In this podcast Patrick Spencer, Editor-in-Chief of CIO Digest, discusses the October 2009 issue, which includes interviews with John Suffolk, the CIO and CISO of Her Majesty’s Government (U.K.) and Adrian Chamberlain, the senior vice president of Symantec Hosted Services as well as features on Endpoint Virtualization and IT in the public sector.

The exhilarating roar of 20 engines simultaneously revving to 18,000 RPM at the beginning of a Formula One race creates an adrenaline rush that is difficult to describe. The CIO of Renault F1 Team, Graeme Hackland, has seen the highs and lows of F1 over his 12-plus years at Renault F1 Team. In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Hackland discusses how he and his team are playing a critical role in helping the Renault F1 Team to achieve and maintain optimal levels of high performance.

In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Adrian Chamberlain, the SVP of Symantec Hosted Services, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing him and his team. The interview touches on a number of topics-from Chamberlain’s educational and professional background, to the definition of cloud computing versus SaaS, to the go-to-market strategy of Symantec Hosted Services.

For those who have enjoyed a dining experience at a Red Robin Gourmet Burger restaurant, one of the first things you notice is the visibility and attention given to the company’s core values. In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Chris Laping, VP and CIO, and Bill Randall, director of IT, at Red Robin International expound upon how they replicate and embody those values in IT. Laping also addresses top-of-mind issues such as cloud computing, social networking, Green IT, and more.

Bill Randall, the director of IT at Red Robin International, moved from restaurant operations into IT 12 years ago and never looked back. In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Randall discusses how he and his team have leveraged various Symantec solutions to help the company to sell more burgers and enhance the experience of guests. The solutions include virtualized data protection, data loss prevention, email and unstructured data archiving and e-discovery, and endpoint security.

In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, John Suffolk, the CIO and CISO for Her Majesty’s Government, delves into the macro-strategy behind the Transformational Government initiative that was launched four years ago. The interview covers a number of different topics; everything from the three core themes of the Transformational Government initiative, to shared services and cloud computing, to vendor management, to focusing on citizen and business services.

Greg Topf, Director of IT at New Bay Media, candidly discusses unique challenges IT departments face in the economic downturn, and how to constructively use this opportunity to become more efficient.

In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Andrew Beechener, Managing Director, Datascape Online explores how the firm is shrinking the size of its backups by 95%. This UK-based managed data protection services provider is improving storage utilization with Symantec, reducing the cost of tape management, and effectively managing the complete backup and recovery lifecycle.

In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Robert Zeman, VP of IT Operations and Infrastructure at AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, and his IT leadership team discuss his thirty-six year run at AgFirst and why translation of business requirements into technology initiatives has been key to his success. The organizationally and geographically dispersed structure of AgFirst, which includes 22 farmer-owned cooperatives, presents the team with some unique challenges.

In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Ken Berryman, Symantec's SVP of Strategy, discusses how he and his team are helping to define corporate strategy--from its generation, to its facilitation, to its execution. The interview touches on how Berryman is aligning with the core 2010 priorities spelled out by President and CEO Enrique Salem, Symantec's methodological approach to acquisitions, and importance of gathering input from customers, partners, the investment community, and employees.