February 2005
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- Cover story:
A redundant device
- Secure from the ground up: building watertight software
- The second coming of the data centre hosting sector
- Storage architectures for dealing with the next data deluge
- Q&A: Prudential
A redundant device
A redundant device
The PC has dominated the desktop for 25 years, but as CIOs look for cost savings, has it now had its day?
TECHNOLOGY
Secure from the ground up
To lay the foundations for a more secure IT future, businesses must start building security into applications.
TECHNOLOGY
Under pressure
Mid-sized businesses are embracing supply chain technology, once the preserve of big business.
STRATEGY
The next data deluge
What strategies are organisations pursuing to prepare for more demanding requirements for storage?
PROFILE
Reinventing Cisco
The networking giant has embarked on a radical business transformation.
Could alliance spark price war?
The alliance established to combat Vodafone’s roaming empire breaks cover at 3GSM.
INFLUENCER
Ian Watmore
The first government CIO is charged with improving public sector IT by giving it much-needed direction and creating a strategic framework to deliver change.
Q&A
Prudential UK
The life and pensions company’s IT architecture chief discusses the technologies that supported the transformation of its customer services.
OPINION
Plea against IT myopia
Carl Bate, VP of enterprise architecure at Capgemini, argues that service-oriented architecture is challenging the approach of ‘buy now, worry later’.
Co-location 2.0
After a near-death experience triggered by the dot com bust, the data centre hosting industry is finally fighting its way back to health.
COMPANIES
Month in review
SBC buys AT&T, BT’s mega outsourcing deal, IBM gives away its patents and Vienna goes open source.
Infoconomy Index
Company analysis
The big suppliers in depth.
Lotusphere
Compuware
NetIQ
Novell
FINANCE
Financial report
How Microsoft made a billion a month. Plus: IBM, SAP, Misys.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cisco gets its WLAN, McData gobbles up CNT and IBM gets cosy with Corio.
Kenny MacIver describes one Information Age reader’s personal epiphany on the imminent demise of the PC..
READERS' LETTERS
To store or to delete? The debate rages on compliance, along with open source and budgeting.
UPDATES
Insider
"RFID is the way of the future"
Carly loses hearts and minds
Stats entertainment: Losing IT
Extreme IT: Outer space
Confused?
CIOs upbeat on business improvement
RESOURCES
Crib sheet
An introduction to business process management.
Industry trends
Predictions from the experts
Enterprise applications
Financial applications
Enterprise security
Mobile middleware
Personal computers
Books
Reviews of
The New CIO Leader
Technology Paradise Lost
Last word
Official economic statistics are underestimating the shift to online retail. By Andrew Lawrence
