Information Age

8 February 2012

Features

The content conundrum

The content management market presents some tough choices for IT decision-makers.

Liquid commerce

Organisations embrace ‘dynamic pricing’ models to drive profitability.

Perspective

The middle class

Mid-sized businesses are now starting to receive some long-overdue attention from the upper echelons of the technology sector.

Search pioneers leave majors behind

Software giants may have to buy their way back into the booming market.

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Microsoft's virtual balancing act

Virtualisation is arguably the hottest race in software. So why is Microsoft stuck on the pits?

Interaction

Productivity drain

Once lauded as the all-time ‘killer app’ of modern IT, email now poses a threat to business productivity.

The Reuters offshore story

Dave Weller, global head of solutions delivery at Reuters, discusses building an offshore resource.

Industry

Business continuity moves up the agenda

Aproaches to the implementation of business continuity are changing.

IT consultants' pay soars

Times are rosy for IT consultants as demand drives massive salary increases.

Software licensing model shift

SOA and SaaS could end traditional software subscription models.

Measuring success

Quanitifying the business benefits of virtualisation proves tough.

Hired labour

HR automation attracts the business application consolidators' attention.

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Server returns

After years on the tightrope, the server market is paying out.

Zeus reigns in the virtual desktop world

Zeus Technology wants to be the trusted traffic cop of the virtualised applications world.

Cisco gears up for a platform fight

The network equipment maker is in a belligerent mood.

Departments

Conquering insecurity

Disclosure of security breaches should be mandatory, says Information Age editorial director, Andrew Lawrence.

McKinsey on offshoring

Collection of seminal articles from the McKinsey Global Institute.

2.0 Watch

Information Age keeps track of the various industry visions of everything and anything 2.0.

Web of confusion

Does web audience measurement - the main issue the Internet promised to resolve - work at all?

Mobile VoIP causes friction

VoIP functions on handsets give mobile operators a headache.

Fluid dynamics

Ripping up the fixed price list can be a lucrative move, says Information Age editor Kenny MacIver.

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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