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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."