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In this week's podcast: With CES under way in Las Vegas, Connected Business talks to experts from National Geographic, Clear Magazine and Adobe about the impact of tablets on the publishing business. Plus, we discuss data privacy in the cloud with Rackspace's CTO, John Engates.

In this week's podcast: How are businesses budgeting for, and paying for, IT? Connected Business speaks to Tony Wilson, finance director at Kimal plc, and Paul Caris, CIO of law firm Eversheds, on how they balance the books. Plus Good Technology's CTO Nicko van Someren on keeping consumer devices safe.

It is not just economic uncertainty that has prompted CIOs to do more with less. Cheaper consumer devices, and cloud computing, are making IT more powerful, and more flexible. We speak to Adobe's CTO, Kevin Lynch, about smart devices and apps, to Constellation Research's Ray Wang about moving back office software to the cloud, and hear how the Wellcome Trust saved £600,000 on a single cloud computing project.

In this week's podcast: Smart technology, regulations, and ethical hackers Smart technology could change the information companies gather on their customers, according to research by PA Consulting. And, as businesses gather more data, they also need better protection. Could ethical hackers help? Plus, Getronics' CTO Tim Patrick-Smith on how he tackles the growing burden on regulation.

In this week's podcast: We hear from Gartner's Dave Aron on the evolving IT-business relationship, and from Klaus Nyengaard, CEO of Just Eat, on running a business that will only work if it hides the technology from its customers. Plus, Accenture's chief technology innovation officer, Gavin Michael on using IT to manage risk.

Enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management may lack glamour, but they are big-ticket IT purchases for many companies. Is now the time to make new investments in back office technology? And can social media spice up CRM? We hear from experts at software vendors IFS and JDA, Gartner, and Accenture.

In this week's podcast: How are financial firms making use of technology? Banks have continued to invest in IT despite the downturn. Industry analyst Martha Bennett, of Freeform Dynamics, explains some of the reasons why. And Steve Chambers, CIO of Visa Europe, discusses the challenges that come with storing 22bn pieces of information, as well as developing new payment technologies. Plus, in the first of a three-part interview, we hear from Gavin Michael, chief technology innovation officer at Accenture, on why businesses will buy IT services from the cloud.

In this week's podcast: Is cloud computing going to transform the way businesses run IT? We hear from a UK company that runs almost all its IT in the cloud, and speak to the author of a National Computing Centre/PA Consulting report on how businesses can best make use of the technology. Plus, Gartner's Steve Prentice on the fusion of e-commerce and social networking: social commerce. Produced and presented by Stephen Pritchard

The trend for employees to bring their own devices to work — and for companies to turn to consumer devices — raises questions of security, data privacy, and support

In this week's podcast: We hear how investment bankers are using tablets to monitor the markets, and how laptops with supercomputer power are changing personal computing. And we round off our series on big data with some pointers from Deloitte on building a data-driven enterprise.

An in-depth look at IT sourcing, and continuing our series on Big Data, we go behind the scenes at Wimbledon to hear how analytics are helping tennis pros

This week we look at the findings of the PA Consulting – Harvey Nash survey of CIOs, focusing on how businesses are sourcing their IT. In our series on big data, we hear how a company with origins in forestry is helping local governments manage the built environment. And we speak to Eugene Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs, about cybersecurity threats

Over the next few weeks, the Connected Business will run a series of interviews with organisations that are using "big data", developing technologies to manage it, and providing the know-how to unlock its potential. This week’s show features interviews with data experts and we hear how Oxford University used student data to rebuff recent charges of elitism.

IT spending, and especially IT investments by enterprises, provides a useful proxy for wider levels of confidence. One IT company that is better placed than most to offer a view on whether those investments are picking up again is SAP. Connected Business spoke to its co-CEOs, Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott. Plus, we hear how UK-headquartered electronics manufacturer Psion is using IT to help it to trade around the world.

O2, the UK mobile phone operator is using technology to monitor and cut its carbon footprint. The latest data on outsourcing and an interview with Microsoft's CIO, Tony Scott.