Interviews

Interview: Rob Fraser Sainsbury's CIO and BCS/Computing CIO of the Year 2011

Rob Fraser is CIO at Sainsbury's
By driving harder bargains with its technology suppliers and reducing costs through virtualisation, Sainsbury’s has been able to boost IT investment and deliver better deals for its customers
10 Jan 2012

Interview: Rob Joyce, head of LTE, O2

O2's Rob Joyce
O2’s 4G guru talks to Computing about the future of mobile wireless in the UK, high bandwidth applications, and where 4G fits in alongside 3G and Wi-Fi coverage
10 Jan 2012

Interview: James Thomas, IT director, University College London Hospital

UCLH's James Thomas
With UCLH implementing one of the first large-scale fixed mobile convergence projects in the UK, James Thomas talks Computing through the process
16 Dec 2011

Interview: Andy Dancer, Trend Micro CTO

As the veteran of four start-ups, Trend Micro’s Andy Dancer believes the role of the CTO is changing
29 Nov 2011

Interview: Matt Peers, CIO, Deloitte

Deloitte’s newly appointed CIO talks about his plan to support “a wave of consumerisation” at the accountancy giant, and explains his reservations about the cloud
16 Nov 2011

Interview: Alex Pilar, CIO, DHL Supply Chain

Datacentre consolidation, virtualisation and consumerisation are all part and parcel of DHL Supply Chain’s transition to a private cloud infrastructure
02 Nov 2011

Interview: Simon Hill, IT director, Viridor

Delivering optimised IT services to a large number of small sites stuck in the middle of nowhere is a constant challenge for a growing waste management and recycling company
24 Oct 2011

Interview: Hertfordshire County Council head of technology Dave Mansfield

With services firm Serco taking care of most of the day-to-day IT work at Hertfordshire council, Dave Mansfield and his small team are free to focus on long-term solutions
04 Oct 2011

Interview: Richard Lloyd-Williams, Net-a-Porter.com

The cloud may be all the rage in some quarters, but at online luxury fashion retailer Net-a-Porter in-house technology and development are still in vogue
20 Sep 2011

Interview: Corporate IT Forum chairman John Harris

Corporate IT Forum chairman John Harris explains how the group is enabling today’s CIOs to mentor new entrants to the sector and set the corporate technology agenda for tomorrow
07 Sep 2011

Interview: Asda CIO Cheryl Millington

CIO Cheryl Millington talks about how she is restructuring and expanding her department in an effort to bring the IT function closer to the business
24 Aug 2011

Interview: BAE Systems head of strategy and architecture, Malcolm Carrie

Serving the IT needs of a large and expanding ‘federated’ user base that handles highly classified data can sometimes mean going against industry orthodoxies
03 Aug 2011

Interview: Kaspersky Lab CTO Nikolai Grebennikov

Stuart Sumner meets a man who thrives on threats
19 Jul 2011

Interview: Channel 4 CIO Kevin Gallagher

The CIO at Channel 4 says the UK’s rather fusty IT profession needs a Gok Wan-style transformation if it is to attract some much-needed new blood
06 Jul 2011

What are power companies doing to protect their networks from cyber attacks?

Last year’s Stuxnet attack on an Iranian nuclear power facility has alerted electricity suppliers to the security vulnerabilities in their networks
06 Jul 2011

Interview: Mark Laws, A&N Media

A&N Media’s Mark Laws believes collaborative technology such as Yammer can be an invaluable enterprise tool
22 Jun 2011

Interview: McDonald's UK IT director Mark Fabes

Not just home to the golden arches, Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar, McDonald’s restaurants are also increasingly hotbeds of cutting-edge technology
08 Jun 2011

UK IT Industry Awards: Success breeds success at MSM

Luke Lang of MSM Software talks about how success in the UK IT Industry Awards’ Environmental Project of the Year category gave his firm’s profile a major boost
31 May 2011

Interview: Stephen Murdoch, European head of Dell's large enterprise and public sector business

The company promises to recruit heavily and take on more skilled staff in the UK to handle corporate interest in high-end products and services
26 May 2011

IT Leaders interview: Clifford Burroughs, CIO, United Biscuits

United Biscuits' CIO talks about building management skills for cloud computing
18 May 2011

Interview: KPMG CIO Bryan Clark

KPMG’s IT chief explains the roles the cloud and virtualisation are playing in the accounting giant’s IT strategy, and how he is assessing the potential of tablet devices
10 May 2011

Exclusive: De Vere Group IT director Jo Stanford on moving business functions to the cloud

Says shift to the cloud was like "passing on a headache"
22 Apr 2011

Interview: BCS CEO David Clarke

The head of the IT industry’s leading professional body gives his verdict on the coalition’s ICT strategy and explains why he is generally optimistic about the future
20 Apr 2011

Interview: Volkswagen UK systems director Nick Gaines

Volkswagen UK's IT chief explains how important it is for technology leaders to understand business strategy and processes in the modern enterprise
22 Mar 2011