change

The Salesforce.com platform is powering ISV growth

IBM Pulse 2013: Big Blue talked of its customers' customers

Reading the Google Reader Tea-leaves

Open Mindsets Link 3D Printing & Internet of Things

VMware takes the cover off its public cloud

Is This What Google Really Thinks About Privacy?

Education, 3D printing and all that

What the EU Pornography Ban is Really About

Mobile BI and Cloud BI evaluation criteria

Does Government need a transformed technology stack for its brave new digital world?

RSA 2013: The age of security commercialism

How data architects can improve patient services

Copyright: A Modest Proposal

Sharepoint 2013: Head in the Clouds

Is Mozilla "Undermining the Openness of the Internet"?

Four steps for optimising customer service operations

EU Copyright Dialogue: The Great Sham(e)

Energy industry: Who will win in the cloud?

Taking business process management to the next level

The VMware community has the innovator's dilemma

Breaking down the Internet of Silos

Stop ICANN's Plans for Closed Generic Domains

Digital experience governance doesn't have to be so bad

Financial services big data - the regulator is looking on

What to expect of your test managers

Home working: Marissa Mayer's Yahoo! move isn't unusual

IBM embraces Emerson for DCIM

Surfing the "mobile shift"

France Considers Operating System-Level Filtering

Mozilla to the Rescue, Again?

Making a success of enterprise apps stores

MWC: More global and more disruptive than ever before

NetApp announces all flash storage strategy

When BYOD went to college

Select Committee Inquiry into Clinical Trials Data

Compustorage clusters: A new model for converged infrastructure

Paving the way for private cloud deployments

More thoughts on SAP's maintenance price hike

Business intelligence leader - a job description

EU Data Protection: Please Write to MEPs Now

Will FIDO find friends?

Datacentre networking: The awkward teenage years

Python Trademark Filer Ignorant Of Python?

Get bullish on software

Python in Peril - Please Help

Unitary Patent A Threat To Small Business

Computer Science in schools (postponed again)

API management: A key component of modern application architecture

Making sense of Big Data without a data scientist in sight

Bit9's operational oversight is probably your operational reality

SharePoint 2013: Preparing for the future

BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger

Automation: The only way to really 'do more with less'?

iSPIRT: Why India's new software think tank will struggle

EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists

Compulsory Chip Implants in Dogs: the Internet of Things Dimension

Analysis: New SAP customers face maintenance hike

CDB: Not Dead Yet

We do a great job. Our dashboard is a sea of green... Really?

Why customer relationship management matters

UK National Curriculum: A Level Playing-Field?

Server virtualisation: Driving value above and beyond the hypervisor

The Great University Challenge

NZ, Don't Make Our Mistake on Software Patents As Such

Dell: Going private offers less risk to customers than the current path

Crowd Funding: gains whether you win or lose

Mobile's next era: Not apps, not websites but experiences

Is your IT service desk customer experience up to scratch?

Vibrancy of London IoT Meetups

Sync-n-share services: The next big play for storage suppliers?

Copyright: Finally, the Evidence is Coming

UK Government Fails Its First Big Procurement Test

Blackberry 10 - it's the enterprise stupid...

The coming PC management crisis: A hypothesis

Build best-in-class digital customer experience teams: Five questions for AD&D pros

Partners will use cloud as a loss leader

The Battle for the Soul of EU Privacy

Gartner: Master Data Management promises assured business outcomes and transformation

A new way to approach storage - data organisation and data interfaces

Are you like Oracle when it comes to the Cloud?

Why is Facebook Graph Search important?

Knox! Knox! Who's there? Open Vault

Seven steps for measuring social enterprise Return on Investment

We, the People; We, the Coders

Do you have BI on BI?

Open Source Nexus You Can Visit

The best way to develop mobile apps? Don't develop mobile apps!

The new frontiers of data consumption

Another Reason to Use Open Source: Sane Licensing

The new dialogue with risk and the CIO office - 2013 Issue of the Year

Are you ready to move away from deterministic build or buy?

On the road with DCIM - Affirmation & embellishment of our underlying thesis

A 'BYO' too far?

Open Compute Project - Rising relevance and more stakeholders

Will Neelie Kroes Defend or Destroy EU Net Neutrality?

MIS-management data: Evidence based policy does not work

News analysis: SAP Business Suite on HANA

The essence of Agile testing: Make testing part of your SDLC (and much more)

Forrester's top 15 trends for customer service

Rival implementation paths - yet BYOD still hits a wall

Toxic Cloud Computing, and How Open Source Can Help

Intel makes its mark in the HPC segment with Xeon Phi

Another government, another NHS IT programme?

