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Comms & Networking

The social process

How social software is changing the way companies design and execute business processes

Comms & Networking

Making the invisible visible

Social network analysis can reveal the impromptu, ad-hoc business processes that really propel the enterprise

Comms & Networking

Nortel’s missed calling

The financial misfortune of telecommunications giant is reshaping the unified communications market. Could that at last trigger widespread enterprise adoption?

The Cloud & Virtualization

Flash Forward

Solid state disks are set to “revolutionise the entire storage industry”, say insiders. But what makes this high-performance alternative to spinning drives so compelling?

Comms & Networking

Next generation WANs

In the corporate connectivity landscape, a new force is promising fast, flexible and ultra low-cost bandwidth across wide area networks

Business Applications

SOA & Software as a service

Between cloud computing, SOA and software-as-a-service, businesses are spoilt for choice when it comes to applications infrastructure, as delegates at the Information Age Business Applications & Infrastructure 2009 event heard

Betting the business on SaaS

Welcome to the service department

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Across the virtual world

Desktop virtualisation has helped payments processing provider VocaLink unify its global development operations, and has brought other benefits rather closer to home

Development & Integration

Oceans of information

Maritime intelligence provider Royal Dirkzwager deploys complex event processing to prepare for impending explosion in data volumes

Security & Continuity

The on demand data fortress

KPMG Forensics deploys high security data centre facilities on an on-demand basis to handle large quantities of sensitive data

Management & Skills

Trust in technology

Having come to terms with the economic challenges facing them, many IT leaders are again turning to technology to find the solutions to pressing business problems

Information Management

IBM continues to tout data as a strategic asset

Computing giant reiterates its 'data as a strategic asset' message as revenues dip 11%

The Cloud & Virtualization

EMC looks to better times and game-changing technologies

EMC is looking to the future as its storage revenues take a beating in the recession

Information Management

Compliance pain is Open Text’s gain

Open Text expanding rapidly oon the back of booming demand for compliance technologies

Security & Continuity

Kaspersky Lab shrugs off cloudy competition

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of the Russian anti-virus vendor, tells Information Age how his company has benefited from Soviet-era investment in education

Comms & Networking

People, process, technology

IT’s ability to address the needs of the people involved in any project has to date been limited.

Management & Skills

MP's expenses and the e-government agenda

The British public’s renewed mistrust of the political classes, triggered by the parliamentary expenses scandal, may re-energise the e-government agenda

Management & Skills

Stats entertainment: Loving IT

It seems that playing computer games, hammering out text messages and shunning face-to-face conversation in favor of instant messaging throughout their formative years has had an effect on the youth of today

Development & Integration

The distributed brain

Grid computing project to simulate human brain could 'become conscious'

Security & Continuity

Global IT security attitudes vastly different

Attitudes towards losing a laptop differ widely around the world

Bribing employees expensive, finds survey

Recession boosts license auditing

Storage revenues plummet

SOA still kicking, says Forrester

Virtualised servers overtake hardware alternatives