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Mike Simons
Mike Simons
Mike Simons is the Editor of ComputerWorldUK and Techworld. He joined IDG in 2006 after almost a decade at Computer Weekly. An award winning IT and business journalist, Mike has a particularly focused on major IT projects and public sector IT. His fascination with the business and social impact of technology began at university, where he obtained an MSc at the Science Policy Research Unit of Sussex University.
Mike Simons's Blogs
Editor's blog
Most Recent Posts
- IT and breast implants
- Oracle calls Autonomy's Mike Lynch a liar or an amnesiac
- Steve Jobs, Mike Lynch and the future of UK IT
- Google bags headaches along with Motorola patents
- Welcome to the easy upgrade
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Richard Plant
Richard Plant
Richard is Computerworld’s Junior Content Manager and occasional reporter and blogger, responsible for making sure the site is full of the latest and greatest technology news from around the world. Richard joined Computerworld from the world of PR, which he likes to think of as like leaving the Empire to join the Rebel Alliance. Richard is interested in open source, new technology and science, and the world of mobile. He’s also partial to all things geek, happiest when discussing the finer points of science fiction or playing a video game or two. Catch up with him lurking on Computerworld’s Facebook page.
Richard Plant's Blogs
Windows Watch
Most Recent Posts
- Open source offers an answer to the CarrierIQ spying controversy
- It came from outer space
- Euclideon promises ten thousand times more detailed graphics
- The Sun's password policy sucks
- Civil liberties, tracking and Moore's Law
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Forrester Analysts
Forrester Analysts
Forrester Research is a technology and market research company that provides pragmatic advice to global leaders in business and technology.
Forrester Analysts's Blogs
App dev & programme management
Infrastructure & operations
Security & Risk
Sourcing and vendor management
Most Recent Posts
- What "design for mobile first" really means
- Where is GRC headed?
- The new design-driven development landscape
- A new venn of access control for the API economy
- IBM rounds out its Linux offerings with Power Linux
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Martyn Hart
Martyn Hart
Martyn Hart, chairman of the National Outsourcing Association, looks at the lessons to be learnt from the IT and business news
Martyn Hart's Blogs
HART of Outsourcing
Most Recent Posts
- Innovation and transformation: do it for the right reasons
- Offshoring - SMEs not feeling the full benefit
- George Osborne's budget - not mindful of the skills gap
- Work like Sherlock with business analytics
- Stand up and fight, or stand and deliver
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Accenture
Accenture
Analysis, insight and opinion from consultants at Accenture, one of the world's leading systems integrators
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SI and tech insights
Most Recent Posts
- Governing business demand
- Visualise value and then industrialise it
- The maturation of enterprise social collaboration
- Beyond cloud computing and Big Data
- Social media: stop talking and start doing
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Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor
Written by staff at Sirius Corporation, the Open Source services group, this blog seeks to dispel any FUD around the use of Open Source software in the Enterprise and provide perspectives on business, economics, politics, philosophy and the environment.
Mark Taylor's Blogs
Enterprise OS: How hard can it be?
Most Recent Posts
- Dear Cabinet Office, public sector austerity and economic growth are not mutually exclusive
- The government gets really serious about open source
- Open for business - SMEs take place at public sector table
- Microsoft proposes government licencing of internet access
- IT cuts, Open Sauce and harsh reality
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Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody's look at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. The blog will look at the organisations that are embracing open source, old and new alike (start-ups welcome), and the communities of users and developers that have formed around them (or not, as the case may be).
Glyn Moody's Blogs
Open Enterprise
Most Recent Posts
- ACTA Update XVI
- How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards V
- Before and After SOPA
- ACTA Update XV
- Why Microsoft Loves The Rise of (Some) Openness
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Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps
Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. A director at the Open Source Initiative and an itinerant digital rights activist, expect the unexpected, the fascinating and the infuriating.
Simon Phipps's Blogs
Simon Says...
