Information Age

25 May 2012

Features

Magazine

The virtualisation experience

Complete this five minute survey on the challenges of virtualisation and you could win an HD-ready flat screen TV

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Lean green machine

Building the environmentally-friendly desktop device

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Green IT in action

Green IT is a tangle of technology, branding, power bills, climate politics and public perception. But some CIOs are making progress – and without impacting the bottom line

The Cloud & Virtualization

Antidote to data cloning

Deduplication is the hottest technology in storage, promising to purge bloated databases and bulging email servers

IT Services

Infosys - The human pyramid

The Indian IT pioneer is grappling with the challenge of changing from service provider to an innovative business partner

IT Services

The Offshore 2.0 debate

Information Age readers discuss the challenge of fostering strategic partnerships with service providers

IT Services

Liquid innovation at Scottish Water

The utility provider's outsourcing partners are expected to deliver on innovation

IT Services

Offshore 2.0

Organisations are now looking to their sourcing partners for technology and business process innovation

Perspective

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

A virtual operation

How the Royal College of Physicians used virtualisation to cut its hardware requirements by four-fifths

Information Management

Scoring from outside the inbox

Tottenham Hotspur FC uses automated archiving to avoid relegation to the email second division.

Development & Integration

The main event

Banking giant Citigroup begins to see the benefits of implementing an event-driven architecture

Industry

Magazine

Information Age Index May 2008

Industry growth falling back

Magazine

VMware brings automomic computing closer to reality

Plus, Accenture reveals the breath of its vertical divisions

Magazine

Overseas success for US IT giants

As US companies turn to the emerging economies to drive growth, in Europe Germany is providing interesting new opportunities, while France and the UK remain challenging markets

Magazine

Informatica expands its integration repertoire

Independent data-integration vendor pushes at the boundaries of functionality

IT Services

EDS buy to reshape Hewlett-Packard

Analysing Hewlett Packard's $13 billion acquisition of Texan IT services giant EDS

Business Applications

SAP closes the gaps around ERP

Application maker expands product range to plug the gaps between analysis and execution, and between organisations

Magazine

Month in review

The top stories from the IT industry in May 2008

Departments

Magazine

“Consolidation in the IT services industry is throttling competition”

As the number of IT services providers capable of global or large-scale governmental projects steadily declines, are the remaining few becoming too powerful?

Security & Continuity

Stats entertainment – Squatters’ wrongs

Tracking malicious cyber-squatters

Magazine

Genetic computers a little bit closer

Bacteria could one day be used in a computing platform

Magazine

Latency concerns are driving IT spending in the finance sector

Latency is critical to the finance industry, particulary securities traders, with nine out of every 10 planning to invest in reducing it.

Magazine

Worldwide surge in demand for IT services

IT services are increasingly in demand, although big players like IBM still take most of the pot

Magazine

Business continuity not up to scratch

Mid-market businesses are failing to adequately ensure business continuity, according to security company Activity

Magazine

Universities are failing to teach security education, say experts

Security education in the IT degrees of UK universities has been found wanting, according to a report by the Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network

Magazine

Data centre building boom

Companies are building and expanding data centres despite economic gloom

Magazine

Enterprise adopting Vista slower than expected

Adoption of Windows Vista has been much slower than expected among businesses.

Magazine

A higher plane

Perceptions of India's low-cost economy are being challenged

Also in this issue...

Magazine

Return on technology

The economics of IT value creation. A research report from Information Age, in association with KPMG

Events

Business Intelligence 08

Creating the intelligent enterprise. A report from Information Age's Business Intelligence 08 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