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Information Management

What is big data?

Gareth Morgan

What the term 'big data' means, and why experts believe a new breed of technology is required to handle it

Information Management

The foundations of big data

How Google, Yahoo! and Facebook laid the ground work for 'big data' analytics

Information Management

How will the EU's 'right to forgotten' work in practice?

Stephen Pritchard

The European Commission plans to amend its Data Protection Directive to protect individuals’ ‘right to be forgotten’, but that raises a number of complex questions that have to be resolved

IT Services

Utility services

Pete Swabey

A brace of IT outsourcing deals in the energy sector reveal an industry preparing for an uncertain future

Perspective

The Cloud & Virtualization

Q&A – Salvation Army UK

CIO Martyn Croft explains how the Christian charitable organisation’s use of desktop virtualisation is evolving

Development & Integration

Monitoring the health of NHS IT

A blow-by-blow account of how NHS Connecting for Health developed a system to monitor the performance of its various outsourced IT services

Development & Integration

Show them the money

Lloyds TSB builds a web-based finance management application to improve customer engagement

Management & Skills

Louder than words

When IT engagements break down, the actions of the parties mean more than the precise wording of the contract

Industry

Information Management

Microstrategy predicts the autocracy of BI

Michael Saylor on why the iPad finally puts business intelligence into the hands of the decision makers

Security & Continuity

FireEye throws virtual decoy at advanced persistent threats

Malware protection vendor says its technology can protect against the emerging breed of cyber attack that has claimed many high profile victims

Development & Integration

SnapLogic taps Apple tactics for SaaS integration

Informatica founder Gaurav Dhillon's new company applies 'app store' model to software-as-a-service application integration

The Cloud & Virtualization

Real Status applies 3D video game technology to network visualisation

UK start-up says visualising IT infrastrucutre in three dimensions allows decisions at the speed of sight

Departments

Business Applications

SAP users generally satisfied with application performance

Most SAP users 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied' with ERP application performance, Pierre Audoin Consultants study finds

Information Management

IT pros don't believe in collaboration software

Two thirds of IT professionals surveyed by Forrester Research said collaboration software delivers "little to no benefits"

Management & Skills

Public sector IT response to budget cuts

Two recent polls canvassed public sector opinion on the impact of the budget cuts on government IT

Development & Integration

Enterprise architecture aligning to business – slowly

Gartner says enterprise architects "aspire" to enable business value, but EA projects are still overwhelmingly IT-driven

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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