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Management & Skills

Energy savers

Sally Whittle

Seven technologies to make business more energy efficient

Bupa reduces paper consumption with online billing

Vehicle monitoring gives First Group 10% fuel cost saving

Logica tracks efficiency initiative with energy dashboard 

King’s College London taps building energy management

Food simulant devices help BaxterStorey cut refrigeration costs

Online portals let Standard Chartered Bank employees track their energy usage

North Lanarkshire Leisure stems water waste with smart meters

Management & Skills

Collective intelligence

Pete Swabey

An emerging class of business software is built on the proposition that listening to what employees know and think can drive success

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Future of the Data Centre

Daniel Shane

When it comes to data centres, energy efficiency and cost control are one and the same thing, as delegates at Information Age’s data centre strategy conference learned

Thomson Reuters' data centre efficiency drive

The government view on the cloud

Management & Skills

Eastern bloc renews bid to become high tech hub

Daniel Shane

Russia and its former Soviet satellites are once again attempting to kick-start their information technology industries. But can government intervention drive innovation?

Comms & Networking

Fragmented platforms

As smartphones become more sophisticated, they become an increasingly pivotal pillar of business infrastructure. That makes the fragmentation of smartphone software a strategic concern for IT

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Unlocking teamwork

Pete Swabey

Rhys Lewis, chief enterprise architect at the BBC, explains how it is addressing the constraints placed on collaboration by systems architecture

Management & Skills

Fighting for flexibility

Daniel Shane

At Information Age’s latest roundtable debate, IT leaders from the financial services industry discussed why change is such a thorny issue

Information Management

Learning virtual patterns

A ‘self-learning analytics engine’ helped investment firm Baron Funds understand the performance of its virtualised IT infrastructure

Information Management

Safety in numbers

London Fire Brigade’s analytics deployment helps it to fight fires before they start

Information Management

MySpace taps big data for turnaround

As visitor traffic wanes, the social networking site has turned to massively parallel database analytics to get inside the minds of its members

Business Applications

IT spending resurgence rolls on

Daniel Shane

Improved business IT spending kept the sector's recovery rolling, but suppliers with a consumer division wrestled with a foe even more fearsome than the credit crunch

Business Applications

CDC Software buys into SaaS for global reach

China-backed application vendor is building global platform for business, says CEO Peter Yip 

Development & Integration

Software AG keeps SOA alive

Despite initial enthusiasm for service-oriented architecture having since faded, middleware vendor Software AG is still a major proponent of the design methodology

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Veeam bridges the gap between virtual rivals

Virtualisation management tools vendor hopes conflict between Microsoft and VMware will drive opportunity

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Logicalis takes the hypervisor out of the cloud

Managed services provider Logicalis is debunking the theory that virtualisation, and subsequently cloud computing, is dependent on hypervisor software

CIOs demand more from outsourcers, studies show

Energy efficiency drive will fuel UC adoption, analyst claims

BI adoption to boom in 2010, says IDC

Public sector paying 'over the odds' on IT services deals

Firms pushing applications to cloud, research claims

Private sector reluctant to join open data movement