Features

IT MANAGEMENT
Living without an IT director
Fundamental change in the way IT is  delivered is encouraging companies to dispense with IT management
By Kenny MacIver

BIOMETRICS
Biometric diversity
Introducing a host of innovations that use unusual human characteristics to confirm identity
By Michelle Price

WIMAX
Crunch time for WiMax

It is put-up or shut-up time for WiMax, the far-reaching wireless communications technology
By Gareth Morgan

Perspective

SECURITY
Anti-virus vendors: Fighting a losing battle
Anti-virus vendors are struggling to keep up with the new malware methods
By Michelle Price

GREEN IT
Energising the Green IT debate
Two new reports on power consumption highlight the urgent need for greater energy efficiency in IT
By Gareth Morgan

DEVELOPMENT
Content-centric applications
IT leaders are getting to grips with building content-centric business applications
By Gareth Morgan

Q&A
European Central Bank
IT director Magi Clave explains how IT has been a key enabler of European monetary union.
By Michelle Price

SECURITY
Strong authentication pays off at Advanced Payment Solutions
The pre-paid card retailer has deployed a sophisticated authentication model in order to protect its B2B clients and their customers
By Michelle Price

E-COMMERCE
Automated e-marketing at online retailer Pixmania
Developing its own market analysis tools has helped drive business growth at online electronics retailer Pixmania
By Pete Swabey

ANALYTICS
Crowd-pleasing analytics
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s data analysis project helps draw in the crowds
By Jessica Twentyman

Industry

MONTH IN REVIEW
Month in review
All the top stories from January 2008, from HM Revenue and Customs' crashing tax site to Microsoft's $44.6 billion overture to Yahoo
By Gareth Morgan

INTERNET
Microsoft searches out new battlefronts
Software giant gives Google a piece of its own medicine with Yahoo advances
By Gareth Morgan

SECURITY
Kaspersky Lab lifts the iron curtain
Russian security vendor to launch on the London Stock Exchange
By Michelle Price

GRID
Platform Computing resists a virtual opportunity
Still focused on super computers, says CEO
By Pete Swabey

FINANCIAL REPORT
No signs of downturn from industry giants - yet
The much-predicted economic downturn has yet to manifest in the financial results of the tech industry's biggest names
By Pete Swabey

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
BEA finally caves to Oracle's advances
Meanwhile, Microsoft picks up enterprise search player FAST
By Pete Swabey

Departments

IT DELIVERY
Life in the new world
The fact that Deutsche Bank is seriously considering switching its email over to Google shows that the cloud computing model has miiense disruptive potential
By Kenny MacIver

NETWORKING
“Super switches are the future of corporate computing”
Cisco leads the way in introducing a new model for the corporate data centre
By Gareth Morgan

WELL-BEING
Unhappiness in the IT sector
The IT professional’s lot, it seems, is not a happy one
By Gareth Morgan

INTERNET
Executive online productivity killers
Chairmen of the bored
By Gareth Morgan

MARKETING
Measuring brand popularity online
PR company tracks 'word of mouse'
By Pete Swabey

ENTERPRISE SEARCH
Autonomy searching for a fight
Unfazed by market consolidation, enterprise search vendor belittles Google's appliance
By Pete Swabey

TRENDS
IT pay unchanged through 2007
Plus, money not key factor for IT candidates
By Pete Swabey

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Tech M&A deals rise in value
...but overall volume down in 2007
By Pete Swabey

OUTSOURCING
Demand for outsoucring to slow
India's market share to shrink
By Pete Swabey

Also in this issue...

RESEARCH REPORT
Data Governance
Protecting and exploiting a key business asset. An Information Age Research Report sponsored by DataFlux
By Michelle Price

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