Are we experiencing the beginning of the end for IT complexity? Ask most CIOs what is their biggest headache, and they will tell you about the restrictions caused by the complexity of their legacy IT - inherited from their predecessor...

As revealed first today by Computer Weekly, Andy Nelson is to take over as the new government CIO once current incumbent Joe Harley retires at the end of March. In a similar arrangement to Harley, Nelson will combine the top...

There are some topics in technology that you wish you no longer had to write about. Government IT failures, for example. The scarcity of UK tech start-ups growing into international players. The business/IT divide. The lack of women in IT....

So you've been back at work for a week now after the Christmas binge, and no doubt already you're fed up with 2012 prediction stories. In true mea culpa mode, Computer Weekly is as guilty as anyone, as our first...

So that was 2011. How was it for IT? If there's one trend you can pull out from the year it has been the rapidly shifting sands beneath the feet of some of the biggest names in the industry. And...