Features
DATA CENTRE
Colocation's hunger for power
Demand for rented data centre space is soaring, but co-location providers are under intense pressure of their own.
By Gareth Morgan
VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT
The rise of virtual sprawl
The challenges of systems management are about to grow with the proliferation of virtual machines.
By Pete Swabey
CASHLESS PAYMENTS
One touch commerce
Banks and retailers are throwing their weight behind contactless payments systems, giving rise to the e-wallet.
By Pete Swabey
Perspective
JAN BAAN
Changing ERP's spots
ERP pioneer Jan Baan is making a comeback at the head of Cordys - an SOA and BPM company
By Pete Swabey
SECURITY
Security as a service
Anti-spam software is helping drive customer service improvements at Irish Life & Permanent.
By Pete Swabey
LSE
Q&A - London Stock Exchange
Robin Paine, CTO of the LSE, on how the institution has armed itself with world-class IT.
By Pete Swabey
DATA GOVERNANCE
The data blame game
As organisations tackle data quality and governance, they must confront broader information issues.
By Pete Swabey
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE
SAP rethinks software
SAP’s on-demand applications offering, Business ByDesign, may turn the company into a mass market vendor.
By Pete Swabey
UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS
Scottish Power’s network make-over
IP communications speeds engineers to troublespots.
By Pete Swabey
Industry
IT SALARIES
Western Europe leads IT pay
The UK ranks fourth in global IT salary rankings.
By Pete Swabey
DISASTER RECOVERY
Disaster recovery provision 'inadequate'
Nearly half of all DR plans fail when they are needed most.
By Pete Swabey
INTERNET SECURITY
SMBs wrestle with online security
Small and medium-size businesses underestimate spyware
By Hannah Prevett
HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Human resources software goes online
On-demand human capital management applications grow 27%
By Pete Swabey
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Businesses struggle to find value in data
Information overload still prevalent despite content management adoption.
By Pete Swabey
VIRTUALISATION
Citrix finds a competitive streak
Citrix aims to virtualise Windows before Microsoft can
By Phil Jones
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
Microsoft Dynamics aims for best of both worlds
Microsoft aims to add coherence to its Dynamics convergence message.
By Gareth Morgan
SYSTEMS
Return of the king
Michael Dell plans to revive his company's fortunes by mimicking his rivals.
By Gareth Morgan
INFOCONOMY INDEX
IT industry growth stabilises around 12%
Industry index for October
By Pete Swabey
IT INDUSTRY
Month in review
October's news reviewed.
By Pete Swabey
FINANCIAL REPORT
Microsoft still booming despite its size
Plus, a look under the hood of the business intelligence market.
By Pete Swabey
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Networking industry in flux
Cisco buys into WiMax at last, while 3Com's China connection spooks US politicians.
By Pete Swabey
Departments
DOCUMENT TRANSFER
The environmental cost of airborne documents
Documents make up the overwhelming majority of global air cargo.
By Pete Swabey
BOOK
World Class IT Service Delivery
Peter Wheatcroft explores the concepts of quality in terms of IT service, and examines how organisations can excel.
By Gareth Morgan
BOOK
Second Lives
A beginner's guide to online virtual realities.
By Pete Swabey
COMMUNICATIONS
The unified communications revolution
Unified communications technology: productive business boon or over-hyped white elephant?
By Gareth Morgan
SECURITY
Insider: Booze ruse
One New Zealand company hopes to use the power of alcohol in order to retrieve a recently stolen laptop.
By Pete Swabey
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
A grand 3G theory
Technology desperately seeking a killer app.
By Gareth Morgan
CONTACTLESS PAYMENT CARDS
E-wallet watch
Contactless payment cards could at last bring about the oft-predicted 'death of cash', says Information Age editor, Kenny MacIver.
By Pete Swabey
HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES
Microsoft's mind reading patent
Could a worrying patent application from Microsoft point to the future of advertising?
By Pete Swabey
Also with 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
