Features
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES
The third way
Combining on-demand software with on-premise code might prove to be the most powerful software paradigm yet. But the blend will not be without its difficulties
By Pete Swabey
DATA CENTRE
Crossed wires
Challenging the conventional data centre thinking.
By Gareth Morgan
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Staying afloat
The widespread flooding that hit the UK this summer proved a severe test for many businesses’ disaster recovery measures
By Pete Swabey
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Riding the storm
Hurricane Katrina was the US’s most costly natural disaster ever; and companies like Interior Exterior Building Supply found out just how ill prepared they were
By Pete Swabey
Perspective
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
GameStop guns for growth
Single instance of business apps to support international expansion at games retailer.
By Gareth Morgan
LORD ERROLL
The politics of security
Cross-bench peer Lord Erroll gives Information Age the inside scoop on the controversial Personal Internet Security report
By Pete Swabey
DATA PROTECTION
The ID dilemma
Protecting customers’ online identities while preserving the convenience of online transactions is a major business challenge
By Pete Swabey
SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
Leader in the field
BT streamlines customer call-outs with SOA
By Pete Swabey
DATA QUALITY
Polk position
Vehicle information specialist Polk has refined its data quality by switching from a mainframe to a grid system
By Gareth Morgan
Industry
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion
Business intelligence industry rapidly disappearing.
By Pete Swabey
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Dell buys for the future
Dell acquires a storage vendor and a SaaS desktop management provider to recapture its former glory.
By Pete Swabey
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
IBM ISS sets out to quell security industry turmoil
IBM's $1.5 billion investment in a unified security platform.
By Pete Swabey
INFOCONOMY INDEX
Global index hits four-year high
Industry index for November
By Pete Swabey
IT INDUSTRY
Month in review
A round-up of November 2007's biggest stories from the IT sector.
By Pete Swabey
HANDHELD DEVICES
The death of the PDA is looming
Long live the smart phone
By Pete Swabey
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Information Builders unfazed by BI feeding frenzy
Innovation still drives the independent BI market, says CEO Gerry Cohen.
By Pete Swabey
FINANCIAL REPORT
Cisco spooks Wall Street with credit-crunch caution
Networking giant's credit-crunch caution sees shares plunge. Plus, BEA's celebrity shareholder learns a secret.
By Pete Swabey
OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING
HCL Technologies takes outsourcing crown
The Black Book of Outsourcing puts Indian IT services company at top of outsourcing pile.
By Pete Swabey
DATA PROTECTION
Businesses fear email data leakage
Half of all employees admit inappropriate emailing.
By Pete Swabey
DATA WAREHOUSING
Data warehousing market in transition
New entrants challenge old hands for market dominance
By Pete Swabey
CO-LOCATION
Mid-sized businesses demand co-location
One in every two medium-sized businesses will have significant co-location requirements in 2008
By Pete Swabey
Departments
DATA CENTRE
Power-thinkers
Today's biggest data centre operators are adopting some radical practices to alleviate the power crisis, says Information Age editor, Kenny MacIver.
By Gareth Morgan
DATA PROTECTION
Fingered
The founder of biometric payment technology vendor Pay By Touch finds his own personal data under close scrutiny.
By Pete Swabey
INTERNET
Rise of the armchair army
Online activism gives a voice to the lazy
By Pete Swabey
BOOK
Align IT
Another manual for bridging the IT / business divide.
By Pete Swabey
DATA PROTECTION
The return of the ID card debate
The UK Government’s embarrassing loss of 25 million citizens’ personal details has reignited the ID card debate
By Pete Swabey
BOOK
IT Risk
MIT research fellow and Gartner analyst present a framework for strategic IT security.
By Pete Swabey
Also with this issue
ECO-RESPONSIBILITY IN IT 2007
IT takes responsibility
The IT industry is transforming from being an ecological pariah to a leading light.
By Gareth Morgan
ECO RESPONSIBILITY IN IT 2007
Environmental burdens
Enthusiasm for green technology suffers under the weight of regulation
By Gareth Morgan
Back issues
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
