CIOs participating in a recent workshop agreed that rather than resisting IT consumerisation - the gradual overlapping of personal and corporate computing environments - companies should now ‘accept the inevitable’ and start to plan how their IT operations and businesses can benefit from the new trend.

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Large companies, it would seem, are still struggling to justify the cost of complying with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS for short.

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Research body e-skills is concerned about the shortage of IT graduates in the UK and is fearful that industry will suffer - but won’t CIOs go where the market is healthier and simply buy in IT expertise from other countries?

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According to some news reports and media commentators, Microsoft’s imminent - some say February the 15th - release of Vista’s first service pack (SP1) is likely to “herald a new wave of adoption… especially among business customers”. We wonder where they get their information from.

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Corporate IT Forum research examining the spending patterns of 50 large Forum members has revealed that business investment in high quality voice and data networks peaked at the end of 2007 - and that this was matched by a real-term drop in per-user cost.

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Desktop screens should be allowed to be idle for between 10 and 15 minutes before corporate screen savers kick in - according to Forum members participating in a recent online debate.

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