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Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The virtual engine room

Stephen Pritchard

Driven by the need for greater returns on IT investment, businesses are beginning to apply virtualisation technology to production systems.

RLAM upgrades server capacity through virtualisation

Virtualisation unearths cost savings at construction giant

Management & Skills

Agile in the enterprise

Pete Swabey

The Agile methodology is becoming mainstream in the world of software development, but it can still clash with corporate culture

Agile and ITIL are 'complementary partners'

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Preview | Global Technology Review 2010

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Information Age’s Global Technology Review 2010, previewed here, details one of the IT industry’s toughest years

Perspective

Management & Skills

Q&A | The new BBC technology strategy

Chief technology officer John Linwood explains how its new strategy will help the corporation address its technology challenges

Comms & Networking

College overcomes mobile blackspot with voice-over-WLAN

When an architectural oversight blocked all mobile communications at Hertford Regional College’s new facilities, it decided to route mobile calls over its wireless LAN 

Information Management

Business intelligence helps BAT reach global understanding

British American Tobacco deployed a global BI platform to achieve a common definition of its business

Industry

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

IT recovery kicks in at last, but not for all

Daniel Shane

There was evidence to suggest the IT recession is unofficially over in the industry’s financial reports for January, but also hints that difficult times are far from over

Information Management

MDM key to IT recovery, acquisitions suggest

Master data management (MDM) is poised to become one of 2010’s critical technologies, as reflected in January’s acquisition activity

Business Applications

oneDrum’s bold bid to sew the fabric of collaboration

Even as IBM showcases its online collaboration suite, one UK start-up hopes to bring cloud-like collaboration to traditional applications with peer-to-peer technology

Information Management

Information explosion drives explosive growth for Datanomic

UK data quality provider Datanomic celebrates fourth year of triple digit growth as businesses wrestle to make sense of their oceanic supplies of data

Comms & Networking

ShoreTel runs among the UC giants

The demise of Nortel has helped unified communications veteran grow marketshare, but there is still plenty of formidable competition in the space

Departments

IT Services

BSkyB's legal victory 'will force outsourcers to be more honest'

Pete Swabey

Does the landmark ruling against the IT services supplier mean the days of overpromising in project pitches are over?

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

IBM & Intel top ethical business index

Green activities win Big Blue 'most ethical business' accolade

Unified communications market to hit $1bn by 2013

IT assets 'to disappear' as cloud takes off

Mobile cloud computing to explode, study finds

Number of smartphone security apps to soar

Comms & Networking

Book Review: Red Wired - China's Internet Revolution

An in-depth and compelling analysis of the Chinese Internet explosion by Sherman So and J Christopher Westland

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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