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Comms & Networking

A moving platform

Pete Swabey

Why the increasing use of smartphones to support business applications calls for strategic thinking

Comms & Networking

Putting the iPad to work 

How one furniture retailer has found a business use case for Apple's tablet device

Comms & Networking

Augmented reality’s gradual progression

The technology's development resembles the evolution of the web, says Layar's Maarten Lens-FitzGerald

Information Management

Living in memory

Jessica Twentyman

Will in-memory databases entirely replace their disk-based forebears? 

Information Management

Dancing with elephants

Database technology veteran Michael Stonebraker on why his latest venture is an open source, in-memory, transactional database

Information Management

Steps to success

Daniel Shane

Eight ways to improve the security, reliability and value of corporate information through data governance

Build a business case

Set up a data council

Appoint a council leader

Prioritise projects

Sell the bigger picture

Assert common definitions

Automate where possible

Measure success

Perspective

Management & Skills

A problem exposed

Pete Swabey

The recession revealed serious issues in IT cost management, issues that still need to be addressed even if economic conditions improve

Comms & Networking

Sent from above

Does Europe need satellite broadband to provide Internet access for everyone?

Management & Skills

Think bigger

Businesses must learn to adopt a broader range of technologies if they are to innovate, says analyst and author Vinnie Mirchandani

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Open space

Daniel Shane

Why US space agency NASA contributed its self-built private cloud technology to an open source project

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

A data centre on ice

Managing the University of Wisconsin’s Antarctic IT facility is an exercise in making do with limited resources

Industry

IT Services

Indian IT sector back in business

Pete Swabey

Recent financial reports from the Indian IT outsourcing sector’s biggest names suggest that the industry gradually bouncing back

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Cultural concerns cloud acquisition potential

As a Japanese telco prepares to take over a South African IT services provider, analysts ask whether cultural differences might undermine the deal. Plus, can Adobe sell enterprise software?

Business Applications

Ex-Micro Focus CEO reappears as CloudApps director

Stephen Kelly buys into carbon management software-as-a-service provider, arguing that green tech could be an area where "the UK leads the world"

Information Management

OpenGamma aims open source model at financial markets

The UK-based start up has built a analytics and risk management platform for financial trading

Information Management

Talis sees semantic web penetrate the enterprise

Library software provider's decision to branch out into 'linked data' is beginning to pay off, says chief technology officer Ian Davis

Departments

Management & Skills

A tale of two CEO scandals

Daniel Shane

Two of the IT industry’s most powerful men landed in hot water this summer but the repercussions felt by each were very different

Comms & Networking

Not so neutral after all?

A policy proposal from search giant Google and US telecommunications operator Verizon has scandalised proponents of net neutrality

Open source take-up to soar, says study

Users struggling 'to make sense' of open data

European IT funding soars 69%

IT outsourcing growth slows, research shows

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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