Most Recent Posts
- Open Source Suites Highly Active
- Accommodating Telecoms
- Cabinet Office Acts On Discovery Of Undisclosed Conflict Of Interest
- OSI Supports Open Standards
- Memetic Fragments
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John Spencer
John Spencer
Dr John Spencer began his teaching career in 1981 armed with a Sinclair ZX81, thereby demonstrating two things at once: Firstly he was in at the very start of ICT in the classroom and secondly he is a sucker for duff technology. Thereafter he taught joining a start-up open source company as their Head of Education in 2002. Now John is bringing his iconoclastic disposition and tendency to throw a spanner in the works to blogging.
John Spencer's Blogs
Spannerman's Edublog
Most Recent Posts
- Mobiles in Class II: the Ofsted view
- Mobile phones come of age in school
- Free Schools: an amazing opportunity for ICT
- Flossie 2012: Girls in ICT
- The Monday morning problem
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Socitm
Socitm
The Society for IT management is the leading professional association for public sector ICT management. This blog is written by the presidential and management teams.
Socitm's Blogs
Socitm blog
Most Recent Posts
- Socitm's year ahead
- Three months as Socitm president
- Professionalisation KPIs
- Our response to the Operational Efficiency Programme
- Council of the future
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Amrit Williams
Amrit Williams
Amrit Williams is chief technology officer of Big Data company Quantivo. His previous job CTO at security comany BigFish and has been research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, where he covered audit and compliance, vulnerability and threat management, network security and secure application development.
Amrit Williams's Blogs
Beyond the perimeter
Most Recent Posts
- Searching for privacy in a world without secrets
- Class-action lawsuit against HP for not disclosing vulnerabilities has huge implications
- Incomplete thought: Are you really data-driven or just using data to prove a point?
- Big data: Are you creating a garbage dump or mountains of gold
- The good, bad and ugly of technology acquisitions
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Arcsight
Arcsight
Cyber crime trends, data privacy, insider threats, and other information security issues, and what they mean for the enterprise, brought to you by ArcSight
Most Recent Posts
- Security threats to watch have become real
- Building national and international cyber security frameworks
- The top 5 security threats to watch
- Time to tear down cyber walls
- A suitable response to cybersecurity
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Dharmesh Mistry
Dharmesh Mistry
Dharmesh Mistry has supported financial services organisations with technology and management expertise for over 20 years. Dharmesh is CTO of edge IPK focusing on developing and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Dharmesh Mistry's Blogs
Facing up to IT
Most Recent Posts
- Future of Mobile part 3
- Click, touch, wave and talk: UI of the future
- Is Apple Siri-ous about Voice?
- A dirty IT architecture may not be such a bad thing
- Is the dream of re-use outdated?
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Andrew Katz
Andrew Katz
Andrew Katz is partner and head of the IT/IP team at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique law firm based in the Thames Valley providing corporate and commercial advice to knowledge-based industries. Andrew qualified as a barrister and requalified (and now practises) as a solicitor. He financed his way through bar school by jobbing as a (fairly incompetent) programmer (in turbo pascal). He now specialises in free and open source software law and has written and lectured widely. He is a founder editor of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, a fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe and advises businesses and communities on free and open source licensing and strategy worldwide. He is slightly obsessive about live music. These are his opinions, and not those of his firm.
Andrew Katz's Blogs
Commons Law
Most Recent Posts
- Open source: The evildoer's choice
- Open source hardware: Announcing a new licence
- The road to copyright court is paved with good intentions
- Copyright case spells trouble for developers
- Helpful judgment from the Advocate General
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Jericho Forum
Jericho Forum
The Jericho Forum is an international group of organisations working together to define and promote the solutions surrounding the issue of de-perimeterisation. Members include top IT security officers from multi-national Fortune 500s & entrepreneurial user companies, major security vendors, government, & academics. Working together, members drive approaches and standards for a secure, collaborative online business world.
Jericho Forum's Blogs
Another Brick from the Wall - Leadership thoughts
Most Recent Posts
- The world after user names and passwords
- I am not a number
- The future of online identity lies with the cloud
- There goes another 25 million Sony customer records
- Does the ICO have false teeth?
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Tony Collins
Tony Collins
Tony Collins is an investigative and campaigning journalist and former Executive Editor at Computer Weekly. With his friend and colleague David Bicknell he wrote "Crash", which found common factors in the world's largest public and private sector IT-related failures. He wrote "Open Verdict", a book on the strange deaths of defence scientists. He writes, and gives talks, on the tensions and disputes between suppliers and users.
