Current Issue

25 May 2012

Features

Security & Continuity

Defending the nation

Daniel Shane

Does the UK have the skills to protect itself in cyberspace?

Development & Integration

The tangled web

Gareth Morgan

Web applications are quick to build and highly flexible, but the fragmentation of development platforms – and the complexity of the web itself – warrant careful consideration

Development & Integration

Building a web community for frequent flyers

Lufthansa connects its customers using a bespoke mobile application

Management & Skills

On the money

Information Age

There are many ways in which having the right information can improve IT finance management, as Information Age’s Managing IT Cost Effectively seminar heard

Management & Skills

Costing the cloud

Two views of the cost impact of cloud computing

Comms & Networking

The netiquette of business

How not to behave professionallly in social networking sites

Perspective

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Towards 'IT as a service'

Pete Swabey

The head of Birmingham Airport’s information services department explains how virtualisation has helped its bid to become a service provider to the business

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Tesco's power analytics

How data analysis is helping Tesco to achieve its carbon reduction targets

Information Management

Joined-up thinking?

Deutsche Postbank puts IBM’s integrated analytics platform to the test

Industry

Development & Integration

Put to the test

Businesses are beginning to think more strategically about software testing, providing an opportunity for independent testing services providers

Comms & Networking

Nokia and Microsoft unite in smartphone wars

Handset maker and software enter strategic partnership to address their smartphone shortcomings

The Cloud & Virtualization

John Thompson and virtualisation's "downstream effects"

With his new company Virtual Instruments, the former Symantec CEO hopes to capitalise on the impact of virtualisation on fibre channel storage area networks

Business Applications

Platform approach helps Misys capture African innovation

The UK software maker sees its SOA platform as an opportunity to connect African banks with the continent's technological revolution

The Cloud & Virtualization

AppSense's personality split wins high profile backing

Why investment giant Goldman Sachs has put $70 million behind UK company's "user virtualisation" technology

Departments

Comms & Networking

Is another tech bubble possible?

Billion-dollar valuations for websites like Facebook have commentators speculating over a new dot-com bubble. But could the industry really be fooled again?

Brits not keen on mobile banking

Complexity a growing concern for businesses

Data warehousing industry at inflection point

Management & Skills

Company directors must become tech-savvy

Opportunities and risks posed by IT demand the attention of the board but seldom receive it, Deloitte report claims

Information Management

Boom time for storage software sector

Storage software vendors enjoyed "sustained recovery" in final quarter of 2010, IDC finds

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