Features

LEADERSHIP
The evolution of the CIO
The IT leader of tomorrow must have the skills to manage collaboration, innovation and change
By Pete Swabey

LEADERSHIP
The rare leap from CIO to CEO
It is paradoxically a lack of ambition that makes some CIOs perfect candidates for the top spot
By Pete Swabey

DEVELOPMENT
The Agile revolution
How a radical rethink of development processes has aligned software with the business
By Kenny MacIver

CONTENT MANAGEMENT
The new line up for ECM
Four types of vendor are emerging in the ECM market – survivors, innovators, gorillas and open-source champions
By JJ Robinson

Perspective

RULES MANAGEMENT
Underwritten rules
Specialist insurer Hiscox has used rules management to overcome the complexity of operating across multiple channels
By Pete Swabey

APPLIED IT
Unifying a media empire
Virgin Media was faced with integrating 24 different databases following a flurry of mergers and acquisitions
By JJ Robinson

SECURITY
The business partner risk
Business partners should be regarded as the greatest security headache, according to recent research
By JJ Robinson

BIOMETRICS
Securely speaking
Two newly launched services are about to bring voice verification technology into the mainstream
By Pete Swabey

Industry

MONTH IN REVIEW
Month in review
The top stories from the IT industry in June 2008
By Pete Swabey

STORAGE
EMC maps out storage directions
Storage giant speaks of the coming Flash memory revolution
By Kenny MacIver

MOBILE SECURITY
RIM touts BlackBerry’s uncrackability
The Indian goverment's loss is businesses' gain
By Pete Swabey

WEB ANALYTICS
Coremetrics prepares for IPO

Undaunted by free services, web analytics pursues offline integration ahead of floatation
By JJ Robinson

FINANCIAL REPORT
Accenture's battle of many fronts
Global consultancy warns of coming competition from emerging economies. Plus, Oracle sees profit in consolidation, not software-as-a-service
By Pete Swabey

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Progress in the SOA market
Progress Software pulls together the independent SOA infrastructure industry
By Pete Swabey

INFORMATION AGE INDEX
Information Age Index July 2008
Industry growth slows
By Pete Swabey

Departments

EDITOR'S LETTER
Career upgrades
CIOs and CTOs know too much to make CEO, says Information Age editor Kenny Maciver
By Kenny Maciver

INSIDER
The zen and the art of email management
How to look after your 'digital health'
By Pete Swabey

TRENDS
Rise in business process outsourcing
New economies will boost the BPO industry
By JJ Robinson

TRENDS
Generation Y not self-obsessed, says study
The Gen Y's work ethic isn't as poor as popularly thought, says a new study
By JJ Robinson

TRENDS
Flexible working still not accepted
Working outside normal hours (and at home) is still not acceptable in many workplace cultures, according to a survey of IT workers.
By JJ Robinson

TRENDS
Blade systems lead server sales
Blade servers are pushing increased sales in the server sector
By JJ Robinson

TRENDS
Security sector growth at 20%
Corporate data security is at the forefront of many minds, judging from the sterling performance of the security software sector
By JJ Robinson

TRENDS
One in three IT workers snoop through confidental data
IT workers are using their privileged access to systems to examine secret corporate data.
By JJ Robinson

MICROSOFT
Microsoft 2.0
Mary Jo Foley's new book on the future of the world's most famous software company reviewed
By JJ Robinson

OUTSOURCING
The War for Wealth
Award-winning journalist Gabor Steingart's reappraisal of globalisation reviewed
By Pete Swabey

INNOVATION
Innovation to the Core
A review of Peter Skarzynski & Rowan Gibson guide to innovation in business
By Kenny Maciver

STATS ENTERTAINMENT
Technology idol
An online popularity contest for technology vendor CEOs reveals who is liked by their employees - and who is despised
By Pete Swabey

DATA CENTRES
Data centre ghost town
A surprising lack of data centre real estate deals have been seen in London so far this year
By Pete Swabey

CLOUD COMPUTING
The dangers of cloud computing
Report calls for businesses to wake up to the security challenges of using Internet-based computing services
By Pete Swabey

INSIDER
David Caminer: The World’s first systems analyst
The software pioneer who passed away in June 2008
By Pete Swabey

Also in this issue...

MANAGEMENT REPORT
Future of the Data Centre 08
Data centre imperatives. A report from Information Age's Future of the Data Centre conference
By Information Age

Back issues

Information Age, October 2008 - Ten Web 2.0 business success stories, software asset management, Enterprise Security 08, an interview with Michael Dell

Information Age, September 2008 - Mobile security, human capital management, Bank of America. Research Report: Virtual encounters

Information Age, August 2008 - Desktop virtualisation, unified communications, cultrual dimensions in offshore outsourcing.

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