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  • Google's enterprise strategy

    Google's global vice-president of enterprise, Amit Singh, sat down with CIO Australia to talk strategy, products and the changing nature of the CIO role

    Written by Georgina Swan • 17 Jan. 12 14:33

  • SBS looks to Cloud services

    When Klaus Schelp started at SBS at the beginning of this year he focused on business outcomes ahead of technology operations. As the head of information technology at the national broadcaster, Schelp was met with increasing business demands for online collaboration without the on-premise infrastructure to support it. A journey to Cloud services looked increasingly compelling.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 16 Sept. 11 08:49

  • Cloud computing and governance in the digital age - Part 3

    During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud computing and governance in the digital age. The panelincluded former US federal government chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, and Burberry chief executive officer, Angela Ahrendts.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 07 Sept. 11 12:14

  • Cloud computing and governance in the digital age - Part 2

    During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud computing and governance in the digital age. The panel was made up the former US federal government chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, and Burberry chief executive officer, Angela Ahrendts. The four leaders discussed various issues during the course of the wide ranging conversation, including best practice for Cloud computing by governments and the importance of human rights.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 06 Sept. 11 16:21

  • The dangers of 'groupthink'

    Nigel Cameron has a question. Several questions actually. As the chief executive officer of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET), Washington DC’s independent think tank on science and technology policy, his role is to ask questions to which nobody yet has the answers.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 12 Aug. 11 14:39

  • Amplify innovation for business change

    AMP will hold its annual Amplify innovation event this week and IT leaders will exchange crowdsourced ideas with the rank and file. CIO, Lee Barnett, spoke with CIO about how IT and business can benefit from all variety of industries.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 06 June 11 15:30

  • 10 questions for Opera Solutions CFO Rob Bothe

    Interview with Opera Solutions CFO Rob Bothe about management and recruiting.

    Written by Nancy Weil • 19 Jan. 11 05:55

  • Mobile benefits outweigh the risks: Westpac CTO

    The new paradigm of mobile banking carries with it inherent risks, but there’s no reason for consumers to be less confident about the security of their data if the right safeguards are in place, says the chief technology officer (CTO) of Westpac bank.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 28 Dec. 10 09:00

  • Q&A: IT developer at Shoes of Prey

    Working as the IT developer for online retail website Shoes of Prey, Mike Knapp knows IT and selling shoes generally don't go hand in hand. However, the former Google employee and co-developer of the Google Reader application tells CIO how he was able to develop the startup's e-commerce platform in just six months.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 14 July 10 12:23

  • Google VP Mayer describes the perfect search engine

    Last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during the company's earnings call that Google had implemented about 120 search quality improvements during the third quarter as it moves toward its ultimate goal: "We want to get to the perfect search engine."

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 11 Nov. 09 08:44
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    Q&A: Dave Morin, Facebook Senior Platform Manager, on Facebook Connect and the Future

    Dave Morin, senior platform manager at Facebook, has to manage many of the moving parts of the Facebook ecosystem. The decisions he and his team make affect all the developers, marketers and advertisers who have staked the future of their business on building applications and products on top of the platform.

    Written by C.G. Lynch • 18 Feb. 09 09:43

  • Ballmer On The Cloud, Google, Data Centers, Apple

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered the keynote speech at his company's London conference "Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing Tomorrow's Strategies Today".

    Written by Martin Veitch • 03 Oct. 08 14:22

  • Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

    Microsoft has been busy this year, rolling out Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in a push to expand its presence in the corporate data center. To be successful, the company must overcome an economic environment that appears increasingly difficult as well as tough competition from rivals Oracle and VMware, among others

    Written by Sumner Lemon • 25 Sept. 08 09:44

  • How Businesses Can Get More from Social Networking

    For all the talk of businesses embracing Web 2.0 and social software tools, most companies are still at the very early stages of adoption, says Jonathan Yarmis, an analyst at AMR Research who focuses on emerging technologies. In his latest research note on companies taking their first step into social media, he says that companies must avoid the "Kumbaya Zone" - the place where social media is ultimately a time-waster and has little business value.

    Written by C.G. Lynch • 19 Sept. 08 11:12

  • At 10, Google reiterates commitment to CIOs

    Google, which celebrates 10 years of its incorporation this month, remains strongly committed to its Enterprise unit and to the customers it serves, including IT and business managers and CIOs, although most of the company's revenue comes from online advertising.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 08 Sept. 08 08:36

  • Facebook Tech Infrastructure Needs Constant Care

    Started in a dorm room four years ago, the social networking site Facebook now claims to be the fourth most-trafficked site in the world. Ninety million active users pound on 10,000 servers every day, uploading millions and millions of pieces of information in a given month. For example, "friends," who socialize in 21 languages, add 500 million photos per month.

    Written by Kim S. Nash • 02 Sept. 08 13:35

  • Expert: Gmail outages shouldn't turn you off SaaS

    Earlier this month, Gmail, the popular e-mail service provided by Google, experienced a service outage that left some users without their e-mail for 24 hours. Some of the users who were affected Aug. 15 included customers of Google Apps, Google's software as a service (SaaS) suite that includes Gmail, calendar, documents & spreadsheets, instant messaging and wikis.

    Written by C.G. Lynch • 29 Aug. 08 14:50
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