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Development & Integration

Cloud computing in the enterprise

The economic downturn has triggered a surge in interest in cloud computing as businesses explore how they might cut costs and overheads by exploiting the revolutionary IT model

Information Management

Voyage of discovery

Take-up of enterprise search is accelerating, but its status as a stand-alone technology is still up for debate

NHS Scotland navigates an ocean of medical records

Common pitfalls beset Advantage West Midlands' search implementation

Information Management

The hunt for meaning

The semantic web may have yet to arrive, but semantic technology is already helping businesses to make sense of their information

Management & Skills

The middle way

Medium-sized businesses’ ability to deploy game-changing IT will help them withstand the recession, as delegates at Information Age’s IT for the M Business conference discovered

Fire-proof IT from Google

IWOOT's open source odyssey

Information Management

The shape of things to come

Information Age’s half-year review brings the IT industry’s financial performance and M&A activities into focus

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Green gauge

Eco-friendly IT is being edged off many company agendas as recession hits. But savvy organisations view cost cutting and being green as mutually supportive

Development & Integration

Cost-cutting conundrum

Financial services organisations are under intense pressure to cut IT costs, but many are struggling to do so without impairing future business

Business Applications

Trading in a Bear market

Consumer electronics retailer Technosila is emblematic of a new breed of Russian business: entrepreneurial, competitive and tech-savvy

Development & Integration

Accelerated monitoring

Building an enterprise messaging system for CERN, home to the world’s largest particle accelerator, was bound to be a challenge of cosmic proportions

Magazine

IT vendors suffering private problems, not crunch pangs yet

Nortel, Verisign and Dell in pickles all of their own. Plus: Salesforce.com fares well

Business Applications

IBM buys into cross-platform virtualisation

Plus, consolidation in the insurance applications market

Security & Continuity

Plan B brings virtual disaster recovery to the mid-market

A virtualised managed-service can dramatically reduce the cost of redundancy, argues vendor

Comms & Networking

BlackBerry stands up to iPhone onslaught

Enterprise server kit to help save RIM's bacon

Information Management

BT takes drastic action to protect margins

UK telco's 10,000 redundancies hit the head-lines, but the real story was a margin drop in the Global Services division

Comms & Networking

Information Age Index December 2008

The slow, steady slide in IT industry growth continues

Information Management

Month in Review

All the top IT industry stories from November 2008

IT Services

A nebulous 2009

The forecast for 2009 is cloudy, writes Information Age editor Kenny Maciver

Business Applications

'0% finance' to the rescue

Offers of interest-free loans from Microsoft, SAP and Dell to potential customers make transparent these companies’ concern that IT spending is about to stall

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Highland fling

Data centre operators are looking to Scotland with keen interest

Management & Skills

'We'll still meet goals', say IT departments

The economic crisis won't impact IT departments ability to meet project goals, according to a survey by Cisco

Tech profits 'surprising', says Forrester

Master data management shows dramatic growth

Data centres near capacity

UK companies fall behind EU in social networking

IT Services

Book review - Planet Google

Wall Street Times journalist Randall Stross examine the search giant's plans for global domination