WYWO Open Source: SoC, FOSDEM, Vert.x and more

The world's first cyberwar has started

The Atlantic Ocean divides financial aspirations for CISOs in 2013

What does quality look like?

Customer service: Why it matters - and how to do it right

Fighting for Open Access

Oracle delivers on SPARC promises

Enterprise mobility - are you ready for the ride?

WYWO: Digital Rights

Another Reason to Use Open Source: Auditability

A 2012 security incident recap by the numbers

The economics of copy data

Looking for results? Look at the Cloud

Sharpen your skills to keep SVM relevant

WYWO: Open Source

Problem Solving: Solutions by RM, Capita and Ubuntu

EU Data Protection and Open Standards

Why Microsoft Windows Intune should be on your radar

OpenStreetMap: the Open Source of the Mobile Age

IT service management in 2013 - How far have we come since 2009?

EU FRAND Report Signals Problems

Rethinking advanced technology for maintenance

Big Data predictions for 2013

How to decrease the carbon footprint of your data centre - part 2

Oracle Fusion Applications Update - The Inside Story

The top CRM trends for 2013

Using the new year to reassess Microsoft SharePoint deployments

Five common practices that lead to failed IT compliance audits and security breaches

Twitter, stress and confusion will define the security landscape in 2013

Building the business case for data governance

After ACTA: Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement

Can Sun still shine for Oracle?

Build, buy or outsource customer service solutions?

Make a resolution: Kill your P@55W0rD policies

European Commission's Low Attack on Open Source

Happy New Year? UK Copyright Proposals

A Cyber Christmas Carol - with apologies to Charles Dickens

What ACTA Taught Us in 2012

Mr. Cable: Disconnected from Digital Reality

Behind Bern's Open Source Policy

ACTA in 2012: From Desperation to Inspiration

Thoughts on the ERP market

The pragmatic definition of Big Data

How do you maintain your security edge?

Big data -an untapped opportunity for UK Government

Top 10 BI predictions for 2013 and beyond

Have confidence in your compliance policies

Snooper's Charter Down but Not Out

Still Time to Avert the EU Unitary Patent Disaster

Snoopers Charter Report Summary

The art of analytics

Scale-out meets virtualisation

If you're getting a good deal on your enterprise tools, maybe you're the product

Help Avoid the EU Unitary Patent Disaster

G Cloud - What are the barriers to acceptance?

OmniChannel retail IT M&A predictions for 2013

Open Data Institute Bodes Well for Internet of Things

How gremlins and Vanilla Ice can help us deliver better IT services

Mobile devs - The 3 visual tooling changes that will make your life better in 2013

M-Commerce: Saviour of the high street

The not-so-dark side of Social Engineering

Create your transformation strategy for digital experience delivery

Virtual Learning... why?

Intended To Fail?

Tech could answer Cameron's small business cashflow conundrum

European Commission Meeting on Copyright

Yes, social media is risky - Find a way to make it work

Make data confidence index part of your BI architecture

The rise, fall and rise of software asset management

Batting on a Sticky WCIT, Defending Openness

Transformation to Agile can't ignore strategic sourcing decisions

Bottom-Up IoT Innovation Thriving

The social media revolution - Why energy companies need to act now

Another Problem with Copyright; How to Fix It

How Boards Should Prepare for IoT Security

SAP moves upstream

eBook revolution postponed

The Forrester Wave: Email content security

Personalisation isn't enough - Get up close and contextual instead

2012 cloud predictions - Winners & losers

Gathering Evidence for a Fact-Based Copyright Policy

Open Rights Group To Intervene in Speculative Invoicing Case

Cloud keys an era of new IT responsiveness and efficiency

The elephant and the Internet

Computing in schools - an exercise in futility

HP's troubles continue, but does it matter?

Munich Shows How Open Source Saves Big Money

Market consolidation in the customer service space

Wide area storage solutions.... A redux of Wide Area File Services?

IBM Global Business Services refines its business technology value proposition

Gartner: The data centre professional's agenda

Hands-on observations of the Microsoft Surface: Compelling

Portugal Moves Forward on Open Standards

What Sinofsky's exit means to us

InfoSec, structural engineering, and the Security Architecture Playbook

Why do MDM projects go wrong - Tackling the issues

HMRC's IT spend reached a record in 2011/12

HP's Autonomy fraud allegations. Get real...

