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In this interview Dell CIO, Adriana Karaboutis discusses the challenges of making IT a viable career for young women and the need for greater sponsorship and mentoring programmes.

In this interview Dell CIO, Adriana Karaboutis, explains how summer interns are helping her managers understand what young people really want from IT and social media.

Dell has a world-class supply chain system, but as the company has moved from products to a services and solutions organisation, the IT was not able to cope. In this interview Dell CIO, Adriana Karaboutis, explains how IT at Dell has adapted.

US Xpress has implemented a single data analytics user interface that pools in information from multiple sources. The logists firm collects 900 data elements from tens of thousands of trucking systems— sensor data for tyre and petrol usage, engine operation, geospatial data for fleet tracking, as well as driver feedback from social media sites. All of this data is stream both in real time and collected for historical analysis. Information fed to appropriate online transaction processing systems, Hadoop and data warehouses, In this podcast, Tim Leonard, CTO and vice president at US Xpress, explains how the company processes and analyses Big Data to optimise fleet usage, reduce idle time and fuel consumption and save millions a year as a result.

In this podcast, Oke Okari, general manager and head of mobile at Bloomberg, speaks to Cliff Saran from Computer weekly about the challenges of mobile web and apps development. The Bloomberg news service runs on a diverse range of tablet and smartphone devices. All all its apps and mobile websites are developed in-house.

In this podcast, Valdis Filks, research director at Gartner speaks to Computer Weekly and sister title SearchStorage.techtarget.co.uk about how storage is changing as a result of the take-up of virtualisation, and the impact on IT budgets.

In this podcast, Stephen Glen, software architecture engineer at WorkIT, talks to Cliff Saran, about hosting, cloud computing and how the company is using services from BSO Network Solutions for its price comparison products.

In this podcast recorded at the Business Cloud Summit 2011, US-born academic, and presenter of BBC2's Virtual World, Aleks Krotoski discusses how sites like Facebook and Google build an empirical model of human beings, which influences how people and society interact with their services.

Defence contractor BAe Systems ditched plans to adopt Microsoft Office365, the online version of the Microsoft Suite. Speaking at the Business Cloud Summit 2011, Charles Newhouse, head of strategy and design at BAe Systems said, "We were going to adopt Office365 and the lawyers said we could not do it."

In this podcast recorded at the Gartner Data Centre & Operations Summit 2011, Paul Higgins, Emea data centre leader at GE talks about how the company's data centres have become so strategic, the CEO and shareholders take an interest in them.

Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy says it is no longer feasible to move information into a database: "You need to translate information in real time." Speaking at a packed session titled "The biggest transition in the history of IT" at the Gartner ITxpo in Barcelona, Lynch, said, "Rich media will become commonplace. It is not only about text. Communication by video is just as important as communicating by text."

In this interview from the Gartner ITxpo 2011 in Barcelona, Peter Ayliffe, president and CEO of Visa Europe, discusses why he trusts his CIO, Steve Chambers.

At the Gartner ITxpo 2011 in Barcelona, Gerry Pennell, CIO of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games answers a question from Gartner's Dave Aron about the similarities between outsourcing and the IT team for the Olympics.

In his keynote presentation, Paul Maritz, chief executive office at VMware, said, “One of the ways to categorise computing is the type of application. In the cloud, we are seeing the emergence of a new type of applications, which cannot cannot be done on a traditional RDBMS.” Maritiz describes this new type of application architecture as a computing fabric, built on top of a virtual server environment.

Art Coviello, executive chairman at RSA, explains the reason for moving Tom Heiser into his former role of president and details what his new role will be within EMC and its RSA security division.

In this podcast, Kirk Schell, executive director for Dell's business PC range, speaks to Cliff Saran from ComputerWeekly.com about the changing personality of the business PC and laptop.

More marketing is being done digitally. It is very hard to measure its output and success. "You need tools to take the data and bring it into one place, to satisfy marketing and finance departments," says Brian Franz, CIO, Diageo. In this podcast he speaks about how IT captured the data from 200 million Facebook interactions, which occured during the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange online event.

"The barrier is having a process of who you talk to and what is the service level agrements between the sales organisation and supply organisation. It won't work unless you have the right tools," says Brian Franz, CIO, Diageo speaking at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011.

