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Changing the barrels

 07 February 2012

Pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers recently switched its data centre and network outsourcing supplier to achieve more scalable, outcome-based IT services

Malicious emails spike on US public holidays

 07 February 2012

The volume of emails with malware attachments spikes around Thanksgiving and Labour Day, according to research from security company FireEye

Speechly Bircham extends network to support global growth

 07 February 2012

How the UK law firm extended its network infrastructure to support new offices in Switzerland and Luxembourg

The cloud shift

 07 February 2012

Cloud computing is shifting the IT department’s role from handling technology to managing contracts and suppliers, Information Age’s latest roundtable debate heard

Talent economics

 30 January 2012

Outsourcing was back in vogue in 2011 but a movement to address the IT skills gap in the UK began in earnest 

Is open data under threat?

 30 January 2012

Many advocates of open data were dismayed by developments in 2011

Showing up security 

 30 January 2012

Hacktivists and cyber criminals continued to make a mockery of the security practices of some of the world's most respected organisations in 2011

What are IT leaders thinking?

 30 January 2012

Information Age's 2012 reader survey reveals the UK IT management profession's priorities for the coming year

Who controls 'smart' data?

 24 January 2012

The UK’s coming smart meter roll-out will set the precedent on how much control individuals have over data collected by ‘smart’ systems

Cloud computing – still gathering

 24 January 2012

Cloud computing did not see a landslide of adoption in 2011, but concrete examples of cloud in action are now abundant

Data centre power still under pressure

 24 January 2012

Demand for data centre capacity was tempered by economic circumstances in 2011, but power management remains the hot topic

IT's focus shifts to data management

 24 January 2012

There are signs that data management is eclipsing applications as the IT department’s primary focus

Out of their hands

 17 January 2012

Analysts are predicting that technology trends will further dimiinsh the CIO's control over IT procurement

The revolution continues

 17 January 2012

Despite the fact that it has now been around for years, social media continues to disrupt technologies and organisational hierarchies

Big in 2012?

 17 January 2012

Technology is emerging that helps organisations analyse more data at greater spead. But do mainstream business really need it?

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