The CEO of France Telecom will keep their charge

The Board of the company maintains the Executive in his Office after the support shown by the French President.

The French State, the maximum the teleco shareholder, supports the Executive, that will keep the charge despite found in the middle of a judicial investigation.

Last week Justice pointed to Stéphane Richard, CEO of the operator after the Orange brand, by its possible involvement in the case Tapie, that investigates the role of the State in alleged illegal compensation from the employer. Richard was one of the first swords from the Finance Department during the tenure of Nicolas Sarkozy.

French President Francois Hollande has publicly expressed support for Richard until justice is pronounced. The Board of Directors of the operator will follow the example of the head of the French Government and will keep Richard in the position of CEO.

The French State has a share of 27% in France Telecom, which is the biggest operator in the country. The teleco is present in Spain through Orange.

Workers, who have 5% of the shares of the company, have also shown their support to Richard. Reactions among Union officials however have been in some cases contrary to the maintenance of the Executive, according to Bloomberg.

CIOs speak of their budget priorities

Technology investments focus on priority issues such as the computing in the cloud via SaaS services and aimed at the mobile TI paradigm shift.

The consultancy Forrester said early year to TI business spending will grow in 2013 a 5.4%.

As detailed consultancy firm, this year will be transitional until 2014, when it is expected to global technology spending to increase by 6.7%.

But CIOs have already established their priorities for investment, as ZDNet in a meeting held with representatives of the industry alongside the body of professional services of the Australian Institute of management (AIM).

CIOs have given their points of view about preferences of TI in their companies, devoting significant budget items to priority as the cloud computing topics through software as a service (SaaS), information security and change mobile aimed at the TI paradigm.

CRM software (Customer Relationship Management) will also be one of the main focuses of the expenditure in enterprise applications around the world this year and the next, according to data presented recently by the Gartner research firm.

Companies are heading for the mass introduction of mobile devices, which require changes in its technology, investment strategy to make that many of its services are accessible without any problems from any device.

The Forrester report has seeded the arrival of mobile technologies companies need that they will accompany changes in corporate organization and new business processes and address.

4 out of 10 companies in the Amazon Cloud should improve their security

A study of optimization of cloud computing services company Newvem shows that security is the pending issue for many companies that are part of the Amazon Cloud.
In particular, 61.545 pages were analyzed to that part of Amazon Web Services, services platform of Cloud Computing, managed by the company of Jeff Bezos.
Newvem report warns that many companies are not aware that aspects such as safety, efficiency and monitoring the activity on their web pages, are aspects that have the same relevance in the cloud than in data centers.