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Features

Comms & Networking

Device diversity

Pete Swabey

The search for a strategy on heterogeneous client computing

Comms & Networking

Opening messages

Graeme Burton

Launched in October 2011, Advanced Message Queuing Protocol provides an open source alternative to high-cost messaging systems

Security & Continuity

The wisdom of clouds

Hal Hodson

A report from Information Age's Cloud Security 2011 conference, including three cloud security case studies

Security & Continuity

Putting the London insurance market into the cloud

Uncertain how London's insurers would take to its e-brokerage platform Lime-St.com, TriSystems opted for cloud-based hosting

Security & Continuity

Securing mobile access 

Corporate finance advisory KBR used cloud-based service Simplexo to remove the risk of mobile workers 

Security & Continuity

Exploiting the human weak point

Author and consultant Ian Mann explains how he got the better of a SaaS provider's security precautions by outsmarting its customer support agents

Perspective

Security & Continuity

Internet protocol

Pete Swabey

The London Conference on Cyberspace revealed the extent to which the Internet has become a foreign policy issue

Security & Continuity

The cyberspace defense complex

The London Conference on Cyberspace was an opportunity for the UK's defense sector to showcase its cyber-savvy

Security & Continuity

Facing up to the issue

Are businesses obliged to make sure their networks are not being used to distribute images of child sexual abuse?

Information Management

Grid architects

Hal Hodson

National Grid is undergoing an information services transformation that places strategic importance on enterprise architecture

Information Management

Local governance

Getting citizen data under control is helping the London Borough of Brent provide more intelligent public services

Industry

Security & Continuity

Intel reveals the fruits of its McAfee acquisition

DeepSAFE will work outside the operating system at chip level watching the hardware for signs of malware, says Intel CTO Justin Rattner

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Independence for Facebook’s open source hardware project

Social networking giant hands control of its open source hardware specifications to the newly launched Open Compute Foundation

Development & Integration

The SME building the UK government's IT inventory

Leeds-based CDS is the SME that the government proudly announced is building its new IT asset and service knowledge base

Departments

Security & Continuity

Little Brother is watching

Pete Swabey

The government’s strategy on identity management is to partner with private sector identity providers. What does this mean, and what are the implications?

Brace yourself for more budget pressure, Gartner tells CIOs

Information trumps automation in 2012

Business challenges holding back integrated analytics

Four in ten enterprises plan to switch hypervisor

Thai flooding to cause HDD shortage in 2012

Security & Continuity

No time for faith in the Internet

Book review – The Revolution Will Be Digitised by Heather Brooke and The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov

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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