May 2011

25 May 2012

Features

Comms & Networking

Smart money

Jessica Twentyman

Will smartphones finally make the mobile wallet a reality?

Comms & Networking

Tough calls

Graeme Burton

The highly automated approach to call centre management can frustrate employees and customers alike. Is there a better way?

Security & Continuity

Security detail

Information Age

New research from Information Age identifies the security practices, processes and technologies that organisations are adopting to protect their information

Perspective

IT Services

Q&A – Accenture

Pete Swabey

Frank Modruson, CIO of the outsourcing and consulting giant, explains why it maintained IT investment throughout the recent recession

The Cloud & Virtualization

All change

Pete Swabey

The British Transport Police is undergoing a virtualisation transformation in advance of the London 2012 Olympics

Management & Skills

British Gas invests £2 million in IT apprenticeship scheme

The utilities giant is investing in knowledge and skills that are loyal to the organisation, explains human resources manager Mark Stoddart

Comms & Networking

How the cookies crumble

The UK’s new cookie law requires businesses to audit the way their websites track user behaviour, writes Robert Bond, partner at Speechly Bircham LLP

Industry

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Intel's '3D' chips keep Moore's law on track

Chipmaker's new Tri Gate transistor design keeps the IT sector's innovation cycle on course, but will it help crack the smartphone market?

Security & Continuity

Cost of cyber crime is not science fiction, says Detica

Security supplier defends its £23 billion esimate of the economic cost of cyber crime as a "first attempt" to close an information gap in the industry

Information Management

Satalia aims to become the iTunes of algorithms

UK start-up's ambition is to connect academia with industry through online marketplace for cutting-edge algorithms

Departments

The Cloud & Virtualization

Black swans in the cloud

An outage at Amazon Web Services and a catastrophic data breach at Sony show that when Internet-scale systems fail, they do so spectacularly

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

An upgrade for HECToR

The UK's fastest supercomputer is about to get faster

Information Management

Book review – The Information

James Gleick, the author who popularised chaos theory in the 1980s, could well repeat the trick with his new book on information theory

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