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Management & Skills

When IT meets marketing

If IT wants a say in how the marketing department’s growing technology budget is spent, it must take the time to understand its needs 

Management & Skills

The rise of the chief digital officer

A new executive role with responsibilty for the web is becoming increasingly popular

Comms & Networking

Are the days of credit cards numbered?

Mobile payment technologies are in development that could replace not only cash but plastic cards too

Information Management

Putting the R in analytics

Open source statistical programming language R, already popular among academics, is making in-roads to the enterprise

Comms & Networking

Skype calls on the community for customer support

Internet telephony company taps its online community to provide customer support and product feedback

Security & Continuity

Rabobank International simplifies the burden of SOx

How the global arm of the Dutch financial services giant is cutting the adminstrational burden of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance with identity and access governance

Security & Continuity

Encrypting Debenhams

How the department store retailer slashed the potential cost of PCI DSS with tokenisation

Information Management

Atkins buys TomTom data to plan road improvements

Global engineering company is to use traffic data collected from TomTom satnav devices in order to analyse traffic performance

Comms & Networking

Brocade claims headstart in Ethernet fabric "goldrush"

CEO Michael Klayko says that Ethernet networking technology for the virtual era is an opportunity ripe for the plucking

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Fusion-io promises to end the mainframe era of storage

Flash memory server device maker says decoupling storage performance from storage capacity with end the era of proprietary systems

IT Services

NTT Data differentiates through differentiation

Japanese IT services company believes the market for systems that differentiate, not automate, still has the potential to grow

Organisational change is most common CIO priority

Hactivists stole more data than cyber criminals last year, says Verizon

Western European IT spending is still in recession

Apple is life sciences industry's second favourite IT vendor

SaaS will be $14.5bn market this year – Gartner