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Comms & Networking

A moving platform

Why the increasing use of smartphones to support business applications calls for strategic thinking

Comms & Networking

Putting the iPad to work 

How one furniture retailer has found a business use case for Apple's tablet device

Comms & Networking

Augmented reality’s gradual progression

The technology's development resembles the evolution of the web, says Layar's Maarten Lens-FitzGerald

Information Management

Living in memory

Will in-memory databases entirely replace their disk-based forebears? 

Information Management

Dancing with elephants

Database technology veteran Michael Stonebraker on why his latest venture is an open source, in-memory, transactional database

Information Management

Steps to success

Eight ways to improve the security, reliability and value of corporate information through data governance

Build a business case

Set up a data council

Appoint a council leader

Prioritise projects

Sell the bigger picture

Assert common definitions

Automate where possible

Measure success

Management & Skills

A problem exposed

The recession revealed serious issues in IT cost management, issues that still need to be addressed even if economic conditions improve

Comms & Networking

Sent from above

Does Europe need satellite broadband to provide Internet access for everyone?

Management & Skills

Think bigger

Businesses must learn to adopt a broader range of technologies if they are to innovate, says analyst and author Vinnie Mirchandani

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Open space

Why US space agency NASA contributed its self-built private cloud technology to an open source project

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

A data centre on ice

Managing the University of Wisconsin’s Antarctic IT facility is an exercise in making do with limited resources

IT Services

Indian IT sector back in business

Recent financial reports from the Indian IT outsourcing sector’s biggest names suggest that the industry gradually bouncing back

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Cultural concerns cloud acquisition potential

As a Japanese telco prepares to take over a South African IT services provider, analysts ask whether cultural differences might undermine the deal. Plus, can Adobe sell enterprise software?

Business Applications

Ex-Micro Focus CEO reappears as CloudApps director

Stephen Kelly buys into carbon management software-as-a-service provider, arguing that green tech could be an area where "the UK leads the world"

Information Management

OpenGamma aims open source model at financial markets

The UK-based start up has built a analytics and risk management platform for financial trading

Information Management

Talis sees semantic web penetrate the enterprise

Library software provider's decision to branch out into 'linked data' is beginning to pay off, says chief technology officer Ian Davis

Management & Skills

A tale of two CEO scandals

Two of the IT industry’s most powerful men landed in hot water this summer but the repercussions felt by each were very different

Comms & Networking

Not so neutral after all?

A policy proposal from search giant Google and US telecommunications operator Verizon has scandalised proponents of net neutrality

Open source take-up to soar, says study

Users struggling 'to make sense' of open data

European IT funding soars 69%

IT outsourcing growth slows, research shows