Information Age

8 February 2012

Features

Access guaranteed

The rate of data growth within the enterprise is forcing some radical rethinking of storage.

Nexus of innovation?

The financial services industry is struggling under the weight of three decades of technology build-up

Agile ERP

Can enterprise resource planning ever become as flexible as modern business requires?

Perspective

Spreading the gospel

The new version of ITIL takes service management beyond the IT department to the business.

Interaction

Parking the PC

NCP uses blade PC technology to take processing out of its car parks.

Online payment health check

The Royal College of Physicians enhances websites to meet new card payment standards.

Harrods hoists an IT pod

World-renowned department store puts its data centre on the roof

Industry

IT services vendors battle it out

The outsourcing market continues to grow at a rapid pace and competition is fierce as each vendor fights for a slice of the action.

Smaller vendors tighten grip on storage market

The past year has seen much movement in disk storage systems, not least of all with niche players strenthening their position in the marketplace.

Security executives face changing role

Requirement for broader management skillsets has provoked a rapid evolution in the role of security managers.

Pornography use continues to cause a stir

IT executives need to be more diligent about monitoring and controlling the information passing across their networks if they are to protect their company’s brand image, fulfil compliance obligations and avoid employee legal action.

Magazine

Innovation stifled by poor asset management

A clearer picture of software assets is needed if executives are to be able to unlock capital trapped within the business.

Magazine

Project managers lack leadership skills

IT and business managers need to brush up on their leadership skills if they are going to ensure increased project success rates.

Magazine

Security convergence

Consolidation in the security space accelerates as the giants of IT jostle for larger slices of the expanding security pie.

Magazine

Month in review

June's news reviewed.

Development & Integration

IBM shoots for development dominance

Telelogic acquisition puts IBM Rational way out ahead

Information Management

The next $1bn step in EMC’s ‘work in progress’

From high-end arrays to universal information infrastructure: re-inventing EMC.

Departments

Magazine

End of the search for a cure

As NHS IT chief Richard Granger bows out, Information Age’s editorial director Andrew Lawrence assesses his legacy.

Magazine

Flawed security

Ira Winkler offers a dubious take on the so-called philosophy of information security

Magazine

Disappointments section

Dubious legal practices exposed

Magazine

A wanted man

Magazine

Are biometrics scalable?

Plans for a European identity database will test the robustness of today’s biometric technology.

Also in this issue

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