June 2005
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- Cover story:
Service denied
How organised crime is closing down online business
- How Green IT can cut environmental impact - and costs
- X-ray specs: the transparent supply chain revealed
- Asset management emerges as a vital business application
- Applied IT
Service denied
How organised crime is closing down online business
Locked out
A growing band of extortionists, political activists and malicious hackers are using denial of service attacks to overwhelm and close down online businesses and web sites – leaving customers out in the cold.
MANAGEMENT
Green economics?
Environmentally conscious IT policies can be good for both the planet and the bottom line.
TECHNOLOGY
Transparent dealings
Companies are seeing the benefits flow by improving supply chain visibility. But getting partners on board can present a challenge.
LEGAL COUNSEL
Court is in session
How can organisations ensure that their electronic files and documents represent credible evidence in a court of law?
Analysis
May's news in depth:
- The missing emails that cost Morgan Stanley $1.45 billion
- Is the global IT industry really recovering?
- A long, hot summer ahead for data centre managers
- IT governance: the buzzword defined
INFLUENCER
Shai Agassi
SAP's technology visionary and – by some accounts – the German software giant's CEO in waiting.
PEER TO PEER
Applied IT
Information Age's new section looking at IT in action:
- Alsom slices up its server estate with virtualisation
- High stakes on a low budget with Renault's F1 team
- How Somerfield can access any historical email in seconds
Knowledge transfer
The latest Information Age roundtable debate on e-learning.
Waste not, want not
Few organisations have a full picture of their IT assets. But under cost and accountability pressures, more are opting for asset management packages.
COMPANIES
News review
IBM's layoffs, Lastminute.com's big sale and mobiles underground.
Infoconomy Index
Company analysis
Sinners or winners?
RIM
i2
Check Point
NetSuite
FINANCE
Financial report
HP and Siebel: troubled giants? Plus the latest numbers from the security sector.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Online advertiser Doubleclick is the latest technology company to be taken private, while Sun buys Tarantella.
DDoS is a true-life horror story, says Kenny MacIver, and companies need to start taking the threat seriously.
Readers' letters
Feedback on security, outsourcing and VMS.
UPDATES
Insider
"Software licence mismanagement is a crime."
Stats entertainment: instant messaging
Extreme IT: Battery assault
CIOs to turn night watchmen
PeopleSoft reborn?
RESOURCES
Industry trends
Analyst reports and surveys on:
Software as a service
Content filtering/email security
Storage management software
Application integration middleware
IT skills
Books
Art of Intrusion
Last word
Should governments ever bail out their national IT 'champions', asks Andrew Lawrence?