In this podcast, Brian Franz, CIO at Diageo, explains how he achieves a variable cost structure for IT, using outsourcing and running global business processes.

In this podcast, from the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011, Brian Franz, CIO at Diageo speaks about the company's global IT operating model and how it relates to Diageo customers. "We want to make them happy, repeat customers and feel good about our proiducts and brands relating to tehir lifestyle."

Brian Franz, CIO at global drinks firm, Diageo, presents his top tips on how to become a successful CIO. Franz was speaking at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011, in London.

Prompted by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Nominet, the .uk domain registry, is planning changes to its terms and conditions that will allow it to take down websites without a court order.

Computer Weekly's Warwick Ashford speaks to Brad Arkin, senior director of product security and privacy at Adobe about security in the next generation of Adobe software. Arkin details the changes that have been made to products like Adobe Acrobat and Reader to make them more resilient to hacker attacks.

The internet faces three major crises, which if not solved, will lead to the net stalling as a communications medium and an engine for economic growth, says internet founder and Google’s internet evangelist Vint Cerf.

In this podcast, ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran chats to Bill Jensen and Josh Klein about "Hacking Work - breaking stupid rules for smart results." Bill and Josh discuss how the old ways of doing IT no longer match what staff in the knowledge economy need.

Internet founder Vint Cerf chats to Computer Weekly's Ian Grant about threats to the internet, cyber warfare and other topical issues. (15.32m)

In this podcast recorded at the Gartner Symposium in Cannes, analysts from Gartner quiz Dell chief executive officer, Michael Dell, about the issues facing the PC industry, the challenge from Apple and why he thinks Android is the future.

Darko Hrelic either has the best or worst CIO job in the world. On the one hand, he has the expertise of Gartner on tap, to help develop his IT strategy, but he's also dealing with people who often know a heck of a lot about running IT departments. In this interview ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran finds out how he copes with the IT experts.

In this podcast Don Tapscott, co-author of Macro Wikinomics speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how business and governments must reinvent themselves to survive the recession. Tapscott believes the internet can power a new way of thinking and learning, supporting collective intelligence, citizen regulators and the ability for governments to provide new services, without requiring extra funding.

Michael Chertoff, former US Secretary of Homeland Security, explains how nation states could go about setting and agreeing international conventions on cybersecurity.

RSA president Art Coviello explains how organisations could and should influence regulators to shape better, less onerous regulations.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discuses Microsoft’s position in the cloud marketplace relative to its competitors.

In this podcast interview, Josh Bernoff, co-author of Empowered, speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how IT people must support workers who use Twitter, Facebook and other non-corporate sites to help them do their jobs

BT is going all-out to win the chance to provide Cumbria with high speed broadband, the CEO of Openreach, its regulated infrastructure division, told the Cumbrian broadband conference at the weekend. Here is Murphy’s speech in full. (17.48 minutes)

In this podcast Mark Quirk, Microsoft Internet Exporer 9.0 product manager speaks to Cliff Saran about how Microsoft is increasing "trust" within IE 9.

In this podcast, Mark Quirk, Internet Explorer 9.0 product manager, speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how Microsoft is working towards browser interoperability.

In this interview Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 product manager, Mark Quirk speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how the new browser speeds up graphics rendering, by using DirectX and hardware acceleration on PC's graphics processors.

In this podcast, Christine Connelly, chief information officer for Health, responds to questions about what has actually changed, the future of Connecting for Health and value for money on the £5 billion spent so far.

In this podcast, Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health explains how much freedom Trusts will have to buy what they want, in terms of IT, and the future of the Summary Care Records system.

Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health is quizzed on what the NHS will have to pay BT and CSC.

Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health answers how the revised IT plan for the NHS will affect existing IT suppliers.

In this podcast Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health explains why the management and organisation of the NHS National Programme for IT is being revamped.

Orange has launched what it claims is the biggest advance in voice calls in 20 years. The so-called HD voice, uses noise cancellation technology in an attempt to improve the clarity of a mobile phone conversation, by filtering out background noise.

Google has developed an alternative inbox view, called Priority Inbox for Gmail, which separates important messages by using data such as which people users email the most and which messages they actually open and reply to. The system “learns” users’ priorities over time by analysing how they respond to messages from particular senders. Computer Weekly's Cliff Saran speaks to Matt Glotzbach, product management director, Google Enterprise, about how it works.

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