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Security & Continuity

The balancing act

Traditional information security management is failing to keep businesses out of the headlines. But a risk management approach can help to balance security investment against the chances of disaster

IT Services

Developing nations

Inspired by the example of India and China, countries across the globe are now vying to become offshore IT and business process outsourcing destinations

Information Management

Database wars revisited

War has broken out between proprietary database vendors and open source alternatives, and the battleground is cost

Management & Skills

Q&A: CEVA Logistics

Peter Dew, CIO of the recently formed logistics conglomerate, explains his strategy to unite and consolidate the IT operation

Development & Integration

Accidental open source hero

Big business is taking open source seriously, says Osmosoft CEO Jeremy Ruston

Development & Integration

Many hands make software work

In the right circumstances, ‘crowdsourcing’ offers a rapid and cost-effective new approach to software testing

Security & Continuity

Bad Phorm?

The UK public is not averse to ISP-level targeted advertising per se, but do they trust any organisation enough to give them the necessary data?

Information Management

Data master class

Deploying a master data management hub saved marketing services provider CPP Group £500,000 in just eight months

Security & Continuity

Safe house

Online gaming firm bwin turned to Software Security Assurance to protect its applications from hackers, and in so doing improved its engagement with the business

Business Applications

Second round knock-outs

Three months ago, many IT companies reported their first financial quarters since the recession began in earnest. But any hope that the drubbing they received back then was a one-off was misplaced, it became clear in July

Information Management

Consolidation revisited

IBM's $1.2 billion SPSS acquisition marks a return to consolidation for the business intelligence sector. Meanwhile, McAfee buys into SaaS and Software AG acquires compatriot BPM provider IDS Scheer

IT Services

Confidence is key for Satyam’s rebirth

CEO of Mahindra Satyam, CP Gurnani, explains his plans to rebuild the company 

Security & Continuity

Panda Security attempts global domination from the cloud

Smaller security companies like Panda are turning the cloud to their own benefit

Business Applications

Agresso addresses the cost of change

Enterprise resource planning requires a long-term view, says Agresso

Development & Integration

Novell helps ISVs ignore the operating system

Accounting for different operating systems over virtualisation can be a chore for independent software developers 

Management & Skills

Is the recession driving innovation?

With alternative operating systems, open source software and cloud computing all gaining traction, technological innovation seems to be hotting up. Was an economic downturn just what the IT sector needed?

Management & Skills

Appropriate force

The recession is encouraging IT leaders to review the ways they handle issues like security

Business Applications

Bullet points

PowerPoint has many detractors, but few so ardent as retired Marine TX Hammes

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Windows 7 to boost tech economy

Every dollar spent on Windows 7 will have roll-on effects for the technology ecosystem, says IDC

Global IT spending to drop 6%, says Gartner

Employees would sacrifice pay for flexibility

Data centre industry suffers lull

Data breaches hit 7 out of 10 companies