podcasts @ComputerWeekly

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.