Tony Collins's Blogs
The Tony Collins Blog
Tony Collins is an investigative journalist, author and blogger. Until April 2010 he was Executive Editor of Computer Weekly. He is the holder of 26 awards for journalism and has reported since the 1980s on what can be learned from failed projects. Several Parliamentary committees have questioned him and quoted him in their reports.
Most Recent Posts
- Hospital staff report "clinical incidents" after Cerner NPfIT go-live
- Lessons from IT-related project failures - Logica's CE
- CSC to cut £1bn from its NHS contracts? Not yet ...
- Whitehall asks IT company about "tea at The Ritz" offer to GPs
- DWP justifies £316m HP contract in era of small deals
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Apache Blogger
Apache Blogger
Insight from members of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Apache powers half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhances the lives of countless users and developers. Established in 1999 to shepherd, develop, and incubate Open Source innovations "The Apache Way", the ASF oversees 150+ projects led by a volunteer community of over 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers across six continents. Notable Apache projects include Hadoop, Lucene/Solr, OpenOffice.org, Tomcat, and the flagship Apache HTTP Server, which powers more than 326 million Websites across the globe. From enterprise Open Source adoption, industry trends, emerging innovations, and developer and community management issues, the opinions expressed in this blog are those of the individual authors and do not represent the official position of the ASF.
Apache Blogger's Blogs
Apache Asserts
Most Recent Posts
- Apache OpenOffice: Can I depend on software built by volunteers?
- Is OpenOffice.org an Apache project yet?
- Worrying about the security of open source?
- Be lazy, be fast
- Apache: lean and mean, durable, fun
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Alec Muffett
Alec Muffett
Alec Muffett is a veteran security geek who believes strongly in common sense, full disclosure, defence in depth, privacy, integrity, simplicity and open source. He is an independent consultant, writer, and speaker specialising in security education.
Alec Muffett's Blogs
Unscrewing Security
Most Recent Posts
- Cybersecurity: Demand An Evidence-Based Approach
- Still Scrambling For Safety
- Surveillance? The Liberal Democrats aren't supporting it...
- Learning about Cybersecurity from an Unnatural World
- Digital Darwinism: Perspectives for Industry and Government
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Martin Mutch
Martin Mutch
Oracle veteran Martin Mutch digs through the parade of acquisitions, competition and media frenzy which surrounds the software supplier and gives his take on what it means for end user organisations. Immersed in Oracle customers’ day-to-day concerns, Martin and Rocela the consultancy he co-founded help the world’s biggest brands get the most out of their Oracle investments, optimise their usage and ensure compliance.
Martin Mutch's Blogs
The Oracle Oracle
Most Recent Posts
- The UK Cabinet Office finally cuts a deal with Oracle
- Will Oracle meet Q3 expectations?
- Is Oracle falling from grace?
- Oracle FY12 Q2 earnings call preview...
- Oracle Fusion - The emerging truth, part II
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Test Driven
Test Driven
Most Recent Posts
- Defining risk - ISO 31 000 doesn't make it any clearer
- The importance of independence
- Risky business
- Software testing faces growing skills gap
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Implementation Diary
Implementation Diary
Paul Hardy is the Head of Service & Support at Informa plc. In his role Paul is responsible for Informa’s technical services, IT support, supplier management and service delivery. Most recently he has undertaken the project manager role for Informa’s move to an IT Service Management platform, encompassing ITILv3.
Implementation Diary's Blogs
Implementation Diary
Enterprise IT projects are tough, and this diary records the highs and lows of rolling out business critical systems.
Most Recent Posts
- It's hassle my vendor time
- It's manic, we've closed 6,895 tickets
- Keeping our stakeholders involved
- We are live
- No more changes until we press the button
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Management Briefing
Management Briefing
Practical advice for IT managers on everything from project management, technology selection, governance, risk and compliance to team building and HR, from ComputerworldUK.com's experts.
