Information Age

24 May 2012

Introduction

Magazine

Skills assessment

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on why software skills matter

Magazine

Charting success

Virtualisation garners the accolades in this year’s Effective IT Survey, while open-source falls out of favour

Magazine

The state of the art

Information Age editor Kenny MacIver introduces the Effective IT 2008 Report

Platforms and architectures

The Cloud & Virtualization

Storage pressures

Storage priorities are changing: on top of the constant requirement for ever more capacity, there is intense pressure for greater efficiency

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Wider options on the desktop

The front line of IT used to come in a single flavour, but the variety of configurations now possible on the desktop allows organisations to make some strategy choices

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The new data centre

As the subject of energy use moves ever higher on the IT agenda, efficiency has become the watchword for data centre operations

Development & Integration

The new architecture

Between virtualisation and SOA, the foundations for a flexible IT infrastructure are now in place

Agile, rich software

Development & Integration

Developing world

Software development is reaching new levels of professionalism and business responsiveness

Development & Integration

At your service

Service-oriented architecture is proving its potency – but only when fully embraced and aligned with the business

Management strategies

Security & Continuity

Securing the future

Central identity management systems are now a chief priority, but biometric technologies continue to disappoint

Security & Continuity

Continuity pressures

Many organisations are now looking to diversify their risk of down time and operational disruption by utilising a range of remote hosting services

IT Services

ITIL upgraded

ITIL version 3 seeks to bring the service management guidelines to a wider audience

Development & Integration

Towards business alignment

IT organisations are striving to close the gap between themselves and the business. So which approaches work?

Information management

Information Management

Beyond ECM

Enterprise content management is delivering major business benefits on multiple fronts. But technological and structural changes are sweeping through the sector

Information Management

BI's winning ways

As well as decision-driven applications, end-users are increasingly demanding analytical data delivered on demand

Information Management

Creating data unity

Master data management technology is being touted as a means of building a gold standard for enterprise data that can be used across all business applications

Information Management

Managing the life of information

By treating information in a holistic way, organisations can manage surging data storage demands and the associated costs and compliance issues

Communications and collaboration

Information Management

The collaborative effect

Collaboration technologies are on the cusp of achieving the critical mass to deliver a long-promised revolution

Information Management

Out-of-office experience

Mobile and remote working is delivering unprecedented benefits to business. But the range of new devices and ways to connect demand that managers keep tight control over their moveable assets

Comms & Networking

IP opportunity

Now the foundation for enterprise communication, Internet protocol is revolutionising working practices

Service delivery models

Business Applications

On-demand economics

Now the case for software-as-a-service is proven, best practices are needed to ensure the potential becomes reality

IT Services

Is offshoring still good value?

Doubt has arisen as to the efficacy of outsourcing low-end business processes to unfamiliar locations

IT Services

Outsourcing 2.0

Big-bang IT service contracts are being usurped by a more flexible model of utility outsourcing

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IT for the M Business

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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