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Management & Skills

Downturn strategies

Effective IT Report 2010 – Cost reduction was the priority in 2009, and IT strategies that helped organisations reduce their overheads grew in adoption and perceived effectiveness as a result

Management & Skills

Payback time

Effective IT Report 2010 – This year's report assessed which IT strategies were most likely to deliver return on investment and business value

Comms & Networking

Still no answer to unified communications call

Another year has gone by without the long-awaited unified communications revolution, but industry activity suggests the anticipation is still high

Business Applications

Break the application chains

Effective IT Report 2010 – On-premise software vendors must grant customers the freedom to innovate if they are to prevent an exodus to on-demand applications in 2010

Comms & Networking

Smartphones promise to further empower the mobile worker

Enabling mobile working has proved an especially effective IT strategy for many years. Now, the advent of smartphones promises to extend the power of the mobile worker yet further

Information Management

Social media's untapped potential

Effective IT Report 2010 – Social media’s growing role in society was highly visible in 2009, but in business its potential remains largely untapped

Security & Continuity

Cybercriminals exploit technology's cutting edge

From social media to distributed computing, the cybercriminal underground took full advantage of emerging technologies in 2009

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Wanted: Management tools for the virtual / cloud era

The IT industry’s enthusiasm for virtualisation and cloud computing in 2010 must give way to clear thinking, enterprise-class management tools and solid technology offerings

The Cloud & Virtualization

Storage technology becomes a hotbed of innovation

The disruptive impact of innovative technologies made the storage market one of the IT industry’s hottest sectors in 2009

Development & Integration

Open source continues its ascent

Effective IT Report 2010 – Open source software certainly has a part to play in the IT industry’s mainstream. How large a part is still unclear, however

Development & Integration

Service-oriented architecture approaches maturity

SOA was eclipsed by cloud computing as the development and integration trend of the day in 2009, but reports of its death appear to be premature

Information Management

Challenge of deriving meaning from data unbowed by recesssion

The recent hiatus in economic growth has done nothing to alleviate the challenge of understanding the ever-growing ‘digital universe’, and demand for technologies that help organisations to do so has persisted

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Cost benefits keep green IT on the agenda

Optimism and enthusiasm for the climate change agenda may have waned somewhat, but energy-efficient IT may also prove to be economically sustainable IT

IT Services

A mixed blessing for IT outsourcers

Effective IT Report 2010 – The recession intensified demand for cost-cutting measures, but the associated uncertainty curtailed long-term IT outsourcing deals. However, that may be about to change

Management & Skills

Post-recession CIO

Chief executives see IT as a driver for revenue growth as the economy recovers, but IT leaders cannot expect things to return to how they were