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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
- Blackberry 10 - it's the enterprise stupid...
- Another government, another NHS IT programme?
- HP's Autonomy fraud allegations. Get real...
- IT and breast implants
- Oracle calls Autonomy's Mike Lynch a liar or an amnesiac
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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
- Observations on the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
- OpenStack Summit Report
- IT Service Management benchmarks - for you, by you
- Collected insights on Microsoft's Q3 performance
- How do S&R; pros keep up with disruption?
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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
- Despite negative attention, outsourcing works
- NAO: Twenty five years of outsourcing
- Recognising excellence in outsourcing through the NOA Awards
- Innovation and transformation: do it for the right reasons
- Offshoring - SMEs not feeling the full benefit
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Accenture
Accenture
Analysis, insight and opinion from consultants at Accenture, one of the world's leading systems integrators
Accenture's Blogs
SI and tech insights
Most Recent Posts
- Active Defence: Adapting cyber defences to the threat
- Sustainability reporting: Going beyond a box ticking exercise
- How data architects can improve patient services
- Energy industry: Who will win in the cloud?
- The art of analytics
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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
- Please Write to MEPs *Now* about TAFTA/TTIP
- Please Write to Your MPs About Snooper's Charter
- Clinical Trials Must be Open Data: Please Contact MEPs
- Software Patents Storming Up the Agenda Again
- Why CISPA Shows We Need Strong EU Data Protection
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Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps
Most Recent Posts
- Hosting Companies Shouldn't Be Parasites
- Read Any Law Journals Lately?
- Python Settles Trademark Dispute
- Leveson Regulation To Impact Social Media?
- Copyright: A Modest Proposal
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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
- Could Maggie have stopped Microsoft?
- Strike and Skype will take your job
- Education, 3D printing and all that
- When BYOD went to college
- Computer Science in schools (postponed again)
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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
- Developers in short supply?
- What's Microsoft On(x)?
- The vertical UXP
- The end of silo architectures
- Programming with soldering irons
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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 Law
- 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
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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
- HMRC's IT spend reached a record in 2011/12
- IBM in dispute with South West One partners
- Will CSC negotiate a new NPfIT deal?
- Should this Trust be planning an IT switch to Cerner now?
- US hospital takes legal action against Cerner - why it matters to the NHS
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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
- Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure?
- Why is nobody crowing about 'Critical National Infrastructure'?
- If it turns out that LinkedIn passwords have leaked...
- Chinese Cyberwarriors in your Chips?
- Ask Alec: Security for Freelance Developers and SMEs
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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
- Can Sun still shine for Oracle?
- Oracle on its knees?
- Oracle rushes out its good news, but can scarcely conceal its concerns
- Oracle in the wars?
- The UK Cabinet Office finally cuts a deal with Oracle
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Test Driven
Test Driven
Most Recent Posts
- What to expect of your test managers
- In search of excellence: Ten reasons why your IT organisation needs a Test Centre
- Preventing the nightmare scenario: Software quality for IT projects
- Software quality is a C-Level responsibility
- Defining risk - ISO 31 000 doesn't make it any clearer
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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
- Gartner: CRM should be about earning customers for life
- Outsourcing: Beyond cheap labour
- Data centres: Taking control of TCO
- Mobile: Cost reduction or business transformation?
- Big Data's reluctant forty percent
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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 the UK shouldn't fear a Cyber Pearl Harbour
- The architects of our own destruction
- The world's first cyberwar has started
- Five common practices that lead to failed IT compliance audits and security breaches
- Twitter, stress and confusion will define the security landscape in 2013
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IDC analysts
IDC analysts
IDC analysts's Blogs
IDC Insight
Most Recent Posts
- Hurry up Symantec
- OpenStack Summit: Day one round up
- How to become a smarter buyer of cloud services
- Is the Semantic Web and linked data ready for primetime?
- Impact of the SQL-Hadoop marriage on infrastructure
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Disruptive technologies
Disruptive technologies
Disruptive technologies's Blogs
Disruptive technologies
Most Recent Posts
- Cloud Bill of Rights for SaaS apps
- Seven priorities in the shift from CMO to Chief Digital Officer
- Analysis: New SAP customers face maintenance hike
- News analysis: SAP Business Suite on HANA
- Oracle Fusion Applications Update - The Inside Story
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Cloud Vision
Cloud Vision
Cloud Vision's Blogs
Cloud vision
Most Recent Posts
- Looking for results? Look at the Cloud
- The ties that bind: How strong is the glue that holds your cloud together?
- Performance: The Cloud's Achilles Heel?
- US PATRIOT Act - Can UK cloud customers use US cloud providers?
- Cloud computing and EU data protection law: Part Two
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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.
Richi Jennings's Blogs
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
Internet of Things
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
- Adopting IPv6 is a Corporate Business Issue
- User Data Ownership & Strong Security Demanded for Smart Home Metering
- Open Mindsets Link 3D Printing & Internet of Things
- Breaking down the Internet of Silos
- Compulsory Chip Implants in Dogs: the Internet of Things Dimension
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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
- What the Letzgo Hunting vigilantes can teach the Home Office
- Keith Vaz is wrong, the O'Dwyer case is not at all like Gary McKinnon's
- The Huawei risk should be managable
- Chancellor's Shares for Employee Rights Swap is not as mad as it sounds...
- The big 4G win for UK Ltd
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Bill McCluggage
Bill McCluggage
Bill is Chief Technologist - Public Sector for EMC UK &Ireland.; He joined EMC in February 2012 following 12 years in CIO roles in both the public and private sector. He is passionate about the role IT plays in our daily lives and how it can transform public services delivered to customers and citizens, especially in areas such as Cloud, Cyber and Big Data. He has a fascinating CV and has a BSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, an MSc in Aerosystems Engineering and is a visiting Professor at the University of Ulster’s Business School at their Magee Campus.
Bill McCluggage's Blogs
Outside In
A new lens on public sector IT
Most Recent Posts
- Does Government need a transformed technology stack for its brave new digital world?
- A Cyber Christmas Carol - with apologies to Charles Dickens
- Big data -an untapped opportunity for UK Government
- James Bond, cybersecurity and sloth
- Carpe Diem - could it benefit Government IT?
