Features
FIXED-MOBILE CONVERGENCE
Twisted pairing
Fixed-mobile convergence may confound the sceptics.
By Gareth Morgan
MANAGED PRINT SERVICES
Printing by proxy
Outsourcing print management can bring control over a major business cost.
By Diana Walker
SECURITY
Cyber assault
The threat to the UK’s critical IT infrastructure from cyber terrorists and activists is growing.
By Michelle Price
Perspective
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
Alpha mail
Tech giants open up enterprise email battlefront.
By Pete Swabey
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Cultivating CRM
The customer relationship management market is the testbed for new application paradigms.
By Chiedu Nosegbe (Squiz)
Interaction
CRM
Travelex exchanges its CRM
The world’s largest currency exchange brings order to its CRM systems.
By Hannah Prevett
INFRASTRUCTURE OUTSOURCING
The AA
The director of information systems at The AA explains how he built a new IT infrastructure.
By Pete Swabey
SOA
Making the SOA connection
Carphone Warehouse ensures rapid responses to changes in the telecoms market.
By Chiedu Nosegbe (Squiz)
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
Inbox surveillance
Dorset Police home in on email security and archiving.
By Pete Swabey
Industry
FINANCIAL RESULTS
European unison
Europe’s largest IT services companies last month confirmed a return to robust health.
By Pete Swabey
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE
Integration hits the top spot
SOA and SaaS are hot on the heels of inter-application integration as top priorities for IT decision-makers in 2007.
By Hannah Prevett
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Network effects
Cisco takes WebEx, and Microsoft buys into speech recognition with TellMe.
By Pete Swabey
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Open Text seeks solace in specialism
Open Text touts its 'pure play' enterprise content management credentials.
By Gareth Morgan
SERVERS
Growth in server market cools
The prolonged life span of modern servers – particularly x86 machines – and the application of server virtualisation techniques have resulted in slower sales and lower revenue growth in the server market.
By Hannah Prevett
SECURITY SOFTWARE
Confidence in security wanes
Despite a plethora of products to combat the proliferation of security threats faced by IT organisations, confidence in the ability to avoid a security breach is still low.
By Pete Swabey
SOX COMPLIANCE
SOX investment levels out
IT directors who maintain that the expense of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance leaves less in the pot for IT innovation will be pleased to learn that previously rapidly escalating levels of SOX investment are finally flattening out.
By Hannah Prevett
BUSINESS AGILITY
People power
IT departments are struggling to deliver the kind of IT agility required to support the quickening pace of business change.
By Pete Swabey
COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING
Can Progress Software predict the ‘event’ horizon?
Progress readies CEP for take off.
By Gareth Morgan
HIGH-END SERVERS
Sun shines again as Niagara rises
The research and development-led turnaround at Sun Microsystems.
By Gareth Morgan
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
HP joins BI frenzy
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard is to beef up its BI portfolio.
By Gareth Morgan
Departments
WEB 2.0
Beware Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is unproven and confused, and looks suspiciously like dot-com 1.0.
By Chiedu Nosegbe (Squiz)
DATA CENTRE
Data centre building blocks
Modular data centres inside shipping containers offer a glimpse of next-generation infrastructure.
By Gareth Morgan
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
Smoking emails
Tracking down emails within government.
By Gareth Morgan
GREEN COMPUTING
Green fever
Vendors hope to reap a Green computing sales bonanza. They may be disappointed.
By Gareth Morgan
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Sky-high supply
Lunar logistics.
By Pete Swabey
IT AND INNOVATION
The end of an empire?
US loses technology leadership. To Denmark.
By Pete Swabey
SECURITY
A very real threat
The convergence of networks has exposed many more weak-points.
By Pete Swabey
Also in the April issue
Back issues
Information Age, July 2008 - The evolution of the CIO, Agile development, enterprise content management. Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2008
Information Age, June 2008 - Offshore innovation, Green IT in action, storage deduplication. Management report: Business Intelligence 08. Research Report: The value of IT
Information Age, May 2008 - The coming energy drought, women in IT. Research report: Information orchestration. Business briefing: Shadow data systems. Management report: Future of Software 2008
Information Age, April 2008 - Corporate social networking, securing virtual environments, an interview with HP's enterprise chief Ann Livermore
Information Age, March 2008 - IT opportunity and threat in the new Chinese economy, thin provisioning, the Effective IT 2008 Summit
Information Age, February 2008 - Living without an IT director, alternative biometrics, WiMax. Research report: Data governance
Information Age, January 2008 - The Effective IT 2008 Report: The technologies and services behind today's most dramatic business success stories. Plus: Management Report - IT for the M Business
Information Age, December 2007 - Data centre mythbusting, protecting against floods, SaaS meets SOA. Management report: Eco-responsibilty in IT
Information Age, November 2007 - Contactless payment systems, data centre co-location, systems management & virtualisation. Research report: Maximising IT's potential
Information Age, October 2007 - Serious business in virtual worlds, agile development at Standard Life, VMware profile, NHS Direct Q&A
Information Age, August 2007 - The insider security threat, video conferencing, Effective IT Awards winners report
Information Age, June 2007 - New licensing models, search and BI, Capgemini's global strategy, Q&A: British Energy
Information Age, July 2007 - Agile ERP, financial service innovation, Storage, Business Briefing: XML integration, Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2007, Research Report: Virtualisation
Information Age, May 2007 - Dynamic pricing, business process management, content management, Q&A: Reuters
Information Age, April 2007 - Cyber assault, managed print services, fixed-mobile convergence, Management Report: Business Intelligence 2007
Information Age, March 2007 - SOA design pitfalls, virtualisation and the operating systems, Business Briefing: Enterprise 2.0
Information Age, February 2007 - Out of India, the life and times of the relational database, The Effective IT 2007 Summit
Information Age, January 2007 - Advanced analytics, green IT, the state of security, The Effective IT 2007 Report
