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Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Smart power

Can smart metering and dynamic management ease the data centre energy crisis?

Information Management

The analytical eye

Tools that exploit the human visual system's ability to process information can help unlock workers’ untapped powers of analysis

Information Management

The shape of things to come

Gartner’s latest big idea is to seek patterns in information in order to make proactive strategic decisions

IT Services

The ground rules of cloud

The practical considerations of the move to cloud computing warrant careful consideration, as Information Age’s Hosting & Managed Services event discovered

IT Services

The art of contract negotiation

Speaking at Information Age's Hosting & Managed Services conference, Kemp & Little LLP partner Mike Conradi explained the best way to negotiate a contract with a supplier

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Comic Relief puts charity in the cloud

Cloud computing helped the charity behind Red Nose Day to scale IT systems to meet heavily-fluctuating demand, Information Age's Hosting & Managed Services conference heard

Information Management

Opening up DC

Washington DC’s local government was an early pioneer of ‘open data’, and its experiences reveal the power of data-driven transparency [UPDATED]

Information Management

The potential of real-time municipal data

Making public data available in real time allows a citys inhabitants to respond to events as they occur, say MIT researchers

Information Management

Preparing for prediction

Expert advice Carl Bates, data partner at business advisory firm Deloitte, explains the preparations and precautions businesses must undertake as they build a predictive analytics capability

Comms & Networking

Thomson Reuters builds peer-to-peer network for traders

Financial data provider has developed a distributed networking fabric to reduce latency and promote information sharing

Information Management

Search platform fuels information flow at BG Group

The gas giant’s Google appliance deployment prompted departments to take responsibility for their content

Business Applications

Recovery trickles up the IT stack

After a testing period for all the economic recovery is finally being enjoyed by vendors at every level of the IT stack

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

HP shakes up mobile devices market through Palm buy

The big deal of April 2010 revealed that vendor partnerships that prove beneficial in one area technology platform do not necessarily hold true in others

Development & Integration

Salesforce.com and VMware unite to create Java cloud

VMforce pushes "platform-as-a-service" closer to the mainstream, says Forrester Research's Dr Stefan Reid

Business Applications

Workday: Old heads on a new platform

Software as a service provider Workday believes its human capital management software has the potential to replace traditional enterprise resource planning tools

Development & Integration

Micro Focus reflects on six months with no CEO

Application development vendor surprised but undaunted by CEO Stephen Kelly's 2009 resignation

Security & Continuity

Webroot reroutes to the web

Anti-virus software vendor Webroot outlines its reasons for believing the future of enterprise security lies in the cloud

Comms & Networking

'WiMAX is dead. Long live LTE'

The telecommunications industry is ‘coalescing’ around the Long Term Evolution fourth generation mobile networking standard. Does this mean the end is nigh for WiMAX?

Management & Skills

Open Leadership

Book review An in-depth analysis of how social media technologies are forcing a change in business management

Worldwide IT spend to hit $3.4 trillion in 2010

UK trumped in European outsourcing spend

Data explosion fuels info security risk

Greenpeace lauds Cisco environmental effort

SaaS uptake poised to explode, says Gartner