Management Briefing's Blogs
Management Briefing
IT management experts share their knowledge and experience
Most Recent Posts
- The role of information in the modern enterprise architecture programme
- Getting to grips with corporate social networking (CSN)
- How to use Software Assurance and good data to save money in new SQL Server 2012 licences
- Migrations to Windows 7 and 8, virtualisation and beyond
- Enterprise architecture: Challenging the top 3 misconceptions
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Security spotlight
Security Spotlight
Security Spotlight's Blogs
Security Spotlight
Shining a light on the security and governance issues facing enterprise IT
Most Recent Posts
- Why 2012 is the year of Public Key Infrastructure
- Alan Turing notes on cryptography released
- BYOD - It's time to throw out the rule book
- Security hardening iPhones and iPads
- Preventing email data losses - don't boil the ocean
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IDC analysts
IDC analysts
IDC analysts's Blogs
IDC Insight
Most Recent Posts
- Microsoft Hosting Summit 2012: Taking Hosting Partners Seriously
- Biometrics and cloud federation - is this a trend?
- Getting ready for third generation infrastructures: the UK PSN
- SAP supply chain summit: Are customers ready for the cloud?
- RSA Conference 2012: Emerging security operations, compliance and risk management concerns
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UST Global
UST Global
UST Global and Marussia Virgin Racing engineers' unique perspective on the technical battle to bring one of Formula One's newest racing teams to the grid. This blog will take you behind the scenes of each race during the 2011 season, highlighting the technical demands made by MVR's drivers, designers and pit crew and the response of their IT services partner, UST Global.
UST Global's Blogs
Pit lane power
Most Recent Posts
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Disruptive technologies
Disruptive technologies
Disruptive technologies's Blogs
Disruptive technologies
Most Recent Posts
- Mobile enterprise business errors (unintended) #3
- Mobile enterprise business errors (unintended) #2
- Three simple software maintenance strategies that can save you millions
- Mobile enterprise business errors (unintended) #1
- Beyond the three Vs of big data - viscosity and virality
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Cloud Vision
Cloud Vision
Cloud Vision's Blogs
Cloud vision
Most Recent Posts
- Cloud computing and EU data protection law: Part Two
- What exactly is MFT in the cloud?
- Using log management to unlock private cloud security
- Mapping security in the private cloud
- The private cloud security problem
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Richi Jennings
Richi Jennings
Every day, Richi Jennings pricks the self-important bubbles of people who think technology is life's be-all and end-all. In On The Other Hand, he also brings us useful insights and loads of laughs from around the Web.
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OTOH: On the other hand
Every day, Richi Jennings pricks the self-important balloon surrounding people who think technology is life's be-all and end-all. In On The Other Hand, he also teases out useful insights and loads of laughs from around the Web.
Most Recent Posts
- GSM now wide open to eavesdropping and tracking
- Stop 3-strikes shenanigans, say Irish data protectors
- Nokia Lumia 900 Ace release date rumour: February
- BT grows plans for 'super-fast' fibre broadband
- Windows 8 beta download release date, app store
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John Riley
John Riley
Dr John Riley is passionate about improving the innovation process, having first hand experience of large enterprises, small business, academia, and government. As Managing Editor of Computer Weekly (1992-2008) he championed true business value from IT and founded the CW500 Club for IT Directors. He was until recently Strategic Advisor to Erudine, an early adopter of agile technology, campaigning for the wider UK SME community. He was a founder of the UK Innovation Initiative and is active across the IT community.
John Riley's Blogs
Innovation Deployment
This blog highlights examples of how innovators have successfully overcome the many generic barriers to innovation deployment in large enterprises and government.
Most Recent Posts
- The Realities of Government IT for Innovators
- The Killer Barrier of Communication
- "Big is Beautiful" Barrier
- Computer games psychology broadens mindsets
- Securenvoy's Recipe for Success
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James Firth
James Firth
James is CEO of the Open Digital Policy Organisation which he co-founded to promote the importance of data ethics and open networks for a sustainable digital economy. Policy areas of particular interest include privacy, cyber security, fair market competition, internet governance and free speech. He's a recognised innovator with an accomplished software career designing radar and secure comms for military and government use, before launching a company developing budget and finance analytics.
Most Recent Posts
- We need a digital policing strategy before we talk about surveillance and safeguards
- Transparency DCMS style
- Why the end of Consumer Focus is a blow to UK tech policy
- Where did I come from?
