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Reader survey

Management & Skills

What are IT leaders thinking?

Information Age's 2012 reader survey reveals the UK IT management profession's priorities for the coming year

Year in review

The Cloud & Virtualization

Cloud computing – still gathering

Cloud computing did not see a landslide of adoption in 2011, but concrete examples of cloud in action are now abundant

Comms & Networking

Handling mobility

Both IT departments and the hardware industry will continue to struggle with the smartphone and tablet revolution in 2012

Information Management

Big in 2012?

Technology is emerging that helps organisations analyse more data at greater spead. But do mainstream business really need it?

Information Management

The revolution continues

Despite the fact that it has now been around for years, social media continues to disrupt technologies and organisational hierarchies

Information Management

IT's focus shifts to data management

There are signs that data management is eclipsing applications as the IT department’s primary focus

Security & Continuity

Showing up security 

Hacktivists and cyber criminals continued to make a mockery of the security practices of some of the world's most respected organisations in 2011

Information Management

The data protection gaffes of 2011

A look back at some of the worst infringements of data protection by businesses and the public sector last year

Information Management

Is open data under threat?

Many advocates of open data were dismayed by developments in 2011

Information Management

Who controls 'smart' data?

The UK’s coming smart meter roll-out will set the precedent on how much control individuals have over data collected by ‘smart’ systems

IT Services

Talent economics

Outsourcing was back in vogue in 2011 but a movement to address the IT skills gap in the UK began in earnest 

Management & Skills

Out of their hands

Analysts are predicting that technology trends will further dimiinsh the CIO's control over IT procurement

Back Issues

  • January 2011

    The Effective IT Report 2011: Which IT strategies did Information Age readers adopt in 2010, and what does the coming year hold?

  • December 2010

    Cloud computing from Japan, IT trends in the legal sector and is enterprise 2.0 dead? 

  • November 2010

    Transforming IT cost management, the impact of virtualisation on storage, how Cambridge became the UK's technology hub

  • September 2010

    Recruiting the IT leaders of tomorrow, steps to data governance, IT in the pharmaceuticals industry, How BA uses Agile

  • August 2010

    Enteprise mobile applications, in-memory databases, eight steps to data governance, IT cost control

  • July 2010

    Seven ways technology can make business more energy efficient, collective intelligence, Conference report: the Future of the Data Centre

  • June 2010

    The evolution of outsourcing, social media analytics, software development frameworks, Q&A – Aviva Europe

  • May 2010

    Data centre Smart Grid, visual analytics, Hosting & Managed Services – conference report, Washington DC's open data initiative

  • April 2010

    Complex event processing and sensors, IT security in the cloud, data management industry analysis, Q&A - Virgin Trains

  • March 2010

    The return of pre-integrated system 'stacks', unified communications and social media, Seminar report: Managing IT Cost Effectively, Q&A - Royal Mail

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