Tagged: CIOs & News
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75pc of Irish organisations have adopted cloud, claims PwC News
12.04.2012 Three quarters of Ireland’s CIOs and IT directors have already adopted a cloud computing strategy, a survey of Irish CIOs and IT directors by PricewaterhouseCoopers claims. -
Many boards still don't address security risks - survey News
29.02.2012 Cyber risk still isn’t getting sufficient attention from top executives and company boards, according to new preliminary research from RSA. -
European CIOs cautious about IT spending for 2012 News
23.01.2012 Fewer organisations across Europe plan to raise their IT spend and on average are drawing up cautious budgets for IT hardware, software and services spend in 2012, new analysis...Categories: Business Software, CIO, Data Management, Global CIO, Hardware, Investments, IT Management, IT Organisation, Security, Servers, Software, Virtualisation -
‘Cloud’ is priority of UK and Irish CIOs going into 2012 News
15.12.2011 Cloud computing is the priority of UK and Irish CIOs, according to Cisco’s latest TechWatch 2012 report. Almost half of IT budgets are spent maintaining existing assets and... -
CIOs need to break with the past; choose security over hardware News
07.12.2011 CIOs crave order, not chaos, and while trends like the consumerisation of IT appear to present both challenge and opportunity, CIOs have bigger fish to fry in terms of strategy... -
Rise of cloud computing has complicated the security landscape News
04.11.2011 Nearly half of 10,000 business leaders surveyed globally believe that the onset of cloud technologies have improved security. However, nearly a quarter believe it has increased... -
Now here’s an opportunity to make the cloud a reality News
04.07.2011 After last week’s establishment of a high-level steering group to drive cloud computing in the Irish Government, every opportunity should be pursued to get the wheels in motion.... -
Zen and the art of innovation to drive business success News
15.06.2011 In a world where Facebook and Twitter have been used to organise pro-democracy uprisings against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and in which China will re-emerge as the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Sustainability, R&D, Mobility, Enterprise, Engineering, Energy, Education, Economy, CIO, Business IntelligenceTags: Microsoft, Harvey Nash, Accenture, Google, Apple, Anonymous, PayPal, MasterCard, Twitter, Facebook, Analytics, Business , CIOs, Innovation -
Workers have better technology at home than in office News
05.05.2011 The consumerisation of IT is shaping the CIO agenda in more ways than management realise and often workers today have better computers and connectivity at home than in the... -
CIOs divided on the consumerisation of IT News
03.06.2011 With the pace of technological change accelerating and platforms like cloud computing and tablet devices entering the workplace, CIOs are divided on whether these are challenges... -
Concern over fragmented ICT qualifications across Europe News
01.06.2011 Senior ICT professionals in Europe are worried that growing trends in the mobility of ICT practitioners among member states are hampered by a lack of transparency of ICT...Categories: IT Organisation, IT Management, Infrastructure Management, Global CIO, Data Management, CIO -
All smartphones and tablets in danger of leaking data News
18.05.2011 Following the revelation that 99pc of Android smartphone devices have a vulnerability that opens them up to potential attack by hackers, a security expert has warned that all... -
Security and networking skills in greatest demand - CIO survey News
29.04.2011 A survey of 1,400 chief information officers (CIOs) from companies across the US with 100 or more employees has revealed that 54pc are finding it very or somewhat challenging to... -
Gartner urges CIOs to embrace tablet opportunity News
06.04.2011 Industry analyst Gartner has urged CIOs not to make the same mistake with tablet computers that they did with smartphones, which were initially written off as expensive,...Categories: Wireless Communications, Mobility, Mobile, IT Management, Investments, Hardware, CIO, Apps -
EU tasks IVI with boosting CIO and IT professionalism News
13.01.2011 As Europe gets ready to spend €600bn on ICT in 2011, the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at NUI Maynooth has been given a ground-breaking role by the European Union to drive... -
INTERVIEW: From CIO to salesman News
14.12.2010 Colm Murphy, of Dynamic Leadership Development, talks about why a CIO’s role must be about selling the value of IT to senior management. -
Cloud computing has a bright future in Europe News
08.06.2010 The majority – 85pc – of Europe-headquartered public cloud computing providers are expecting their business to expand this year. However, to keep pace, cloud providers need to... -
IT debt costing businesses billions News
24.09.2010 Global IT debt could reach $500bn (around €373bn) this year, with the potential to reach $1trn (around €746bn) by 2015, recent research conducted by IT specialists Gartner Inc.... -
IBM acquires analytics firm Netezza for US$1.7bn News
20.09.2010 IBM has vowed to bring analytics to the masses and has acquired Netazza, a company that helps businesses analyse data, for US$1.7bn in cash. This brings to US$12bn the amount... -
Cloud computing 'two years from mainstream' - Citrix News
09.08.2010 Moving to virtualisation technology will ultimately help cloud computing to become more established, but one vendor believes the cloud won’t reach a tipping point in the Irish...Categories: IT Management, Investments, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise, Data Centre, Cloud, CIO