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Highlights

Money, power and the media most bullish on IT spend – IDC 

 14 October 2011

Companies in the finance, utilities and media sectors are most likely to increase their investment in IT, according to a new report by the market research firm

Q&A – Thomson Reuters

 10 October 2011

Jane Moran, CIO of the professional and business information provider, on standardising applications, building an internal software development function and improving IT delivery

Mining dark fibre

 07 October 2011

Discovering an unused fibre optic cable in Mongolia allowed BSO Network Solutions to shave milliseconds from the latency on its London to Hong Kong network

Symantec and KPMG spin cloud stats in opposite directions

 04 October 2011

Security company and professional services firm find similar results in their cloud adoption surveys, but interpret them very differently

Betfair security chief departs after data breach exposed

 04 October 2011

Online betting exchange's director of security leaves company after data breach that happened 18 months ago is reported in press

Building societies to "invest heavily" in IT

 03 October 2011

New report from the CBI and PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that building societies plan to invest in technology, but IT spending by banks "cannot last"

Crisis analytics

 03 October 2011

How one Greek bank prepared for the financial crisis using business intelligence

Mike Lynch "has a poor memory or he's lying" – Oracle

 29 September 2011

Spat unfolds between IT giant Oracle and UK software provider Autonomy, over whether CEO Lynch tried to shop his company before HP acquisition

NetApp casts itself as EMC’s storage rival

 26 September 2011

Vendor portrays storage market as two horse race, although its larger competitor begs to differ

Restricted view

 23 September 2011

Many organisations are struggling to meet unpredictable demand for IT services with constrained data centre capacity, Information Age’s latest roundtable debate heard

iPad will dominate tablet market until 2015

 23 September 2011

Apple's tablet devices will control at least half the market for the next three years, says Gartner

Connect the nation

 20 September 2011

Can the UK overcome sector fragmentation to build an ‘Internet of things’ industry?

Email and collaboration will be mostly cloudy by 2020

 20 September 2011

Gartner predicts that 55% of the email and collaboration systems market will be hosted in nine years' time. Plus, Google is now a legitimate enterprise email provider

Is SaaS a threat to CIO control?

 20 September 2011

Can IT leaders maintain information strategy when business units procure their own applications?

Open for business

 19 September 2011

Nike is leading the way in the business use of open data

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