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John Leonard is responsible for the setting up and running qualitative and quantitative surveys for Computing Research's clients in order to assess the opinions and experiences of IT professionals on issues important to the industry, such as cloud computing, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and the IT decision making process as a whole.

Articles & blogs by John Leonard

Samsung muscles in on Apple's supply chain

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Could lead to price rises and launch delays
17 May 2013

Research: first steps with big data

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Getting a pilot study up and running requires the support of those who may not understand what big data is all about. John Leonard and Danny Palmer take a look at the issues
15 May 2013

Barnes & Noble shares leap 24 per cent on report that Microsoft to buy Nook tablet and ebook business

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Report comes six days after plans revealed for Nook devices to support Google Play
10 May 2013

Amazon announces global certification scheme for AWS

New qualifications designed to widen appeal of public cloud to enterprise customers
03 May 2013

Case study: Why Sugar proved sweeter than Salesforce for EMIS

Phil Webb, CTO of medical software supplier EMIS, explains how three potential CRM suppliers were reduced to one
01 May 2013

Yahoo chairman resigns

Fred Amoroso is the latest casualty as the web firm struggles to reverse its fortunes
26 Apr 2013

Blackstone Group pulls out of race to buy Dell

Investment group withdraws after poor PC shipment figures and due diligence discussions
19 Apr 2013

Interview: WANdisco CEO David Richards

Richards tells Computing how firms get sucked into the Amazon cloud, and how he plans to replicate entire data centres over the WAN
19 Apr 2013

Research: businesses adapt ERP to tackle diverse demands

Organisations are plugging in secondary systems to increase agility and local control
17 Apr 2013

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust seeks bidders for ICT infrastructure contract

Extendable 60-month ICT infrastructure improvement contract worth between £30m and £50m
15 Apr 2013

Nokia Entertainment: Why we went Mongo

Nokia tells Computing about the pros and cons of NoSQL database MongoDB
11 Apr 2013

Google's Blink moves Chrome browser away from Apple's Safari

New fork of WebKit promises faster development, especially on mobile platforms
05 Apr 2013

China crisis for Apple


26 Mar 2013

Huge rise in big data adoption, finds survey

Comparison of surveys 10 months apart shows increased activity at all stages in project rollout
25 Mar 2013

First 2e2 now Tech Data? Accounting irregularities spell more trouble for the UK channel

Shares plunge in after-hours trading as distributor tells investors not to rely on last three years' accounts
21 Mar 2013