How Open Data Can Save Money - and Lives

Seven reasons Windows 8 adoption in the enterprise is at risk

Calling all Hadoop vendors

Common mistakes in the era of digital disruption

Why we buy computers we do not need

Horizon 2020: Defending Open Access and Open Data

EMC Analyst Day - Thoughts and Opinions

Stars matter: The secrets of successful app developers

Looking at database clouds from both sides now

Stars matter: The secrets of successful app developers

In search of excellence: Ten reasons why your IT organisation needs a Test Centre

Is Windows 8 Dead On Arrival In The Enterprise?

Digital experience implementation partners

The need for quality data and improved processes brings CFO and CROs together

A Tale of Two Lock-ins

The Ctrl-V generation

Engineer at the Top

Q: Which apps should I move to the cloud? A: Wrong question

Mozilla's Big Comeback

From Open Government to Open Contracting

Spain Too Requires RF for Open Standards

IoT: a hub for social change

HP and Intel announce Poulson and New Integrity servers

Capita ONE is watching you

Virtual modelling: A new Way of making IT decisions

IoT Takes Off Bottom-Up

Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin on the New Lock-in

How to secure everything, everywhere

Admin rights - Your Achilles Heel

Does Rooting Your Phone Void Your Warranty?

The Comic Side of IoT

A Bottom-Up Revolution?

A week after Hurricane Sandy: How did our business technology resiliency plans fare?

Risk management & business technology resiliency - What's changed since 2009

A Step Change is A-Coming

Is FRAND Dying?

Q: Which apps should I move to the Cloud?

You wait forever for a Computing GCSE and then 27 come along at once

The Irresistible Rise of Android

Maybe we should rename Managed Print Services, "Managed Innovative Services"?

Keep It Simple

Craft your future state BI reference architecture

Impact of $35 tablet (Aakash) on the mobile eco system

James Bond, cybersecurity and sloth

Tectonic shift in the ARM ecosystem - AMD announces ARM intentions

Craft your future state BI reference architecture

It's time to start spending again

BMC Pushes The ITSM Tool Envelope With MyIT

Finally: UK Open Standards are RF, not FRAND

Storage: File systems are the foundation for protocol convergence

Preventing the nightmare scenario: Software quality for IT projects

UK Gets Open Definitions Right

Open Source Outlook in UK Government still Cloudy?

The onslaught of the mobile revolution on storage

Fostering the new data culture

More ITSM tool bells and whistles, and where the real focus of vendor attention should be

Hurricane Sandy shows a dramatic improvement from botched Katrina response

Big data, big analytics and better business decisions

From Open Source to Crowdfunding

A chat with Trend Micro: Consumer security apps and services extend beyond security and privacy

£20K incentive to teach computing... would you?

Big Data: The worst category name ever

Give Your Views on Europe's Digital Future

OECD Gets It: The Internet Works, So Don't Break It

Microsoft's tablet and smartphone licensing: Still counting devices when the world only wants to count users

Are we seeing the end of ERP as we know it?

Chinese Internet of Things initiative: Set up to succeed

Two Apple devices weigh less than two Windows 8 devices. Will employees live with just one?

UN Assault on the Open Internet and Privacy

If you thought Big Data was about storage... think twice

China: Why Internet of Things awareness should be on your corporate due diligence agenda

Ysgol goes FOSS

The Internet of Things revolution: wake-up call for corporates and politicians

Is your Wi-Fi strategy enterprise-strength?

Is Amazon Playing Fair?

Rights? You have no right to your eBooks.

Carpe Diem - could it benefit Government IT?

Trapped on the wrong side of the Data Divide?

How to decrease the carbon footprint of your data centre

Why pay attention to your customer service?

Can bankers make the Internet less risky and more secure?

Does CETA Spell ACTA?

Keith Vaz is wrong, the O'Dwyer case is not at all like Gary McKinnon's

Goodbye privacy: Conventional security can be neutered by a careless programmer

NHS Information Strategy: Patient feedback and social media

50 shards of ITIL

GOV.UK "Open" for Business; More to Follow

What makes a resiliency program mature?

Kicking Out Comic Sans

G-Cloud - What's holding back the public sector?

DreamForce musings (a month late)

Why This EU Meeting on FRAND in Open Source?

The Huawei risk should be managable

Last Chance: Consultation on Net Neutrality in EU

The dangers of taking your eye off integration...

Communications Data Bill: Their secrecy, your verdict

Snooper's Charter: 19,000 Emails Against, 0 In Favour

Yes, Network Effects Are a Problem for Open Formats

Does green still resonate with procurement officers and IT managers?

The fall and fall of the proprietary school database

Disruptive Technology: A hybrid approach

Before and After ACTA - the Video

NPR's 'Car Talk,' auto parts and the price of your web content management project

IBM raises the CPU technology bar with POWER7+

Chancellor's Shares for Employee Rights Swap is not as mad as it sounds...

