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The Cloud & Virtualization

Thin provisioning

Thin provisioning can radically improve storage utilisation levels by allocating storage resources that do not exist.

Security & Continuity

The China security threat

The threat that China poses to IT security is making Western business executives nervous

IT Services

China's offshore opportunity

The Chinese IT outsourcing industry has many challenges to overcome. But it also has the resources to pull it off

Perspective

Management & Skills

See-through Tarmac

How construction materials provider Tarmac opened up its ERP systems to its customers

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Balancing availability with environmental responsibility

Can businesses guarantee availability without wasting energy?

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The virtual licensing hurdle

Licensing software on virtual machines brings fresh challenges, says Gartner’s Frank DeSalvo

Management & Skills

An interview with Steve Mills

In a rare and exclusive interview, IBM’s software chief, Steve Mills, opens up on the company’s software agenda

Industry

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Virtualisation gold rush continues apace

Novell and Sun Microsystems extend their virtual reach

Management & Skills

Salesforce.com on track to break $1 billion barrier

Plus, the fortunes of HP and Dell continue to diverge

Business Applications

BlueWolf brings SaaS consultancy to Europe

Salesforce.com-affiliated consultancy moves new model across the pond

Development & Integration

Veracode strives for standard security

Fledgling testing provider declares war on insecure code

Magazine

Adobe blows AIR into desktop web apps

Desktop web-app runtime may propel document format vendor into platform market

The Cloud & Virtualization

HDS engineers a virtual revival

Controller-level storage virtualisation to boost storage utilisation levels

Magazine

Month in review

The top IT industry stories from February 2008

Departments

Magazine

Data centre land grab seen in 2007

Hunger for data centre space not seen since dot com boom

Information Management

Business intelligence spending to slow

Consolidation leads to customer caution

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Cost governs green IT agenda

Energy costs drive environmental policies

Magazine

IT spending to slow

Economic downturn will affect IT spend, says Forrester Research

Magazine

The Big Switch

Nicholas Carr, famed for his earlier judgement that ‘IT doesn’t matter’, maps out the transformation of IT into utility services and a time when the ‘World Wide Computer’ will be indistinguishable from human intelligence

Information Management

Hiding in plain sight

How data quality software has unearthed some of the world's most notorious criminals

Magazine

Desk pest

Tux the penguin now available in robot form

Security & Continuity

This data will self-destruct

New anti-theft device wipes sensitive information

Comms & Networking

“Proposed laws targeting illegal downloaders may put businesses at risk”

Does a government green paper point to a time when businesses are responsible for the music downloads carried out by their staff at work?

Magazine

The tao of IT

Embrace China's contradictions, says Kenny MacIver

Also in this issue...

Magazine

Effective IT 2008 Summit

A report from Information Age's Effective IT 2008 Summit event

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

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