October 2011

25 May 2012

Features

Information Management

Corporate revolution?

Pete Swabey

Social media has proven to be a disruptive force in society, but does business use of social collaboration really threaten corporate hierarchies?

Comms & Networking

Rebooting Psion

The UK handset-maker has implemented a social community website to support its partner-focused reinvention

Business Applications

Rubbish IT

Hal Hodson

How information technology is making waste management more efficient and cost effective

Business Applications

Waste not, want not

LeanPath makes throwing food away more like a supermarket checkout, saving restaurants money

Comms & Networking

Toppling the content kings

Jessica Twentyman

Suppliers from various technology sectors are plotting to disrupt the content delivery network market

Comms & Networking

Perform Group uses multiple CDNs to keep sport online

How the world's largest provider of streaming sport video uses a multi-CDN strategy to guarantee content delivery

Perspective

Business Applications

Q&A – Thomson Reuters

Pete Swabey

Jane Moran, CIO of the professional and business information provider, on standardising applications, building an internal software development function and improving IT delivery

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Becoming a monster

Hal Hodson

The rapid growth of children’s gaming website Moshi Monsters has prompted creator Mind Candy to relocate and redesign its web infrastructure

Information Management

Crisis analytics

How one Greek bank prepared for the financial crisis using business intelligence

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Restricted view

Many organisations are struggling to meet unpredictable demand for IT services with constrained data centre capacity, Information Age’s latest roundtable debate heard

Business Applications

"IT will be free"

Dr Kishore Swaminathan, Accenture’s global chief of research, believes that, in future, applications will be paid for by advertising to employees

Industry

Information Management

Oracle throws big iron at big data

The new Big Data Appliance is Oracle's foray into the Hadoop distro wars, one of the key battlefronts in enterprise IT

Security & Continuity

Has Anonymous attack been the making of HBGary?

Little-known security company says sales are up 85% since its run in with 'hacktivist' group Anonymous

Comms & Networking

Mining dark fibre

Discovering an unused fibre optic cable in Mongolia allowed BSO Network Solutions to shave milliseconds from the latency on its London to Hong Kong network

Departments

Management & Skills

Steve Jobs' enterprise legacy

Pete Swabey

The late Apple CEO proved that, when it comes to technology, openness is not everything

Building societies to "invest heavily" in IT

Symantec and KPMG spin cloud stats in opposite directions

Money, power and the media most bullish on IT spend – IDC

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