Information security metrics insanity, the 3Rs and dashboards

EU Unitary Patent Vote: It's On, Again, Probably

Digital business design is the new integration

Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure?

Back to the School of the Future

Declaration on Parliamentary Openness

Stale mate

Enterprise 'overextended'? You need to evolve your identity strategy

A faster horse: It's time for enterprise personal computing 2.0

2 weeks on the road: The Dell XPS 13 vs. the MacBook Air

Mature IT: It's time for IT departments to enforce grown-up passwords and intelligent monitoring

The big 4G win for UK Ltd

Why ECJ Must be Ultimate Arbiter of the Unitary Patent

Sourcing and vendor management professionals' rising scope of responsibilities

Financial software is broken; big data is the answer

Out of Africa: More Microsoft FUD

Where companies are investing to deliver great digital experiences

Security best practice - Why should you care and what should you do?

First Open Forum Academy Conference Proceedings

Preparing for the Big Data explosion

EU Open Voluntarism Consultation: Your Views

Bring back Becta

Regulations shouldn't be restrictive

Let's Clean up the Clean IT Project

Oracle Claims MySQL IS Safe With Them

The biggest risk to BC preparedness - third-party risk

What do BI vendors mean when they say they integrate with Hadoop

Neelie Kroes: Passion and Pence for Openness

MP confirms government to repeal website blocking provisions of DEA

Data centre power and efficiency - Public enemy #1 or the latest media punching bag?

Managing the social impact of least privilege security

Let's talk about the privileged

Four points to ponder in a digitally disruptive world

Event Report: Dreamforce X emerges as the South by Southwest for the enterprise

Innovate in schools or die of boredom

SUSEcon2012 - SUSE's coming out party

Megaupload/Dotcom case gets even weirder as NZ PM calls for inquiry into use of NZ security services and wiretaps

What are S&R pros doing about data security and privacy?

Incident response isn't about point solutions - it's about an ecosystem

Cloud-native identity management is suddenly looking like a winner

Riding the waves of change

Now Facebook wants YOU to grass-up friends not using their real name

HP Intelligent Security Solutions: Breaks down Security Silo

Resiliency is no longer optional

The Next Attack on Net Neutrality

The ties that bind: How strong is the glue that holds your cloud together?

UK.gov NOT squatting on £1bn unused IPv4 addresses

Why your data networks could be costing you money

Beyond Open for Business

Upsell versus downbuy - Purchasing meets sales at IBM's smarter commerce event

When it comes to data security, you don't need a silver bullet, you need a framework

iPhone 5 Misses Standardisation Opportunity

Want a better experience with your enterprise software?

Digital disruption: What software dev & delivery competencies matter?

AVG: What they're doing right, where they just make noise & what it means for S&R pros

May your best laid plans not go to waste any longer

The opportunity for Cloud in banking

Open Data Institute Gets Ready to Open Its Doors

Is the rule of three in technology markets - a sign market has consolidated?

What a Wonderful Piece of Work is Opus

Microsoft - Innovator or aggregator?

Dear help desk: What's safe to do in the cloud?

Application whitelisting offers a tantalising alternative to popular 'Whac-A-Mole' antivirus strategies

What is IT's role in digital customer experience strategies?

Application development: Pricing end-to-end lifecycle management

DNA and all that

Fighting Software Patents in the Unitary Patent Again

Infosys buys Lodestone for $350M

Imbibing macs in the enterprise: Apple Mac shops share their secrets for success

The new engagement platform drives the shift from transactions

VMworld 2012: Back to the future (of the data centre)

A Question of (Open) Standards

Microsoft Windows Server 2012: Worth the wait?

Despite negative attention, outsourcing works

Optimism for the Gelsinger era at VMware

"Fair Use" Robots? Science Fiction!

Enterprise social networks - growing up inside and outside the firewall

Staffing for IT service delivery success: Think employee, think customer, then repeat

Metrics reloaded

CIMI v1.0 is here!

Enterprise mobility: How fast can development go?

SaaS for ITSM: Getting past the hype

Visions of the future

My VMworld take-away #1: Wanova mirage matters but employee freedom remains elusive

EU Wants to Sneak in a Mini-ACTA by the Backdoor - Update

The future of digital customer experience is more than mobile

IBM in dispute with South West One partners

Nobody is perfect - including certificate authorities

Can US government shift to outside-in digital approach?

Sage advice: The 2012 Sage Software partner summit

ICT exams are the problem

The future of Microsoft .Net