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The Effective IT Report 2009

Effective belt-tightening

The IT agenda has shifted from effective busines growth to effective belt-tightening, says Information Age editor Kenny MacIver

Effective IT Survey 2009: key findings

The Effective IT Survey 2009 finds the preferred strategies of IT leaders largely unchanged, but cost-cutting is clearly on the cards

Architecture

SOA becomes part of the furniture

The Effective IT Survey 2009 found service-oriented architecture adoption on the rise. But has the concept begun to lose its salience?

Agile payback

The adoption of Agile programming methods has proved one of the most effective and popular strategies of the past year

The year of the cloud

Cloud computing may still be immature, but some early adopters are convinced it is the future of IT – and the recession can only accelerate take-up of the new model

Platforms

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The Green IT dilemma

The Green IT discussion has moved on from ‘save the planet’ to ‘save the organisation money’, with the common denominator: use less energy

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Pressure in the data centre

The credit crunch has only added to the economic pressures facing data centre managers. Luckily, there are a wide range of alternative approaches

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Virtualisation's unfolding complexity

Virtualisation entered its difficult second year of mainstream adoption in 2008, but the fundamental benefits it offers remain unchanged

Managing IT

The security sector has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons during the past year. But behind the stories of lost data, fraud and phishing is a sector coping well with an ever-growing level of threat

Business Applications

The appeal of open source

Open source stands to benefit in the current economic climate as a low-cost alternative to proprietary software

Management & Skills

Service management: Viva la evolution

The IT-business gap may be far from closed, but the gradual evolution of service management is making significant progress

Information management

The Cloud & Virtualization

Lean storage

Organisations are looking to a raft of innovations to take the cost out of storage

Information Management

Search takes centre stage

Enterprise search is growing fast, but it has yet to prove whether it is an add-on feature of content management or a technology category in its own right

Information Management

The shifting sands of ECM

The sprawling ECM sector is going through major upheaval, driven by consolidation, specialisation and innovation

Information Management

BI takes on a critical role

Organisations are looking to business intelligence to help navigate them through tougher economic times

Communications & collaboration

Comms & Networking

Mobile wars

As a productivity booster, mobile working has proved its worth. But the struggle for leadership in the smartphone market is only just beginning

Comms & Networking

Users demand comms unification

Corporate adoption of unified communications is finally progressing beyond voice-over-IP. And the demand is coming from an unlikely source: the users themselves

Comms & Networking

Social understanding

The benefits of using Web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise are now well defined, but adoption has still been slow

Services & skills

Management & Skills

Skill portents

The availability of IT skills in the next decade may be impaired by the actions of businesses hoping to survive the coming year

IT Services

The new economics of outsourcing

The global map of IT outsourcing is growing more sophisticated, with onshore, nearshore and offshore destinations all playing a role

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