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Management & Skills

Unlocking IT budgets

How new IT financing models are opening corporate wallets

IT Services

South Africa's offshore appeal

South Africa is challenging India as an offshore BPO destination. But does the business case stand up?

Development & Integration

The integration imperative

The current economic pressures have put renewed focus on the critical role of data integration in business and technology consolidation

Management & Skills

Q&A - Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice CIO Andrew Gay talks to Information Age about why so many government IT projects go wrong record, the challenges of protecting private data and how IT can better engage with the business

Comms & Networking

Trapped in the Matrix

Social networking is anything but benign, says one financial sector executive, who found herself locked in FaceBook hell, assaulted by malicious misinformation

IT Services

Clouds of caution

Software-as-a-service and cloud computing have piqued the interest of many businesses, but as guests at the latest Information Age Roundtable Debate heard, some concerns refuse to go away

Information Management

Content détente

The enterprise content management industry has a deserved reputation for fierce competition, vendor lock-in and poor interoperability. So why are all the big players (finally) talking about cooperation, openness and standards?

IT Services

Clearing the services fog

Under pressure to deliver much greater transparency of costs, IT service providers are vying to build sophisticated catalogues, observes Paul Michaels of Metri

Magazine

Month in review

The current economic pressures have put renewed focus on the critical role of data integration in business and technology consolidation

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

IT sector bites down on painful medicine

Janaury 2009 saw a tidal wave of redundancies from IT vendors as the fallout from the fourth quarter of 2008 hit their balance sheets

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Clouds merging

Sun Microsystems and EMC both boosted their cloud computing strategies with acquisitions in January 2009

IT Services

Satyam scandal leaves cloud over Indian IT

Customers in limbo as corruption-hit outsourcer seeks a new owner

Business Applications

Epicor survives corporate maelstrom

Mid-range ERP provider battered but unbowed by difficult 2008

Information Management

Autonomy sets a pace of its own

UK search vendor bucks the trend with US acquisition and ambitious growth plan

Magazine

Information Age Index January 2009

Industry growth falls off a cliff

Management & Skills

The cash-rich meet the cash-strapped

IT giants are turning to zero percent financing to encourage cash-strapped businesses to spend, says Information Age editor Kenny MacIver

Comms & Networking

Reactions to Digital Britain

A report from the UK’s communications minister divided opinion without making much in the way of concrete commitment

Bad software lets Australian criminals off the hook

The occupation of Jacqui Smith's inbox

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

'We're doing more with less,' say data centre managers

Data centre managers are struggling to meet increased user expectations with fewer and fewer resources

Legitmate sites hijacked

IT managers cynical about Green IT

IT salaries not so gloomy

IT budgets stagnate

Virtualisation creates confusion

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Book review - 'Green IT'

Green IT has been lurking near the top of the hype charts – and in many cases, the CIO agenda – for the past two years, so it was only a matter of time before books about it began to flood onto the business bookshelves.