Features
SOCIAL NETWORKING
Social networking within the enterprise
Business use of social networking is fuelling a revolution in collaboration
By Pete Swabey
VIRTUALISATION & SECURITY
Securing virtual environments
What can organisations do to ensure virtualisation initiatives are not compromising their security regimes?
By Phil Jones
HEWLETT-PACKARD
An interview with Ann Livermore
The head of HP’s $33 billion Technology Solutions Group talks to Information Age about the hottest topics in IT
By Kenny MacIver
Perspective
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Last of the independents
Rapid consolidation in the BI market has raised questions over the future of the remaining independent vendors
By Pete Swabey
CONTINUITY
When the sky falls
Forced out of its offices by a collapsing building, Watson Wyatt saw its business continuity investments prove their worth
By Pete Swabey
STORAGE
The natural selection of storage
London’s Natural History Museum has a physical storage challenge like no other organisation
By Kenny MacIver
EXPERT ADVICE
Data theft is a people issue
It is important to understand the legal context for guarding against data theft, says Warren Wayne of law firm Bird & Bird.
By Warren Wayne
Q&A
DHL Logistics
CIO Nigel Underwood explains how DHL completed the largest IT integration project ever undertaken in its sector
By Kenny MacIver
Industry
MONTH IN REVIEW
Month in review
All the top stories from March 2008
By Pete Swabey
IT SERVICES
EMC buys a presence in European consulting
Conchango purchase continues storage giant's reinvention
By Pete Swabey
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
IFS capitalises on globalisation
All the world's a stage for business applications provider
By Kenny MacIver
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE
Cape Clear buy gives Workday integration on demand
On-demand application provider brings "integration-as-a-service" in house
By Pete Swabey
SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Born-again CA tries to forge a new identity
Systems management software provider looks to product development - not just acquisition - for salvation
By Kenny MacIver
FINANCIAL REPORT
Oracle's financials disappoint investors looking for a hero
Meanwhile, Red Hat proves the value of open source. Plus, IT companies flee London markets
By Pete Swabey
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
HP expands information management armoury
As it bows out of identity management, Hewlett-Packard grows its IM portfolio
By
Departments
SECURITY
Beating the cheaters
A Las Vegas security expert provides a glimpse of the techniques that casinos use to catch out cheating gamblers
By Pete Swabey
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Terminal IT management
Does the staggering IT failure at Heathrow's Terminal 5 prove big bang projects never work?
By Pete Swabey
FINANCE
Inflated confidence in Zimbabwe
Misys sees a silver lining in Zimbabwe's economic collapse
By Pete Swabey
E-CRIME
Perfect crime
The global e-crime underground provides a masterclass in modern business practice
By Pete Swabey
IMMIGRATION
IT immigration grows 14 percent
But new jobs still being created
By Pete Swabey
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Business intelligence market thickens
The business intelligence market is heading for a slowdown.
By Pete Swabey
SOA
Half of UK businesses sold on SOA
By Pete Swabey
MANAGEMENT
Outsourcing aids innovation
Outsourcing helps IT organisations focus on innovation, according to consultancy and IT services provider Capgemini’s 2008 Global CIO survey.
By Pete Swabey
MOBILE INTERNET
Europe getting caught up in the mobile web
Improved network coverage, wider handset availability and new pricing models are about to ignite rapid adoption of mobile Internet services in
By Pete Swabey
MANAGEMENT
Three out of five IT staff bullied at work
Abusive management practices in the IT department adversely impact productivity
By Laurie Penny
MANAGEMENT
Book review - The IT Value Stack
Ade McCormack's treatise on IT management reviewed
By Kenny MacIver
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
