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Information Management

The great integration

Pete Swabey

How the financial services industry is integrating risk with everything

Management & Skills

Banking on change

At Information Age’s latest roundtable debate, delegates discussed the IT implications of the upheaval facing the retail banking sector

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Centre of attention

Hal Hodson

Information Age’s Future of the Data Centre 2011 examined how the sector is being reshaped by cloud computing, energy constraints and more

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Energy innovation

Presenters at the Future of the Data Centre 2011 conference discussed the practicalities of energy efficient data centre provision

Perspective

Information Management

Q&A: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Hal Hodson

The head of the scientific facility’s Petabyte Storage Group explains how the scientific community is working with and sharing huge volumes of data

Development & Integration

Upgrading the exchange

Pete Swabey

Online betting exchange Betfair is midway through an infrastructure upgrade designed to support business growth

Information Management

One size fits all

Pete Swabey

Understanding customer behaviour across multiple retail channels requires an integrated approach, explains Neil McGowan, IT director at JD Williams

Security & Continuity

How GfK NOP manages privacy in the digital era

The market research group's "three lenses" for managing the privacy of its subjects

Development & Integration

Putting old PCs to good use

How IT equipment donated by UK businesses is helping rural African communities develop economically

Industry

Comms & Networking

How Cisco plans to spend $500m in East London

Pete Swabey

The network equipment vendor hopes to fund entrepreneurs whose ideas can make the capital smarter and more connected. But on what condition?

The Cloud & Virtualization

Will BT’s telco roots help it win in the cloud?

Telecommunications companies have an operating model ready to go for cloud computing, but how are BT translating that into business?

The Cloud & Virtualization

VMWare has its sights set on UK government cloud

Andy Tait, once deputy director for the government's cloud initiative and now public sector pitchman for the virtualisation software giant, tells Information Age that G-Cloud is not dead

Departments

IT Services

Outsourcing to prison

Perhaps unsurprisingly, an Indian BPO services provider that puts inmates to work has yet to be inundated with orders

Management & Skills

Do CIOs have buying power?

New research has found that only 5% of CIOs can authorise IT spending on their own. What does this mean for the autonomy of IT leaders?

Business Applications

The shuttle: NASA's IT legacy

US space agency NASA oversaw its last ever space shuttle launch in July 2011, 30 years after the first shuttle took flight.

BPM spending to increase in 2011, Gartner poll finds

Businesses shun free data protection audits, says ICO

Blade servers seen as a 'mature technology'

Cloud spending to hit $9bn in 2015

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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