Features
STORAGE
Access guaranteed
The rate of data growth within the enterprise is forcing some radical rethinking of storage.
By Gareth Morgan
FINANCIAL SERVICES/LEGACY
Nexus of innovation?
The financial services industry is struggling under the weight of three decades of technology build-up.
By Hannah Prevett
ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
Agile ERP
Can enterprise resource planning ever become as flexible as modern business requires?
By Pete Swabey
Perspective
MOBILE INTERNET
The talking web
Can speech recognition technology allow the ‘mobile web’ to take off at last?
By Pete Swabey
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Spreading the gospel
The new version of ITIL takes service management beyond the IT department to the business.
By Pete Swabey
Interaction
DATA CENTRE
Harrods hoists an IT pod
World-renowned department store puts its data centre on the roof
By Pete Swabey
PC VIRTUALISATION
Parking the PC
NCP uses blade PC technology to take processing out of its car parks.
By Pete Swabey
PERSPECTIVE
Online payment health check
The Royal College of Physicians enhances websites to meet new card payment standards.
By Hannah Prevett
Industry
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
IBM shoots for development dominance
Telelogic acquisition puts IBM Rational way out ahead
By Pete Swabey
INDUSTRY
Consultants' upswing
The consulting market enjoys a renewed high, while Oracle continues its strong progress - albeit unevenly.
By Pete Swabey
INDUSTRY
Security convergence
Consolidation in the security space accelerates as the giants of IT jostle for larger slices of the expanding security pie.
By Hannah Prevett
STORAGE
The next $1bn step in EMC’s ‘work in progress’
From high-end arrays to universal information infrastructure: re-inventing EMC.
By Gareth Morgan
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Pornography use continues to cause a stir
IT executives need to be more diligent about monitoring and controlling the information passing across their networks if they are to protect their company’s brand image, fulfil compliance obligations and avoid employee legal action.
By Pete Swabey
IT SERVICES
IT services vendors battle it out
The outsourcing market continues to grow at a rapid pace and competition is fierce as each vendor fights for a slice of the action.
By Pete Swabey
STORAGE
Smaller vendors tighten grip on storage market
The past year has seen much movement in disk storage systems, not least of all with niche players strenthening their position in the marketplace.
By Pete Swabey
SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT
Innovation stifled by poor asset management
A clearer picture of software assets is needed if executives are to be able to unlock capital trapped within the business.
By Pete Swabey
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project managers lack leadership skills
IT and business managers need to brush up on their leadership skills if they are going to ensure increased project success rates.
By Pete Swabey
SECURITY
Security executives face changing role
Requirement for broader management skillsets has provoked a rapid evolution in the role of security managers.
By Pete Swabey
IT INDUSTRY
Month in review
June's news reviewed.
By Pete Swabey
Departments
BOOK
Flawed security
Ira Winkler offers a dubious take on the so-called philosophy of information security
By Hannah Prevett
BILL GATES
A wanted man
By Gareth Morgan
DATA CENTRES
End of the search for a cure
As NHS IT chief Richard Granger bows out, Information Age’s editorial director Andrew Lawrence assesses his legacy.
By Pete Swabey
EMPLOYMENT
Disappointments section
Dubious legal practices exposed
By Pete Swabey
BIOMETRICS
Are biometrics scalable?
Plans for a European identity database will test the robustness of today’s biometric technology.
By Hannah Prevett
Also in this issue
Back issues
Information Age, July 2008 - The evolution of the CIO, Agile development, enterprise content management. Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2008
Information Age, June 2008 - Offshore innovation, Green IT in action, storage deduplication. Management report: Business Intelligence 08. Research Report: The value of IT
Information Age, May 2008 - The coming energy drought, women in IT. Research report: Information orchestration. Business briefing: Shadow data systems. Management report: Future of Software 2008
Information Age, April 2008 - Corporate social networking, securing virtual environments, an interview with HP's enterprise chief Ann Livermore
Information Age, March 2008 - IT opportunity and threat in the new Chinese economy, thin provisioning, the Effective IT 2008 Summit
Information Age, February 2008 - Living without an IT director, alternative biometrics, WiMax. Research report: Data governance
Information Age, January 2008 - The Effective IT 2008 Report: The technologies and services behind today's most dramatic business success stories. Plus: Management Report - IT for the M Business
Information Age, December 2007 - Data centre mythbusting, protecting against floods, SaaS meets SOA. Management report: Eco-responsibilty in IT
Information Age, November 2007 - Contactless payment systems, data centre co-location, systems management & virtualisation. Research report: Maximising IT's potential
Information Age, October 2007 - Serious business in virtual worlds, agile development at Standard Life, VMware profile, NHS Direct Q&A
Information Age, August 2007 - The insider security threat, video conferencing, Effective IT Awards winners report
Information Age, June 2007 - New licensing models, search and BI, Capgemini's global strategy, Q&A: British Energy
Information Age, July 2007 - Agile ERP, financial service innovation, Storage, Business Briefing: XML integration, Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2007, Research Report: Virtualisation
Information Age, May 2007 - Dynamic pricing, business process management, content management, Q&A: Reuters
Information Age, April 2007 - Cyber assault, managed print services, fixed-mobile convergence, Management Report: Business Intelligence 2007
Information Age, March 2007 - SOA design pitfalls, virtualisation and the operating systems, Business Briefing: Enterprise 2.0
Information Age, February 2007 - Out of India, the life and times of the relational database, The Effective IT 2007 Summit
Information Age, January 2007 - Advanced analytics, green IT, the state of security, The Effective IT 2007 Report
