The proliferation of virtualisation in the data centre has created a daunting systems management challenge that threatens the technology’s proven benefits
VMware and the virtual data centre operating system
Software-as-a-service and cloud computing herald a seismic shift in the security industry’s business model, promising to radically change the relationship between vendors and customers – and reshape the industry
IT budget pressures are forcing many organisations to abandon plans to replace their antiquated but critical applications. Can modernisation of that legacy code offer a stopgap?
Strategies for creating greater business value with leaner IT resources. An Information Age Research Report produced in partnership with Affiniti
How should IT leaders be responding to the current ‘great recession of 2008/09/10...’? Information Age asks British Airways CIO, Paul Coby
How UK government portal Directgov embraced the mission to create a one-stop shop for citizen information and processes
E-commerce operator iForce has deployed advanced business intelligence to keep abreast of the recession-challenged retail market
Gartner's gloomy predictions for IT spending in 2009 were corroborated by financial results from Oracle, Accenture and on a more positive note, Red Hat
The once-mighty continued to fall in March 2009, making for some fire-sale M&A deals in the technology sector
Mid-market business applications giant argues that private ownership protects it from the survivalist tactics of public companies
Search technology vendor eyes up legal and compliance sectors
Open source content management provider hopes to capitalise on falling budgets
The industry is now officially contracting
IT sector news digest for March 2009
The rising complexity - along with convenience - of virtual environments brings a host of new challenges to the IT department, says Information Age editor Kenny MacIver
IBM has published an Open Cloud Manifesto to promote interoperability in the cloud computing era. But not everyone is getting behind it
The many burdens of a religious leader include frequent cyber attack, as the Dalai Lama recently discovered
A damning report on the legality - or otherwise - of UK public sector databases has introduced human rights issues to the data debate
Dramatic boost in open source adoption
IT contactors overpaid, says report
Call centres early adopters of unified comms
Storage revenues increasing steadily, says Gartner
Cloud computing spending leaps 21%
UK sees 'surge' in foreign IT workers
Green IT need not be as complex as it is often made out to be, writes Gary Hird in his book Green IT in Practice: How One Company is Approaching the Greening of its IT.
A taxonomy of CIOs, cross-sector collaboration on cyber crime, cloud migration, Q&A: US Department of Defense
End user computing, Advanced Message Queueing Protocol, Cloud Security 2011, London Conference on Cyber Security
The organisational impact of social collaboration, IT in waste management, disrupting the content delivery network industry, Q&A: Thomson Reuters
Does SaaS threaten CIO control?, commercialising open data, the UK's Internet of Things industry, Q&A: Experian
Integrating risk with customer and finance data, The Future of the Data Centre, Q&A: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The mobile executive, IT-CMF in action, data centre security, how the Macmillan Cancer Support manages information across multiple channels
Mobile payments, call centre management, Research report: security adoption, Q&A: Accenture CIO
What is big data?, the right to be forgotten, IT outsourcing in the energy sector, Q&A – Salvation Army UK
Cyber security skills, web applications, Managing IT Cost Effectively 2011, Q&A: Birmingham Airport
11 IT innovations for 2011, Information Age innovation awards, Global Tech Report 2011, testing the IT infrastructure for London Olympics 2012
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