Information Age

25 May 2012

Features

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Energy lockdown

The chronic shortage of power for data centres – especially in London – is threatening to cap business expansion

Perspective

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Virtual recalibration

Virtualisation is helping to undo decades of inefficiency in the IT infrastructure, but it is not without its own difficulties

Comms & Networking

White Stuff streamlines data network

Clothing retailer White Stuff uses a third-party managed WAN to accelerate business processes

Magazine

Valentino's designer ERP

Fashion house stiches together its empire with a single ERP infrastructure

Security & Continuity

The Jericho Forum's demolition framework

After four years in gestation, the Jericho Forum delivers a blueprint for perimeterless IT security

Industry

Magazine

Information Age Index April 2008

IT industry goes off the boil

Magazine

Consolidating WAN acceleration

WAN optimisation pioneer falls to independent upstart as market attracts heavyweights

Business Applications

Profits squeezed in tech sector

SAP and EMC see profits decline. Meanwhile, Indian IT outsources receive a one year exension on their tax holiday

Security & Continuity

Check Point capitalises on independent agenda

The gorilla of pure-play security software wants to help customers with all of their security needs, and not just their perimeter defences

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Parallels out from under the radar

The virtualisation and systems management tool provider is emerging from the shadows

Information Management

Omniture puts web analytics in an IT-free zone

Web analytics provider has taken tools out of the control of IT to empower marketers

Magazine

Month in review

The top stories from the IT industry in April 2008

Departments

Magazine

European data centres greener than in the US

But a lack of standards is holding back energy improvements

Business Applications

RDBMS demand still strong

Relational databases have withstood predictions of obsolescence

Magazine

CRM back in vogue

New software models have revived the once flagging CRM industry

Magazine

'Enterprise 2.0' boom approaching

Corporate spending on consumer-web inspired systems to explode, says Forrester Research

Magazine

Denmark tops world IT ranking

Britain dropping down the charts of technological maturity, according to the World Economic Forum

Business Applications

Software-as-a-service enters the mainstream

McKinsey research finds SaaS gaining momentum

Information Management

Open protest

Panic on the streets of Oslo as Microsoft's OOXML document format achieves standard status

Magazine

Flying with black swans

Low-cost airline SkyBus learned the hard way that deep analytics cannot predict everything

Comms & Networking

The death of the (open) Internet

A leading US telco has once again predicted the death of the Internet. But is an ulterior motive at play?

Also in this issue...

Information Management

Information integrity

Strategies for dealing with shadow data systems. An Information Age Business Briefing

Magazine

Information orchestration

The drive towards more effective information management. An Information Age Research Report

Magazine

Future of Software 2008

A report from Information Age's Future of Software 2008 event

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