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This is the second part of the Computer Weekly interview with Frank Gillett, principal analyst at Forrester Research. In the last episode, Frank looked at the cloud infrastructure market. In this interview, Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran talks to Franks about the development of the personal cloud, a concept which could make operating systems irrelevant.

In the first of a two-part podcast interview, Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran talks to Frank Gillett, principal analyst at Forrester Research about his research on the cloud infrastructure market. Frank discusses the maturity of products like Google Application Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com's Force.com platform. He also covers the distinction between hosted services, outsourced services and cloud-based services.

Paul Fletcher, member of the first team to intercept the LoveBug worm on 4 May 2000 describes how events unfolded on that day and why it landmark event.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) published a http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats.html report detailing the http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/02/240471/rsa-2010-cloud-security-alliance-lists-top-cloud-threats.htm top security risks of cloud computing at the start of RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco.Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to Art Coviello, president of RSA, the security division of EMC, about the significance of the CSA’s report for businesses and security professionals.According to Coviello, all stakeholders have an inter-related role to play in ensuring an effective response to the security challenges outlined in the CSA report.

Computer Weekly went to Station X, Britain’s top secret World War 2 code breaking headquarters, to discover the story behind Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer.

Senior reporter Ian Grant spoke to cryptographer Captain Jerry Roberts about the origins of Colossus.

Roberts worked in the Testery, the part of Station X devoted to cracking Tunny, the code used by Hitler and his top generals. His colleagues included Alan Turing and Bill Tutte, the man responsible for working out how the Germans encrypted their messages.

As Roberts makes clear, without Tutte, Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers could never have invented Colossus, the first digital programmable electronic computer, thus laying the foundation for all electronic computers.

And as Roberts makes equally clear, Tutte and Flowers have never received popular recognition of their roles as pioneers of the computer age.

Wikinomics became the number one management book of 2007. Don Tapscott’s latest book, Grown-up Digital”, is now available. In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to him about the internet generation.

In Grown-up Digital, Tapscott argues that today’s youngsters have grown-up with the internet and are better suited to working in the digital age than previous generations. But business and governments are lagging behind. “We need to rebuild all our institutions. The corporation is broken. The financial system is broken. We need to change the basic modus operandi of government. Industrial age bureaucracies have been around a hundred years, and were a good idea because we had systems to prevent corruption. Now we have opportunities to move towards networked models, to create public value and change the nature of democracy.”

Integrated IT systems could have prevented the collapse of Barings Bank, says Nick Leeson, the trader who hid £826m in losses that led to the bank’s demise in 1995.

Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Leeson at a media briefing during RSA Conference 2009 why most financial organisations still lack such systems.

Leeson describes the IT systems at Barings as “mishmash” as he answers this and other IT-related questions about how he was able to hide his losses for so long.