Business Technology

The morning after I posted my column last week, my copy of CIO Magazine was delivered to me via interdepartmental mail. If you have the 15th June 2012 edition www.cio.com/issue/20120615, flip over to page 14 and check out the infographic in the upper-right corner. The title is “Reining in the BYOD Hype,” and the boldfaced [...]

When you’ve spent sufficient time in our industry segment to be recognized by your friends and colleagues as “a tech guy,” you’ll inevitably experience a surreal encounter where someone solicits your opinion on business technology under very odd circumstances. My morning started with one of those events … in a dentist’s chair, of all places. [...]

This issue of Business Technologyasks the questions, how stable is the cloud computing sector? If a major player failed, how would it affect the economy? How would businesses cope and where would they turn for compensation? Ian Cohen, CIO of Jardine Lloyd Thomson, the Accidental CIO, tells Business Technology  how JLT used the cloud and its [...]

Cloud computing has made getting people and planes into to the air easier for easyJet. Paul Bray asks their CIO Trevor Didcock the secret to their success. Get ready for take-off… How does easyJet use cloud computing? We were quite an early adopter of cloud. Our first cloud application was a flight-planning system three or four years [...]

Celebrations for first mother and daughter to both gain a chartered engineer qualification in an industry where only 4 per cent are female Two female family members from Ayrshire in Scotland are believed to be the first ever mother and daughter to both gain a qualification in a profession dominated by male engineers. Suzanne Flynn [...]

Sue Tabbitt looks at how three very different big-name companies are using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to protect their business and drive its growth Social media offers a powerful means for companies to engage with customers. Without a clear strategy, they risk being left behind as everything from marketing to dealing with complaints goes social. [...]

We introduce our new magazine and its first issue exploring the impact cloud computing is having on some of the UK’s leading companies Welcome to the first issue of Business Technology, a new magazine that aims to provide practical, top-level advice for senior management about the use of technology in business. In the coming months, [...]

CIOs need to help CEOs overcome their reservations and find the right cloud technology partner for a serious, long-term relationship Studies suggest that our top ten fears as human beings include flying, speaking in public, spiders, snakes, water and heights. All of these in their own way can give many of us “normal” beings slightly [...]

Platform as a Service can accelerate business and pave the way for software development and deployment Primarily driven by time-to-market pressures, businesses are increasingly turning to Platform as a Service (PaaS) as the most promising tool in today’s technology toolbox. PaaS gives access to hosted services for application development, deployment and management and connects them [...]

Cloud offers many benefits for business, but cash may not come top. We ask four experts in the know