Information Age

8 February 2012

Features

Information Management

Benefits of collaboration

Collaboration is not just some over-hyped buzzword, but an essential part of business life.

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Hypervision

Virtualisation threatens to usurp the classic role of the operating system - and reshape the industry.

Development & Integration

Untangling the data knot

Building a flexible and business-responsive SOA environment demands fluid data integration.

Development & Integration

Structural hazard

SOA has won many converts, but its popularity should not mask the challenges of delivery.

Perspective

Comms & Networking

Home workers open security breaches

Home users' lax approach to security is seriously undermining corporate defences.

Management & Skills

Energy efficiency in data centres

Data centre energy efficiency schemes depend on the establishment of accurate metrics.

Interaction

Development & Integration

Voca flicks the SOA switch

Voca has overhauled its IT architecture in preparation for pan-European payments.

Management & Skills

JP Morgan WSS

JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services' CTO on the bank's $100 million revamp.

Industry

Magazine

Mobile working improves work/life balance

Mobile working is perceived as a major enhancement to productivity, making it increasingly popular with employers and employees alike. But is not without its share of governance and security issues.

Magazine

Picky eaters

Consolidators don't always seek out the biggest names.

Magazine

Global services refresh

The latest financial numbers from European and US IT services companies show how well some have built global delivery capabilities.

Magazine

Month in review: March 2007

March's news reviewed.

Magazine

Citrix leans on Windows

Still endebted to the fat client king.

Magazine

Xansa attains Indian equality

Attitudes to offshoring are slowly changing, but UK companies need to strike a fine balance.

Magazine

Alcatel-Lucent hones enterprise focus

Alcatel-Lucent has had a difficult birth, but now it plans to take on Cisco in enterprise networking.

Information Management

Oracle buys itself leadership in BI

Applications giant Oracle acquires business intelligence company Hyperion.

Departments

Magazine

CIOs focus on value and service

The IT industry is on the brink of another cycle of IT investment not seen since the dot-com boom, according to a recent survey by IT services company Accenture.

Magazine

Outmoded Microsoft

The world's largest software company is looking distinctly unfashionable, says Information Age editorial director, Andrew Lawrence.

Magazine

Snoop dupe

How widespread is government eavesdropping on communications?

Magazine

Stats entertainment: The price of spam

Making spam pay.

Information Management

The free spirit of Cisco

Why the network equipment maker has befriended the hippy community.

Magazine

Oyster olympics

London plans for smart Olympic ticketing

IT Services

Offshore work permits: Use or abuse?

Foreign IT staff working in the UK: abuse of the work permit scheme or a boon for business?

Magazine

Offshore account

News agency Reuters bucks the trend; it is proud to have gone offshore.

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