Information Age

25 May 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

June 2007

New licensing models, search and BI, Capgemini's global strategy, Q&A: British Energy
July 2007

Agile ERP, financial service innovation, Storage, Business Briefing: XML integration, Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2007, Research Report: Virtualisation
May 2007

Dynamic pricing, business process management, content management, Q&A: Reuters
April 2007

Cyber assault, managed print services, fixed-mobile convergence, Management Report: Business Intelligence 2007
March 2007

SOA design pitfalls, virtualisation and the operating systems, Business Briefing: Enterprise 2.0
February 2007

Out of India, the life and times of the relational database, The Effective IT 2007 Summit
January 2007

Advanced analytics, green IT, the state of security, The Effective IT 2007 Report

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