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2 July 2009

NEWS

Union protest disrupts Cisco conference

02 July 2009

CEO John Chambers’ keynote interrupted by union members protesting janitor lay-offs

ID cards will not be compulsory

01 July 2009

Carrying an identity card “should be a personal choice” says Home Secretary, raising fresh questions about the utility of the scheme

IT sector could bounce back this year, says Forrester

30 June 2009

A strong recovery in the IT sector could come about as soon as the fourth quarter of 2009, says analyst firm

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The social process

How social software is changing the way companies design and execute business processes

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Highlights

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Across the virtual world

Desktop virtualisation has helped payments processing provider VocaLink unify its global development operations, and has brought other benefits rather closer to home

Development & Integration

The distributed brain

Grid computing project to simulate human brain could 'become conscious'

Security & Continuity

Anatomy of a data heist

A forensic investigator describes how one company successfully addressed a suspected data breach

IT Services

Advancing partners

At the Hosting, Outsourcing & Managed Services 2009 event, part of Information Age’s Spring Forum, delegates heard how the global outsourcing industry is evolving – in their favour

Development & Integration

Enterprise adoption takes Amazon Web Services by surprise

But cloud computing first mover insists it is 'enterprise ready'

Management & Skills

The cuts that bind

Information Age’s latest roundtable debate on operational cost reduction found that IT departments are united by a common cause

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