Computing Business - Issue 15

We analyse the importance of copyright techniques and how chief information officers can protect their digital assets.

Written by Mark Samuels

Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Computing Business, the monthly magazine for IT leaders.

Computing Business is designed for senior executives at the forefront of technology-enabled change in UK companies and the public sector.

Chief information officers are increasingly expected to develop the business, technology, leadership and personal skills needed to make an effective contribution to decision-making in the boardroom. Computing Business aims to help its readers take that step.

The magazine brings together an exclusive community of the UK’s 35,000 most senior IT executives to examine the personal, organisational and management issues that affect their ability to inspire IT-enabled change.

You can access the articles from issue 15 below. We welcome your feedback on the new publication, this web site or any of the features from the magazine - email us at feedback@computingbusiness.co.uk or post your thoughts using the reader comment box at the end of this page.

This month's articles include:

Access denied

The same information is often duplicated many times over, held in several databases and accessed through various systems.

Ask the experts

Long gone are the days when chief information officers (CIOs) looked first to invest in enterprise software or security applications.

All-round savings

I have to be honest, says Betfair's Rorie Devine. When people first started talking about green computing at the back end of last year, I was not sure what they meant.

The sky’s the limit

George Henderson, IT director for the new low-cost business airline Silverjet, has a challenge for technology departments around the world.

Under lock and key

In strictly legal terms, YouTube should probably never have got off the ground. Yet it certainly works commercially.

IT chiefs ring the changes

Information technology is becoming a commodity. Vendors increasingly design computing systems as utilities, to be supplied in a similar way to electricity.

New age of outsourcing

Third-party products and services are undergoing an evolution as a result of fundamental changes to technology.

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