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Development & Integration

The third way

Combining on-demand software with on-premise code might prove to be the most powerful software paradigm yet. But the blend will not be without its difficulties

Security & Continuity

Riding the storm

Hurricane Katrina was the US’s most costly natural disaster ever; and companies like Interior Exterior Building Supply found out just how ill prepared they were

Staying afloat

Crossed wires

Information Management

Polk position

Vehicle information specialist Polk has refined its data quality by switching from a mainframe to a grid system

Business Applications

GameStop guns for growth

Single instance of business apps to support international expansion at games retailer.

Development & Integration

Leader in the field

BT streamlines customer call-outs with SOA

Security & Continuity

The ID dilemma

Protecting customers’ online identities while preserving the convenience of online transactions is a major business challenge

Security & Continuity

The politics of security

Cross-bench peer Lord Erroll gives Information Age the inside scoop on the controversial Personal Internet Security report

Magazine

The death of the PDA is looming

Long live the smart phone

Magazine

Mid-sized businesses demand co-location

One in every two medium-sized businesses will have significant co-location requirements in 2008

Information Management

Data warehousing market in transition

New entrants challenge old hands for market dominance

Magazine

Businesses fear email data leakage

Half of all employees admit inappropriate emailing.

Magazine

HCL Technologies takes outsourcing crown

The Black Book of Outsourcing puts Indian IT services company at top of outsourcing pile.

Magazine

Global index hits four-year high

Industry index for November

The Cloud & Virtualization

Dell buys for the future

Dell acquires a storage vendor and a SaaS desktop management provider to recapture its former glory.

Comms & Networking

Cisco spooks Wall Street with credit-crunch caution

Networking giant's credit-crunch caution sees shares plunge. Plus, BEA's celebrity shareholder learns a secret.

Magazine

Month in review

A round-up of November 2007's biggest stories from the IT sector.

Magazine

IBM ISS sets out to quell security industry turmoil

IBM's $1.5 billion investment in a unified security platform.

Information Management

Information Builders unfazed by BI feeding frenzy

Innovation still drives the independent BI market, says CEO Gerry Cohen.

Magazine

IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion

Business intelligence industry rapidly disappearing.

Magazine

Align IT

Another manual for bridging the IT / business divide.

Security & Continuity

IT Risk

MIT research fellow and Gartner analyst present a framework for strategic IT security.

Magazine

Fingered

The founder of biometric payment technology vendor Pay By Touch finds his own personal data under close scrutiny.

Magazine

Rise of the armchair army

Online activism gives a voice to the lazy

Security & Continuity

The return of the ID card debate

The UK Government’s embarrassing loss of 25 million citizens’ personal details has reignited the ID card debate

Magazine

Power-thinkers

Today's biggest data centre operators are adopting some radical practices to alleviate the power crisis, says Information Age editor, Kenny MacIver.

Management & Skills

Environmental burdens

Enthusiasm for green technology suffers under the weight of regulation

Management & Skills

IT takes responsibility

The IT industry is transforming from being an ecological pariah to a leading light.