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Features

Information Management

Reality check

Pete Swabey

Business intelligence and analytics are in demand again as organisations hunt for insight by which to navigate adverse economic conditions

Comms & Networking

Hot lines

JJ Robinson

Moving communications infrastructure on to Internet protocol (IP) networks has opened a Pandora’s box of security threats 

Development & Integration

The rise of Ruby

David Longworth

Beloved of the software developer community, the Ruby on Rails development framework is now infiltrating the mainstream. But is it suitable for the enterprise?

Research

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The burden of power

JJ Robinson

Information Age Research Report Despite the opportunity to cut cost and boost green credentials, many businesses bury their heads in the sand when it comes to data centre power efficiency

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Results - Fear of commitment

Information Age Research Report The imminent Carbon Reduction Commitment is motivating some organisations to address their power consumption, but many others do not even measure it

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Context - The efficiency challenge

Information Age Research Report Measuring power consumption is just the first step in achieving an efficient data centre operation

Perspective

IT Services

Q&A: Irish Life & Permanent

Pete Swabey

How the financial services company’s group IT department implemented service management

The Cloud & Virtualization

Storing surveillance

Nottingham City Transport turned to Blu-ray discs and hierarchical storage management to help archive its CCTV footage

Security & Continuity

Breach rebirth

A serious security breach forced maternity equipment retailer NCT Shop to outsource credit card handling – and to treat its suppliers with greater scrutiny

Industry

IT Services

A sliver of hope

Pete Swabey

The IT sector saw little respite from its dire recent financial performance in August 2009. But one company’s results suggest the industry may be insulated from such disasters in future by the move to cloud computing

Comms & Networking

Cloud convergence

Consolidation around cloud computing started to pick up in August 2009, while eBay finally admitted defeat over Skype

Security & Continuity

SafeNet emerges from obscurity

Secure networking provider is poised to emerge from its anonymous role protecting US government and financial services infrastructure

The Cloud & Virtualization

NetApp adjusts to cloudy climate

Storage vendor prepares for brave new world of utility computing providers

Business Applications

SuccessFactors mints ‘business execution software’

Human capital managment (HCM) applications vendor sees opportunity in new platform for "getting stuff done"

Departments

Management & Skills

Taxing the knowledge economy

Pete Swabey

A reported crack-down on the tax breaks companies receive for investing in innovation could threaten the UK’s technology industry – and its economic future

Business Applications

Crunching the numbers

Business intelligence is one of IT's core goals, says Pete Swabey

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Information Aged

A proposal to use RFID chips to help the elderly organise their lives is the latest development in the emerging field of geriatric IT

Security & Continuity

Hackers and the law

Government's information security regulation ineffective, according to a poll of hackers at Defcon 

PC market declines almost 10%

Vendor support teams criticised by IT directors

Cost savings reinvested strategically, says BMC

Smart phone market growth reaches 27%

Linux spending to hit $1.3 billion by 2013 

Recession drives adoption of managed telecoms

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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