Features

DATA INTEGRATION
Untangling the data knot
Building a flexible and business-responsive SOA environment demands fluid data integration.
By Chiedu Nosegbe (Squiz)

SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
Structural hazard
SOA has won many converts, but its popularity should not mask the challenges of delivery.
By Pete Swabey

COLLABORATION
Benefits of collaboration
Collaboration is not just some over-hyped buzzword, but an essential part of business life.
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VIRTUALISATION
Hypervision
Virtualisation threatens to usurp the classic role of the operating system - and reshape the industry.

By Phil Jones

Perspective

DATA CENTRE
Energy efficiency in data centres
Data centre energy efficiency schemes depend on the establishment of accurate metrics.
By Diana Walker

SECURITY
Home workers open security breaches
Home users' lax approach to security is seriously undermining corporate defences.
By Diana Walker

Interaction

DATA INTEGRATION
JP Morgan WSS
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services' CTO on the bank's $100 million revamp.
By Hannah Prevett

SOA
Voca flicks the SOA switch
Voca has overhauled its IT architecture in preparation for pan-European payments.
By Chiedu Nosegbe (Squiz)

Industry

FINANCIAL RESULTS
Global services refresh
The latest financial numbers from European and US IT services companies show how well some have built global delivery capabilities.

By Kenny MacIver

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Picky eaters
Consolidators don't always seek out the biggest names.

By Pete Swabey

APPLICATION DELIVERY
Citrix leans on Windows
Still endebted to the fat client king.

By Pete Swabey

IT SERVICES
Xansa attains Indian equality
Attitudes to offshoring are slowly changing, but UK companies need to strike a fine balance.

By Pete Swabey

IT INDUSTRY
Month in review: March 2007
March's news reviewed.
By Hannah Prevett

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
IT's voracious appetite for BI
IT’s love affair with business intelligence (BI) tools isn’t going to end anytime soon.
By Hannah Prevett

MOBILE WORKING
Mobile working improves work/life balance
Mobile working is perceived as a major enhancement to productivity, making it increasingly popular with employers and employees alike. But is not without its share of governance and security issues.
By Pete Swabey

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Oracle buys itself leadership in BI
Applications giant Oracle acquires business intelligence company Hyperion.

By Gareth Morgan

NETWORKING
Alcatel-Lucent hones enterprise focus
Alcatel-Lucent has had a difficult birth, but now it plans to take on Cisco in enterprise networking.
By Phil Jones

Departments

OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING
Offshore account
News agency Reuters bucks the trend; it is proud to have gone offshore.

By Pete Swabey

EMAIL MANAGEMENT
Stats entertainment: The price of spam
Making spam pay.

By Pete Swabey

SOCIAL NETWORK
The free spirit of Cisco
Why the network equipment maker has befriended the hippy community.

By Pete Swabey

CIO CHALLENGES
CIOs focus on value and service
The IT industry is on the brink of another cycle of IT investment not seen since the dot-com boom, according to a recent survey by IT services company Accenture.
By Hannah Prevett

MICROSOFT
Outmoded Microsoft
The world's largest software company is looking distinctly unfashionable, says Information Age editorial director, Andrew Lawrence.
By Hannah Prevett

PRIVACY
Snoop dupe
How widespread is government eavesdropping on communications?

By Gareth Morgan

SMART CARDS
Oyster olympics
London plans for smart Olympic ticketing
By Gareth Morgan

OUTSOURCING
Offshore work permits: Use or abuse?
Foreign IT staff working in the UK: abuse of the work permit scheme or a boon for business?
By Hannah Prevett

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