Features
EFFECTIVE IT
Fitting reward for the IT sector
Announcing the winners of the Effective IT 2007 Awards.
By Pete Swabey
SECURITY
The inside job
High profile data losses are forcing organisations to tackle culprits operating inside the firewall.
By Michelle Price
VIDEO CONFERENCING
Worlds apart
Video conferencing has never lived up to its promise. That is starting to change.
By Hannah Prevett
Perspective
LEGACY APPLICATION
Back to the future
Deciding whether to replace or migrate legacy applications is made all the harder by the opacity of the stack.
By Pete Swabey
DATA CENTRE
Mass migration
The rush to move data centres out of urban environments is heightening the shortage of suitable locations.
By Gareth Morgan
SECURITY
PCI: Plastic pain
IT and compliance chiefs are questioning the simplicity of the new PCI payment card security standard.
By Michelle Price
Industry
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Pornography use continues to cause a stir
IT executives need to be more diligent about monitoring and controlling the information passing across their networks if they are to protect their company’s brand image, fulfil compliance obligations and avoid employee legal action.
By Pete Swabey
IT ALIGNMENT
IT alignment remains a pain point
There needs to be board level support if IT alignment is to make a substantive impact on the bottom line.
By Pete Swabey
IT SERVICES
Indian IT services market continues to grow
Amid rumours of companies becoming increasingly likely to bring their IT requirements back onshore, the Indian IT services market continues to grow rapidly.
By Pete Swabey
SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
HP adds optimisation
The acquistions of Opsware and Neoware are part of Hewlett-Packard's joined-up strategy.
By Phil Jones
IT INDUSTRY
Industry pace levels at 12%
Industry index for July
By Pete Swabey
INDUSTRY
Currency commotion
The escalating value of the rupee is beginning to damage the Indian IT services industry's revenues.
By Pete Swabey
IT INDUSTRY
Month in review
July's news reviewed.
By Pete Swabey
INDUSTRY
Mail merging
Google enters the security arena with its acquisition of hosted email protection provider Postini.
By Pete Swabey
PROCESSORS
AMD redefines processor metrics
AMD's long awaited Barcelona chip puts a new spin on bangs for bucks.
By Phil Jones
Departments
SECURITY
Introspective security
It's time organisations took a more introspective approach to security, says Information Age editor, Kenny MacIver.
By Pete Swabey
MONEY LAUNDERING
Ill-gotten gains
Client screening and anti-money laundering systems are being stretched to the limit.
By Pete Swabey
BOOK
The beasts from the East
Forbes journalist Robyn Meredith explores how China and India became the new superpowers-in-waiting, and what that means for the rest of us.
By Pete Swabey
SECURITY
E-crime: Does the government care?
Following the dissolution of the National High-Tech Crime Unit, business leaders are increasingly concerned about the UK government’s commitment to tackling e-crime.
By Pete Swabey
BOOK
Change management
Pip Coburn, founder of ‘change consultancy’ Coburn Ventures, argues that consumers are essentially resistant to new technologies and need a good reason to change their habits.
By Pete Swabey
Back issues
Information Age, August 2008 - Desktop virtualisation, unified communications, cultrual dimensions in offshore outsourcing.
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
