February 2011

Before transferring to a new, environmentally friendly office and a virtualised IT environment, the Co-operative Group has brought order to its application estate

Development & Integration

Fine-tuning an SOA

How Hiscox resolved the performance blind spots in its service-oriented architecture

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The model data centre

Engineering giant Arup uses data centre modelling technology to find the perfect balance of efficiency and cost

Industry

Business Applications

Global Tech Review 2011

Pete Swabey

In 2010, the IT industry returned to the business of growing while acquisition activity sprang back into life

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Hewlett Packard’s cloud contortions

HP's new “infrastructure as a service” offering reflects the precarious position mainstream enterprise IT suppliers are in thanks to cloud computing

Business Applications

Concur buys Tripit to explore the semantics of travel expenses

Expense management company acquires semantic web start-up to simplify business travel expenses

Comms & Networking

O2 and 2e2 converge in joint venture

Mobile telecommunications giant and IT services provide unite to provide 'communications integration' offerings

IT Services

Aditi sells Microsoft’s development culture back to the West

“We are probably the most Westernised Indian IT company," says product development outsourcer Aditi Technologies

Departments

IT Services

Egypt’s revolutionary impact

Pete Swabey

The former government of Egypt worked hard to promote the country as an outsourcing destination, but February’s revolution may have made businesses wary of developing nations

Security & Continuity

A hard delete

How one financial trader destroyed the contents of his hard drive, allegedly to hide the evidence of insider trading, only to be caught out on the phone

IT outsourcing "explodes into life"

Inside the cyber crime economy

Android's rise continues

Apps flying off the shelves

Comms & Networking

Book review – The Master Switch

Tim Wu's history of "information empires" brings clarity and life to the net neutrality debate

Information Management

Book review – Wikileaks

Written by two Guardian journalists, Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy is an unflattering portrayal of the transparency group's eccentric leader

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