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Information Management

The open enterprise

Social and technological change is forcing business to become more transparent

ASDA launches transparency strategy

Management & Skills

Qualified privelege

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

Security & Continuity

Maturing threats

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

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

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The IT industry's long road to recovery

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

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