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Information Management

Sensory perception

Jessica Twentyman

By combining complex event processing technology with sensors and tags, companies are finding ways to apply the analytical power of information technology to physical objects

Security & Continuity

Trusting the cloud

Daniel Shane

The information security concerns holding back the adoption of cloud computing must be addressed with selective adoption, supplier strategy and service level negotiation

Security & Continuity

Trusting the cloud: End user viewpoints

Two IT practitioners – one a cloud convert, the other a sceptic – explain their feelings about the security concerns surrounding cloud computing

Information Management

Attention to detail

Pete Swabey

Organisations are at last getting to grips with data management and vendors in the space are anticipating a bumper year. But can their tools really resolve the chronic mistrust of corporate data?

Perspective

IT Services

Q&A – Virgin Trains

Pete Swabey

The rail operator’s head of IT explains why it has renewed its decade-long outsourcing engagement with Capgemini

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The foundation of power

The complexity of the UK’s energy industry places it at the forefront of the move towards Smart Grid

Information Management

BAA hits flight speed with BPM

Business process management technology has helped accelerate through traffic at Heathrow Airport

Development & Integration

Ingres’ open source rebirth unlocks value for AAH Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical distributor has found the Ingres database better value and more forward moving since its 'commercial open source' makeover

Industry

Business Applications

Fortune favours those that acquire, financial results show

Daniel Shane

Financial results published in March 2010 revealed that those companies with the cash to make acquisitions during the downturn are in a strong position as the recovery kicks in

IT Services

Skills, not public sector IT cuts, trouble Logica

The IT services company's UK CEO is not phased by plans to slash government IT expenditure, but the supply of graduate recruitments has him concerned for the future of the economy

IT Services

Rackspace sees traditional and cloud hosting models blur

Hosting vendor Rackspace believes that the models of managed services and cloud computing are becoming harder to differentiate

Business Applications

Avanade helps its parents fill enterprise SaaS gap

The offspring of Microsoft and Accenture launches online services division to meet Salesforce.com's competition for mid-market and divisional deployments

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Microsoft intensifies bid to own the virtual desktop

Software giant has laid down its plans for taking market share from competitor VMware in the desktop virtualisation arena

Information Management

Pega acquisition unites process management with CRM

A business process management vendor seeks to capitalise on the concept of managing the customer relationship as a process

Departments

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

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