March 2009

8 February 2012

Features

Success as a service

Pete Swabey

Ten business success stories from the cutting edge of on-demand applications

Making the grade

Kenny MacIver

With their budgets under intense scrutiny, IT organisations are looking to benchmarking to highlight where they excel against their peers

Access All Areas

JJ Robinson

UK websites are legally obliged to ensure their content is ‘reasonably’ accessible to all users, regardless of ability or disability. But only a small proportion take that requirement seriously

Excelling in innovation

Information Age

Information Age celebrates the winners and runners-up of its Innovation Awards after readers have the casting vote

Perspective

The UK’s largest hospitality company has undergone radical change in the past decade. Change and information director Ben Wishart explains how creating an IT agenda has sustained a common cause through the upheaval

Information Management

Don Taspcott on the Open Revolution

Web 2.0 technologies are fostering a culture of transparency and openness, says author Don Tapscott, a culture to which businesses must adapt

Management & Skills

Leaner resources, greater value

The new imperative for business IT is to cut costs while delivering better performance, says Accenture’s Stephen Page

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Engine room economics

The financial meltdown has not dampened enthusiasm for building data centre facilities across Europe

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Smart money

President Obama’s economic stimulus package has provided a boost for the next generation of energy distribution technology: Smart Grids

IT Services

The Guardian moves office into the cloud

JJ Robinson

Guardian Media Group’s switch to Google Apps is accompanied by some tricky questions

IT Services

Swiss Post to open Zurich’s mail

Outsourcing mail handling makes sense for large companies. Especially if you are dealing with 400,000 letters a day

Industry

Magazine

Month in review

All the stories of the month, including BearingPoint bankruptcy protection and DEFRA's thin client revelation

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

VMware injects substance into the cloud

Pete Swabey

Virtualisation leader reveals further details of its cloud operating system at its European expo. But is the company itself up to the job?

Comms & Networking

Alcatel-Lucent maps out revival agenda

Troubled communications giant eyes government stimulus plans for return to growth

Information Management

Day sets sights on web content limelight

Swiss open source web content management company readies for the big time

Business Applications

HP reveals its vulnerability with 13% profit drop

Pete Swabey

Plus, Salesforce.com breaks the billion-dollar barrier

Comms & Networking

Technological enhancements

It is a quiet time in the IT sector acquisitions market, allowing some of the more esoteric technology acquisitions to come to the fore

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Information Age Index March 2009

Industry growth heads towards zero

Departments

Magazine

The realities of SaaS are dawning

Software-as-a-service is becoming mainsteam, says Information Age editor Kenny MacIver

Development & Integration

Westminster's open source epiphany

Pete Swabey

Politicians of all stripes are suddenly singing the praises of open source software. But how far are they prepared to take the principles of openness?

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Mutiny on the desktop

Canadian Navy officers create 'national security breach' by moving desktop icons

Mini-notebooks stabilise PC market

IP threat spooks IT execs

The days of the desktop phone are numbered

Legal threat to IT consultants

UK enterprises show budget caution

Social networking now used in the office

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