Features
OFFSHORE INNOVATION
Offshore 2.0
Organisations are now looking to their sourcing partners for technology and business process innovation
By Kenny MacIver
OFFSHORE INNOVATION
Liquid innovation at Scottish Water
The utility provider's outsourcing partners are expected to deliver on innovation
By Kenny MacIver
OFFSHORE INNOVATION
The Offshore 2.0 debate
Information Age readers discuss the challenge of fostering strategic partnerships with service providers
By Kenny MacIver
OFFSHORE INNOVATION
Infosys - The human pyramid
The Indian IT pioneer is grappling with the challenge of changing from service provider to an innovative business partner
By Pete Swabey
STORAGE MANAGEMENT
Antidote to data cloning
Deduplication is the hottest technology in storage, promising to purge bloated databases and bulging email servers
By JJ Robinson
GREEN IT
Green IT in action
Green IT is a tangle of technology, branding, power bills, climate politics and public perception. But some CIOs are making progress – and without impacting the bottom line
By JJ Robinson
GREEN IT
Lean green machine
Building the environmentally-friendly desktop device
By JJ Robinson
VIRTUALISATION
The virtualisation experience
Complete this five minute survey on the challenges of virtualisation and you could win an HD-ready flat screen TV
By Information Age
Perspective
VIRTUALISATION
A virtual operation
How the Royal College of Physicians used virtualisation to cut its hardware requirements by four-fifths
By Jessica Twentyman
APPLIED IT
Scoring from outside the inbox
Tottenham Hotspur FC uses automated archiving to avoid relegation to the email second division.
By JJ Robinson
EVENT DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE
The main event
Banking giant Citigroup begins to see the benefits of implementing an event-driven architecture
By David Longworth
Industry
MONTH IN REVIEW
Month in review
The top stories from the IT industry in May 2008
By Pete Swabey
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
SAP closes the gaps around ERP
Application maker expands product range to plug the gaps between analysis and execution, and between organisations
By Pete Swabey
HEWLETT-PACKARD
EDS buy to reshape Hewlett-Packard
Analysing Hewlett Packard's $13 billion acquisition of Texan IT services giant EDS
By Pete Swabey
DATA INTEGRATION
Informatica expands its integration repertoire
Independent data-integration vendor pushes at the boundaries of functionality
By JJ Robinson
FINANCIAL REPORT
Overseas success for US IT giants
As US companies turn to the emerging economies to drive growth, in Europe Germany is providing interesting new opportunities, while France and the UK remain challenging markets
By Pete Swabey
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
VMware brings automomic computing closer to reality
Plus, Accenture reveals the breath of its vertical divisions
By Pete Swabey
INFORMATION AGE INDEX
Information Age Index May 2008
Industry growth falling back
By Pete Swabey
Departments
EDITOR'S LETTER
A higher plane
Perceptions of India's low-cost economy are being challenged
By Kenny Maciver
TRENDS
Enterprise adopting Vista slower than expected
Adoption of Windows Vista has been much slower than expected among businesses.
By JJ Robinson
TRENDS
Data centre building boom
Companies are building and expanding data centres despite economic gloom
By JJ Robinson
TRENDS
Universities are failing to teach security education, say experts
Security education in the IT degrees of UK universities has been found wanting, according to a report by the Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network
By JJ Robinson
TRENDS
Business continuity not up to scratch
Mid-market businesses are failing to adequately ensure business continuity, according to security company Activity
By JJ Robinson
TRENDS
Worldwide surge in demand for IT services
IT services are increasingly in demand, although big players like IBM still take most of the pot
By JJ Robinson
TRENDS
Latency concerns are driving IT spending in the finance sector
Latency is critical to the finance industry, particulary securities traders, with nine out of every 10 planning to invest in reducing it.
By JJ Robinson
INSIDER
Genetic computers a little bit closer
Bacteria could one day be used in a computing platform
By Pete Swabey
INSIDER
Stats entertainment – Squatters’ wrongs
Tracking malicious cyber-squatters
By Pete Swabey
TRENDS
“Consolidation in the IT services industry is throttling competition”
As the number of IT services providers capable of global or large-scale governmental projects steadily declines, are the remaining few becoming too powerful?
By Pete Swabey
Also in this issue...
MANAGEMENT REPORT
Business Intelligence 08
Creating the intelligent enterprise. A report from Information Age's Business Intelligence 08 conference.
By Information Age
RESEARCH REPORT
Return on technology
The economics of IT value creation. A research report from Information Age, in association with KPMG
By Kenny MacIver
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
