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Information Management

The open enterprise

Pete Swabey

Social and technological change is forcing business to become more transparent

ASDA launches transparency strategy

Management & Skills

Qualified privelege

Rob Buckley

Every organisation wants skilled employees, but are IT qualifications worth the paper they are printed on?

Security & Continuity

Maturing threats

JJ Robinson

With both enterprise systems and the cybercriminal underground evolving rapidly, safeguarding information is as challenging today as it has ever been, as the Enterprise Security 09 event heard

Securing unified communications

Perspective

Management & Skills

Innovation champions

Announcing the winners of this year's Information Age Innovation Awards, as voted for by readers

Business Applications

SAP's customer connection

The business application vendor says it is listening to its customers, but many are angered by a proposed support hike and puzzled by its technology roadmap

Information Management

Building global consensus on data protection

Formerly the UK’s information commissioner, Richard Thomas is now working to develop a global agreement on how data protection and privacy should be safeguarded

Management & Skills

Aviva guides staff through restructuring with self-help HR system

UK insurer Aviva deployed a self-service HR information system to help employees through major organisational upheaval

Industry

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The IT industry's long road to recovery

Pete Swabey

If the IT industry is on the mend, a complete 360° healing process of all sectors is destined to be a long one, as November's financial performances revealed.

Comms & Networking

International relations

The IT industries of China and the US continued to merge in November 2009, and Gartner acquired AMR Research

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services put to the enterprise test

Cloud pioneer's services are being put through their paces in enterprise experiments, says CTO Werner Vogels

Comms & Networking

Cisco’s expansion opens new battle fronts

With recent additions to its portfolio including data centre solutions, office collaboration software and even consumer hadware, Cisco's partnership ecosystem is becoming rather complicated

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Compuware follows applications out of the infrastructure

Systems management vendor's new focus on application performance leads to acquisition of web app management vendor Gomez

Departments

Management & Skills

All work, no exercise for IT employees

UK IT employees are among the unhealthiest in the country, with under a fifth getting the recommended amount of exercise

Development & Integration

Microsoft's image tagging brainwave

Scientists working for Microsoft are working on a method for tagging images based on the brainwaves of individuals

Security & Continuity

The search for intelligent life cut short

An IT manager allegedly cost his organisation $1 million by using computing infrastructure for his ten-year pursuit of extra terrestrial lifeforms

Security concerns hang over cloud take-up

Recession adds value to IT department

European firms at risk of technological breakdown

Firms fail to measure outsourcing impact

Server shipments down but stabilising

Hosted web conferencing set to take off

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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