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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

  • March 2009

    Ten software-as-a-service success stories, IT benchmarking, web accessibility, Whitbread Q&A

  • February 2009

    Financing IT in the downturn, South Africa's BPO ambitions, data integration, Ministry of Justice Q&A

  • January 2009

    The Effective IT Report 2009: the technology trends that will be shaping business in 2009

  • December 2008

    Cloud computing, Enterprise search, IT for the M Business, Information Age Global Technology Review 2008

  • November 2008

    IT and the recession, Enterprise mash-ups, Superhacker Gary McKinnon on corporate security. Research Report: Service management

  • October 2008

    Ten Web 2.0 business success stories, software asset management, Enterprise Security 08, an interview with Michael Dell

  • September 2008

    Mobile security, human capital management, Bank of America. Research Report: Virtual encounters

  • August 2008

    Desktop virtualisation, unified communications, cultrual dimensions in offshore outsourcing.

  • July 2008

    The evolution of the CIO, Agile development, enterprise content management. Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2008

  • June 2008

    Offshore innovation, Green IT in action, storage deduplication. Management report: Business Intelligence 08. Research Report: The value of IT

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