Features
IT MANAGEMENT
Agility applied at Standard Life
Standard Life's adoption of agile IT techniques has helped it emerge as one of the stars of the pensions sector.
By Pete Swabey
VIRTUAL REALITY
Serious business in virtual worlds
Businesses are exploring the use of virtual worlds for collaboration, training and a host of other 3D web applications.
By Pete Swabey
VIRTUALISATION
Out of the shadows
VMware's CEO Diane Greene has not sought the spotlight, but her company's rampant success has thrust it upon her.
By Phil Jones
Perspective
IT SERVICES
IT services spending heads east
Shifting spending patterns highlight the sea-change in IT services.
By Pete Swabey
DESKTOP SOFTWARE
IBM's pitch for the last mile
The launch of IBM’s free desktop productivity suite portends a new war in the software market.
By Pete Swabey
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Has Microsoft learned to share?
The software titan’s SharePoint Server is shaking up the content management market.
By Pete Swabey
OUTSOURCING News agency Reuters rips up the IT outsourcing rule book.
In safe hands
By Phil Jones
NHS
Q&A - NHS Direct
Murray Bain, IT director at NHS Direct, on the challenges of delivering IT services in an always-on environment.
By Pete Swabey
Industry
MOBILE
Most companies miss-manage mobiles
Poor mobile management policies continue to put enterprises at risk.
By Pete Swabey
IT INDUSTRY
Month in review
September's news reviewed.
By Pete Swabey
INFOCONOMY INDEX
Revival in European IT growth
Industry index for September
By Pete Swabey
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
Infor’s SOA end-game
Mid-market business applications giant looks to SOA to shake its 'collector' reputation.
By Pete Swabey
FINANCIAL REPORT
Oracle, Software AG enjoy the spoils of SOA
Meanwhile, European IT services providers suffer mixed fortunes.
By Pete Swabey
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Sterling embraces its legacy
Integration and applications provider Sterling Commerce tunes its supply chain management strategy.
By Gareth Morgan
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
eCopy smoothes out the paper chase
eCopy streamlines the integration of paper into IT systems.
By Gareth Morgan
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Corizon sets new SOA perspectives
Decoupling the user interface will unleash the power of SOA, says CEO.
By Pete Swabey
DATA CENTRES
Data centre co-location prices set to soar
A shortage of space and power for data centres is driving up prices in the collocation market.
By Pete Swabey
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Information overload
IT managers are struggling to get to grips with the storage of the ever-mounting volume of data within their organisations.
By Pete Swabey
SERVERS
Server market remains buoyant
While interest in virtualisation technologies continues to rise, spending on servers also continues to soar.
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
ANTITRUST
The EC versus Microsoft
If the EC’s anti-trust pursuit of Microsoft is intended to benefit users, it has failed to produce results.
By Pete Swabey
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
Happy tracking
US authorities are causing a stir by increasingly taking advantage of the tracking capabilities of mobile devices.
By Pete Swabey
COMPLIANCE
Subprimal screams
Legislation to reduce risk usually benefits the IT industry the most, argues Information Age's Andrew Lawrence
By Pete Swabey
VIRTUAL REATITY
Virtual worlds
Virtual worlds have the kind of potential last seen at the dawn of the Internet, says Information Age editor, Kenny MacIver.
By Pete Swabey
INTERNET
Cold war web
The USSR lives on.
By Pete Swabey
Insider: Perks of the job
Judging by a number of recent proxy filings, the era of the fat cat lives on.
By Pete Swabey
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
