Information Age Magazine | July 2008

8 February 2012

Features

Information Management

The new line up for ECM

Four types of vendor are emerging in the ECM market – survivors, innovators, gorillas and open-source champions

Development & Integration

The Agile revolution

How a radical rethink of development processes has aligned software with the business

Magazine

The rare leap from CIO to CEO

It is paradoxically a lack of ambition that makes some CIOs perfect candidates for the top spot

Magazine

The evolution of the CIO

The IT leader of tomorrow must have the skills to manage collaboration, innovation and change

Perspective

Security & Continuity

Securely speaking

Two newly launched services are about to bring voice verification technology into the mainstream

Security & Continuity

The business partner risk

Business partners should be regarded as the greatest security headache, according to recent research

Information Management

Unifying a media empire

Virgin Media was faced with integrating 24 different databases following a flurry of mergers and acquisitions

Development & Integration

Underwritten rules

Specialist insurer Hiscox has used rules management to overcome the complexity of operating across multiple channels

Industry

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Information Age Index July 2008

Industry growth slows

Magazine

Progress in the SOA market

Progress Software pulls together the independent SOA infrastructure industry

Magazine

Accenture's battle of many fronts

Global consultancy warns of coming competition from emerging economies. Plus, Oracle sees profit in consolidation, not software-as-a-service

Management & Skills

Coremetrics prepares for IPO

Undaunted by free services, web analytics pursues offline integration ahead of floatation

Security & Continuity

RIM touts BlackBerry’s uncrackability

The Indian goverment's loss is businesses' gain

The Cloud & Virtualization

EMC maps out storage directions

Storage giant speaks of the coming Flash memory revolution

Magazine

Month in review

The top stories from the IT industry in June 2008

Departments

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David Caminer: The World’s first systems analyst

The software pioneer who passed away in June 2008

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The dangers of cloud computing

Report calls for businesses to wake up to the security challenges of using Internet-based computing services

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Data centre ghost town

A surprising lack of data centre real estate deals have been seen in London so far this year

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Technology idol

An online popularity contest for technology vendor CEOs reveals who is liked by their employees - and who is despised

Magazine

Innovation to the Core

A review of Peter Skarzynski & Rowan Gibson guide to innovation in business

IT Services

The War for Wealth

Award-winning journalist Gabor Steingart's reappraisal of globalisation reviewed

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Microsoft 2.0

Mary Jo Foley's new book on the future of the world's most famous software company reviewed

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One in three IT workers snoop through confidental data

IT workers are using their privileged access to systems to examine secret corporate data.

Magazine

Security sector growth at 20%

Corporate data security is at the forefront of many minds, judging from the sterling performance of the security software sector

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Blade systems lead server sales

Blade servers are pushing increased sales in the server sector

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Flexible working still not accepted

Working outside normal hours (and at home) is still not acceptable in many workplace cultures, according to a survey of IT workers.

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Generation Y not self-obsessed, says study

The Gen Y's work ethic isn't as poor as popularly thought, says a new study

Magazine

Rise in business process outsourcing

New economies will boost the BPO industry

Magazine

The zen and the art of email management

How to look after your 'digital health'

Magazine

Career upgrades

CIOs and CTOs know too much to make CEO, says Information Age editor Kenny Maciver

Also in this issue...

Events

Future of the Data Centre 08

Data centre imperatives. A report from Information Age's Future of the Data Centre conference

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