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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

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The rare leap from CIO to CEO

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

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The evolution of the CIO

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

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

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Information Age Index July 2008

Industry growth slows

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Progress in the SOA market

Progress Software pulls together the independent SOA infrastructure industry

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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

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Month in review

The top stories from the IT industry in June 2008

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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

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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.

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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

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Rise in business process outsourcing

New economies will boost the BPO industry

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The zen and the art of email management

How to look after your 'digital health'

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Career upgrades

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

Events

Future of the Data Centre 08

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