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Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Managing virtualised infrastructure

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

Cisco and the X86 mainframe

Security & Continuity

The devolution of security

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

Business Applications

Living with legacy apps

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?

Management & Skills

Optimising operational IT

Strategies for creating greater business value with leaner IT resources. An Information Age Research Report produced in partnership with Affiniti

Optimising Operational IT - survey findings

Optimising Operational IT - industry context

Management & Skills

Q&A: British Airways

How should IT leaders be responding to the current ‘great recession of 2008/09/10...’? Information Age asks British Airways CIO, Paul Coby

Information Management

Citizen-oriented architecture

How UK government portal Directgov embraced the mission to create a one-stop shop for citizen information and processes

Business Applications

The intelligent warehouse

E-commerce operator iForce has deployed advanced business intelligence to keep abreast of the recession-challenged retail market

Business Applications

Signs of decline

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

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Credit crunch ignites fire-sale acquisitions in the IT sector

The once-mighty continued to fall in March 2009, making for some fire-sale M&A deals in the technology sector

Business Applications

Infor weathers downturn in private

Mid-market business applications giant argues that private ownership protects it from the survivalist tactics of public companies

Information Management

Recommind tunes into the discovery channel

Search technology vendor eyes up legal and compliance sectors

Information Management

Hunger for open source triggers Alfresco growth

Open source content management provider hopes to capitalise on falling budgets

IT Services

Month in review

IT sector news digest for March 2009

Information Management

Information Age Index April 2009

The industry is now officially contracting

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Preparing for a virtual future

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

IT Services

Reactions to IBM's 'Open Cloud Manifesto'

IBM has published an Open Cloud Manifesto to promote interoperability in the cloud computing era. But not everyone is getting behind it

Security & Continuity

Divine virus protection

The many burdens of a religious leader include frequent cyber attack, as the Dalai Lama recently discovered

Information Management

Digital rights

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 

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Book review: Green IT in Practice

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.