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Security & Continuity

Away from prying eyes

Businesses and government struggle to handle private data safely. Now two new industry initiatives offer some sorely needed guidance

Information Management

Navigating eDiscovery

A predicted boom in litigation and regulatory cases, together with heavy bills from legal outsourcers, is fuelling the rise of eDiscovery technology as companies take matters into their own hands

Management & Skills

Breaking new ground

All the rage among IT departments, the service management approach is catching on in other divisions of the business

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Pressure release

As Information Age’s recent Future of the Data Centre 2009 conference heard, the multi-year, multi-faceted focus on addressing ‘the crisis in the data centre’ is beginning to bear fruit

Information Management

The true value of enterprise IT

A new report from Deloitte argues that 40 years of enterprise IT have failed to improve business performance. But focussing on 'knowledge flow', it argues, can change that

Management & Skills

Why good projects go bad

Insuring software companies and IT consultants against being sued for project failure has given Hiscox some insight in how to pre-empt disaster

Business Applications

Keeping the Netherlands on track

Optimisation software helps Netherlands Rail manage the busiest railway network in the EU

The Cloud & Virtualization

A mountain of video

How the British Board of Film Classification tackled the challenge of upgrading its collection of 160,000 recordings to a digital format

IT Services

The mind supply

S Ramadorai, CEO of Indian IT services provider TCS, on jobs, talent and what inspires young Indians

Comms & Networking

More caution than optimism

Business is still firmly headed in one direction for much of the IT sector, but there are pockets of positivity

Comms & Networking

To the winner the spoils

EMC and NetApp's battle for deduplication provider Data Domain finally reached a conclusion in July 2009, while Nortel’s dissolution continued apace

Comms & Networking

Cable&Wireless returns from the wilderness

Cable&Wireless, the British teleco responsible for providing telegraph links between the various colonies of the British Empire, is set for a comeback.

Business Applications

Citrix offers free tools to grow mindshare

Application infrastructure provider Citrix broadens its horizons

Development & Integration

Tibco offers to help the enterprise control the cloud

Tibco is hoping to form a bridge between the enterprise and the cloud

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Progress Software moves towards united front

IT infrastructure vendor Progress Software has taken a maverick approach to company integration

Information Management

Private problems

Firms are being compelled to take privacy seriously, argues Pete Swabey

Information Management

Would you trust Google with your health?

A Tory think tank believes companies such as Google and Microsoft could be entrusted with public healthcare data

Management & Skills

Assault and laptop batteries

Operating a PC could be more dangerous than it seems, according to scientific research in the US

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Exposing the green offenders

Computer manufacturers damned in Greenpeace Green IT report 

Development & Integration

Recovery tipped for tech sector

Forrester says the technology sector will be on the road to recovery by the final quarter of 2009

Social media investments failing to deliver

One in three admins light-fingered

Storage market shrinks

Security industry shows high growth

PC shipments better than estimates

Business intelligence thrives in recession