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Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Stacked up

Phil Jones

The IT industry’s largest suppliers are returning to the old model of selling pre-integrated system stacks. But this time it may help their customers, not hinder them

IBM – the stack veteran

Oracle – from software to systems, courtesy of Sun

VCE Alliance – an ambitious bid from the outsiders

Microsoft & Hewlett-Packard – a pragmatic partnership

Comms & Networking

Hybrid comms

Daniel Shane

Social media and unified communications are two technologies whose potential is untapped in the enterprise. Could a combination of the two unlock the benefits of both?

Video plus collaboration boosts Tesco's world domination

Management & Skills

Rethinking IT cost

Pete Swabey

Now is the time to adopt a new approach to managing the cost of IT, presenters at Information Age’s recent Managing IT Cost Effectively seminar argued

How the recession has changed IT buying behaviour

Keeping down the energy overhead

Deriving value from offshore engagements

The case for open source

Management & Skills

Q&A – Royal Mail

Pete Swabey

The UK postal service operator is undergoing radical change, but its IT systems are trapped in the past. Chief technology architect Stuart Curley tells Information Age how it plans to overcome this predicament

Comms & Networking

Fear of the unknown

An inability to measure outcomes and the risk of reputational damage are among the barriers that prevent organisations making the most of social media as a marketing tool

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Standard Bank keeps the desktop cool with virtualisation

An urgent need to limit the heat output of its end-user devices drove Standard Bank to undertake an ambitious desktop virtualisation deployment

Information Management

Deutsche Börse reduces risk with open source

Deutsche Börse Systems employed open source software and open standards to accelerate access to trading risk calculations

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Industry recovery gathers pace, although some left behind

Daniel Shane

The IT industry’s post-recession recovery was in full swing during February 2010, although it appeared to pass by some notable exceptions

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Move to cloud drives systems management acquisitions

The increasingly distributed nature of IT systems is presenting novel systems management challenges, and therefore fuelling acquisitions in the space

Business Applications

Canonical touts Ubuntu Linux to the enterprise

Open source OS firm Canonical has already conquered the desktop Linux arena, and is now aiming to gain a foothold in the enterprise space

Security & Continuity

Check Point enjoys high margin on security

Security software vendor Check Point is successfully capitalising on the move to cloud computing and virtualisation

IT Services

Capgemini’s bid to industrialise procurement

IT services supplier hopes a recent acquisition will help it bring procurement outsourcing to the mainstream

Information Management

Should businesses put a price on privacy?

Pete Swabey

Experts react to the Information Commissioner's proposal that businesses place a financial value on their customers' privacy

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

UK leads the way in server virtualisation

Enterprise organisations in the UK are steaming ahead in terms of sever virtualisation adoption, industry research has found

Comms & Networking

Downturn drives cloud UC adoption

The economic downturn has encouraged enterprises to deploy cloud-based unified communications solutions, according to a study

Security & Continuity

Enterprise applications insecure, research claims

Enterprises are putting themselves at risk by deploying potentially risky applications, according to a new report