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Lessons Learned -- Fixing Email Failures Propel IT Director Into Strategic Role
White Papers Faced with back-to-back email server crashes in remote office locations, an IT Director had to make a strategic business decision. Read this informative article that recently appeared in Iron Mountain's Digital Authority eZine and gain insight on...
[November 26, 2007, 23:00]
NHS IT Initiative On Track, According To Director
News Director general of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, Richard Granger, was speaking at the Improvement and Development Agency e-champions conference in London on 28 September 2004. His aim is a "digital health service that is fit for the...
[September 30, 2004, 15:30]
IT Director’s Reference Series: Managing Security Audits
White Papers The IT infrastructure is a corporation's most valuable asset, delivering competitive advantages, processing the bulk of business transactions, and storing confidential information on all areas of the company, including financial data, customer and...
[September 12, 2005, 0:00]
Compliance And Cash To Dominate 2005
News IT director priorities for 2005 will be dominated by compliance regulations and the need to demonstrate real value in a continuing environment of cost restraint, according to analysts' predictions. Tim Jennings, research director at Butler Group...
[November 19, 2004, 16:30]
News Burst: E-envoy To Be Appointed This Week
News The government will this week appoint Andrew Pinder, a former director of IT at the Inland Revenue, as e-envoy, according to reports Wednesday. Pinder has won praise for his successful implementation of the PAYE system at the Inland Revenue, and...
[January 31, 2001, 8:31]
Retired House Of Fraser IT Boss Won't Be Replaced
News The IT director of the department store chain House of Fraser has retired, and the retailer has confirmed it currently has no plans to appoint anyone else to that role. Frank Berridge, the retailer's IT director, has left to begin his retirement...
[August 2, 2007, 13:49]
Queen Seeks Royal IT Chief
News Buckingham Palace is hunting for an IT director to look after the Queen's computer systems across the Royal Household. The post offers a salary of £70,000 to £80,000 per year, and the new director of IT and telecommunications will be responsible...
[October 19, 2006, 10:05]
DoH: Granger Has Stepped Down From NHS
News The Department of Health has confirmed that Richard Granger has left his post as director general of the NHS National Programme for IT. The second is a director of IT programme and system delivery, who will focus on managing NHS Connecting for...
[February 8, 2008, 8:10]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback To Blackhawk25, Foolish IT Director. Dont dare to stand in front of them saying yourself as an IT Director, they can kill you in technology knwoledge. In india the support is provided by ENGINEERS who have done 4 years or more study in Electronics...
[January 7, 2006, 11:16]
NHS Top IT Job To Be Split In Two
News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post — filled by Richard Granger until January this year. The Department of Health advertised for a chief...
[April 29, 2008, 8:34]
Blade Desktops Make Bankers Cool
News The IT director responsible for one of London's main trading floors claims to have conquered the problem of overheating caused by hundreds of workstation PCs in close proximity. Speaking at a launch to promotes HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation...
[December 1, 2006, 14:28]
Tesco CIO Resigns
News Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the IT implementation behind Tesco's first US stores, which opened in Los Angeles this month. In 1990 he became IT director at Rumbelows and then joined the Kingfisher...
[November 15, 2007, 8:54]
Confusion Surrounds Granger's NHS Departure
News Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS's £12.4bn flagship IT programme, and the timetable for the departure of director-general Richard Granger. The prospects for the IT director-general's role will not become clear until a...
[January 16, 2008, 11:19]
Schools 'need Gender-specific Software'
News The managing director of IT security company GFI, Richard Rundle, believes "the significant differences between the way boys and girls use and think about computers means that we should be producing 'gender-specific' software.
[May 6, 2004, 10:50]
Linux Systems Management Using Aduva Director
White Papers This paper provides an overview of Aduva Director and how it can be used to simplify management tasks. It looks at how Aduva Director can be used to manage Linux images running on z/Series under z/VM.
[September 30, 2004, 0:00]
Email Trails Lead To DRM
Talkback This is not just an issue for HR and IT; it is a Director-level issue. Breach of copyright involves personal director liability as well as corporate liability - it is exactly the same law as if the company is using unlicensed software.
[April 22, 2004, 15:22]
MPs Savage NHS IT Delays
News NHS CEO Sir Ian Carruthers and NHS director general of IT Richard Granger were grilled on the Connecting for Health programme by MPs during a heated Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting at the House of Commons this week.
[June 28, 2006, 17:10]
Concerns Grow Over IPv6 Migration
News European businesses are being held back from migrating to IP version 6 due to the way IP addresses are being allocated, according to the director of IT at the UK internet registrar, Nominet. Nominet's IT director Jay Daley indicated that, unlike...
[June 15, 2007, 13:52]
Hiring Isn't A 2003 CIO Resolution
News Lisa Verde, director of recruiting for Matrix Resources, which offers IT recruiting services in a half dozen markets in the southeastern US plus Arizona and New Jersey, said contracting on a per-project basis and contract-to-permanent hiring are...
[January 6, 2003, 12:22]
RFID Keeps Virgin Planes In The Air
News Gareth Lewis, IT services director at Virgin Group, said on Monday that RFID was helping Virgin Atlantic to keep its planes in the air longer. But, as technology director Ken Douglas revealed, the company did have its doubts about deploying RFID...
[February 21, 2006, 10:00]
