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Management & Skills

What are IT leaders thinking?

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

Year in review

The Cloud & Virtualization

Cloud computing – still gathering

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

Comms & Networking

Handling mobility

Both IT departments and the hardware industry will continue to struggle with the smartphone and tablet revolution in 2012

Information Management

Big in 2012?

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

Information Management

The revolution continues

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

Information Management

IT's focus shifts to data management

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

Security & Continuity

Showing up security 

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

Information Management

The data protection gaffes of 2011

A look back at some of the worst infringements of data protection by businesses and the public sector last year

Information Management

Is open data under threat?

Many advocates of open data were dismayed by developments in 2011

Information Management

Who controls 'smart' data?

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

IT Services

Talent economics

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

Management & Skills

Out of their hands

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

Back Issues

  • December 2011

    A taxonomy of CIOs, cross-sector collaboration on cyber crime, cloud migration, Q&A: US Department of Defense

  • November 2011

    End user computing, Advanced Message Queueing Protocol, Cloud Security 2011, London Conference on Cyber Security

  • October 2011

    The organisational impact of social collaboration, IT in waste management, disrupting the content delivery network industry, Q&A: Thomson Reuters

  • September 2011

    Does SaaS threaten CIO control?, commercialising open data, the UK's Internet of Things industry, Q&A: Experian

  • July / August 2011

    Integrating risk with customer and finance data, The Future of the Data Centre, Q&A: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • June 2011

    The mobile executive, IT-CMF in action, data centre security, how the Macmillan Cancer Support manages information across multiple channels

  • May 2011

    Mobile payments, call centre management, Research report: security adoption, Q&A: Accenture CIO

  • April 2011

    What is big data?, the right to be forgotten, IT outsourcing in the energy sector, Q&A – Salvation Army UK

  • March 2011

    Cyber security skills, web applications, Managing IT Cost Effectively 2011, Q&A: Birmingham Airport

  • February 2011

    11 IT innovations for 2011, Information Age innovation awards, Global Tech Report 2011, testing the IT infrastructure for London Olympics 2012

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