Information Age

8 February 2012

Features

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

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

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Securing virtual environments

What can organisations do to ensure virtualisation initiatives are not compromising their security regimes?

Social networking within the enterprise

Business use of social networking is fuelling a revolution in collaboration

Perspective

DHL Logistics

CIO Nigel Underwood explains how DHL completed the largest IT integration project ever undertaken in its sector

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.

The natural selection of storage

London’s Natural History Museum has a physical storage challenge like no other organisation

When the sky falls

Forced out of its offices by a collapsing building, Watson Wyatt saw its business continuity investments prove their worth

Last of the independents

Rapid consolidation in the BI market has raised questions over the future of the remaining independent vendors

Industry

HP expands information management armoury

As it bows out of identity management, Hewlett-Packard grows its IM portfolio

Oracle's financials disappoint investors looking for a hero

Meanwhile, Red Hat proves the value of open source. Plus, IT companies flee London markets

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Born-again CA tries to forge a new identity

Systems management software provider looks to product development - not just acquisition - for salvation

Cape Clear buy gives Workday integration on demand

On-demand application provider brings "integration-as-a-service" in house

IFS capitalises on globalisation

All the world's a stage for business applications provider

EMC buys a presence in European consulting

Conchango purchase continues storage giant's reinvention

Departments

Book review - The IT Value Stack

Ade McCormack's treatise on IT management reviewed

Three out of five IT staff bullied at work

Abusive management practices in the IT department adversely impact productivity

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 Europe, according to technology analyst Forrester Research.

Magazine

Outsourcing aids innovation

Outsourcing helps IT organisations focus on innovation, according to consultancy and IT services provider Capgemini’s 2008 Global CIO survey.

Magazine

Half of UK businesses sold on SOA

But do they know the risks

Information Management

Business intelligence market thickens

The business intelligence market is heading for a slowdown.

Magazine

IT immigration grows 14 percent

But new jobs still being created

Security & Continuity

Perfect crime

The global e-crime underground provides a masterclass in modern business practice

Business Applications

Inflated confidence in Zimbabwe

Misys sees a silver lining in Zimbabwe's economic collapse

Security & Continuity

Beating the cheaters

A Las Vegas security expert provides a glimpse of the techniques that casinos use to catch out cheating gamblers

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Terminal IT management

Does the staggering IT failure at Heathrow's Terminal 5 prove big bang projects never work?

Back Issues

December 2011

A taxonomy of CIOs, cross-sector collaboration on cyber crime, cloud migration, Q&A: US Department of Defense
November 2011

End user computing, Advanced Message Queueing Protocol, Cloud Security 2011, London Conference on Cyber Security
October 2011

The organisational impact of social collaboration, IT in waste management, disrupting the content delivery network industry, Q&A: Thomson Reuters
September 2011

Does SaaS threaten CIO control?, commercialising open data, the UK's Internet of Things industry, Q&A: Experian
July / August 2011

Integrating risk with customer and finance data, The Future of the Data Centre, Q&A: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
June 2011

The mobile executive, IT-CMF in action, data centre security, how the Macmillan Cancer Support manages information across multiple channels
May 2011

Mobile payments, call centre management, Research report: security adoption, Q&A: Accenture CIO
April 2011

What is big data?, the right to be forgotten, IT outsourcing in the energy sector, Q&A – Salvation Army UK
March 2011

Cyber security skills, web applications, Managing IT Cost Effectively 2011, Q&A: Birmingham Airport
February 2011

11 IT innovations for 2011, Information Age innovation awards, Global Tech Report 2011, testing the IT infrastructure for London Olympics 2012