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• Empowering users: It is not all about BYOD

  The real benefits of bring your own device (BYOD) only arise when the right culture and mindset are developed  Continue Reading

• Forrester: The secrets of digital disruption

  Companies can exploit digital disruption to unleash the next wave of innovation, says Forrester Research  Continue Reading

• Why IT contracts are bound to fail

  Traditional IT contracts are ill-suited for today’s dynamic and consumer-driven business environment  Continue Reading

• First BYOD, now BYON poses security challenge

  Like BYOD before it, the march of BYON is happening silently, stealthily and almost completely outside of management control  Continue Reading

• Why the cloud is not a security nightmare

  A well-governed cloud initiative can deliver significant value to an enterprise, writes News International CISO Amar Singh  Continue Reading

• How to negotiate and assure cloud services

  This guide provides the top tips to negotiating and assuring cloud services  Continue Reading

• Putting the 'I' back into IT with data strategies big and small

  The "next big thing" is information itself. Whether big data, unstructured data or open data, the emphasis is shifting to the 'I' in IT  Continue Reading

• Going digital: No simple solutions for information security professionals

  Technology evolution is proving itself to be something of a double-edged sword  Continue Reading

• Industry's moral obligation to young people

  More than half of large IT-dependent organisations and most small non-technical, IT-dependent businesses across the UK are stuck in a growth and profits limbo due to shortages of skilled IT staff  Continue Reading

• Is the pace of innovation slowing down?

  if you are not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you are not doing anything very innovative  Continue Reading

• Agile government: What the UK can learn from the US

  The UK has a unique window of opportunity to learn from the US approach to agile project management  Continue Reading

• Interflora versus M&S: taking advantage of the internet

  The long-standing dispute on the trademark infringement of the Interflora brand by M&S in keyword advertising will be decided by the High Court in mid-April 2013  Continue Reading

• The Great Deverticalisation - part 4: The role of the private sector

  Why do we persist in running vertically integrated organisations when standardising many of these processes would free us up to do things so much better, and more cheaply?  Continue Reading

• Visualisation and big data: new tools, same rules

  A new breed of data visualisation tools can work with big data. But they need governance to avoid Excel on steroids, and require greater agility of IT  Continue Reading

• The I/O blender means enterprise flash is here to stay

  451 Group analyst Simon Robinson explains why enterprise flash is worthy of its hype and will consign HDDs to the background  Continue Reading

• Stop service providers becoming data security Achilles heel

  Minimising cyber security risks through third-party suppliers is a challenge facing many organisations.  Continue Reading

• Securing the hypervisor: expert tips

  There are many potential security issues with the various components of a virtualised infrastructure, and nowhere is this more of a concern than with the hypervisor platforms that host virtual systems and application instances  Continue Reading

• Can open innovation offer an alternative to patent disputes?

  2012 saw a string of patent wars between technology innovators with Apple and Samsung squaring up to protect their intellectual property (IP)  Continue Reading

• How to create business value from social intelligence

  Social media gives access to huge amounts of data about markets, customers and competitors. The challenge is to turn this into intelligence  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Context-aware security saves time

  How should businesses approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• How to ensure information security is at the heart of the business

  If infosec professionals want to be accepted as crucial around the decision-making table, they must embrace change and review their approach  Continue Reading

• The Great Deverticalisation - part 3: New skills and structures in the public sector

  Why do we persist in running vertically integrated organisations when standardising many of these processes would free us up to do things so much better, and more cheaply?  Continue Reading

• Turning retail space into a digital environment

  Robin Young, COO of Mitchells and Butlers, on turning its pubs and restaurants into digital environments to attract new customers  Continue Reading

• Embrace BYOD and manage the risks

  BYOD might sound like an invitation (bring), but it is actually more of a rebellion (I’m bringing). Firms must get ready  Continue Reading

• High Growth Segment market boosts UK technology companies

  High Growth Segment – a market just launched by the London Stock Exchange – allows access to capital for investors and fast-growing firms  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: High levels of control require detailed security intelligence

  How should business approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage: The reality beneath the hype

  The rise of storage software and APIs on commodity hardware means there is something in the idea of software-defined storage.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Context-aware tech does not eliminate human touch

  How should business approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• Ordnance Survey gets to grips with geospatial big data

  Ordnance Survey has pulled 17 databases into one Oracle geospatial database management platform  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Context, the 5 Ws and H of security

  How should business approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• Selling online? A guide to complying with the PCI

  PCI-DSS compliance can leave retailers confused about how best to approach this daunting task. What is it they actually need to do?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: context-aware security is business-aware security

  How should business approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• Cyber security – the best weapon remains good information security hygiene

  By understanding the threats they face, organisations can mobilise IT systems and staff to defeat all but the most expert and determined adversary  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: New tech trends fuel need for context-based security

  How should firms approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Begin switch to context-aware security now, says Gartner

  How should business approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• Tips for master data management best practice

  Master data management (MDM) projects must be business-owned, joined up, and proven step-by-step  Continue Reading

• Students set the IT agenda through BYOD schemes

  Kevin Papworth, UK Director at education IT supplier Ellucian describes how BYOD is changing the use of IT within higher education  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Context-aware security is about more than buying technology

  How should business approach context-aware security technologies and what will be the business benefit?  Continue Reading

• Improving the odds of succeeding with IT investments

  How IT departments can increase the effect of IT projects on the business  Continue Reading

• SMEs open to public cloud – provided it is easy with local sales and support

  It is no surprise that small and medium-sized businesses are the most inclined to adopt and use public cloud to deliver the majority of their IT, but there are significant barriers to overcome  Continue Reading

• The Great Deverticalisation - part 2: The power of open

  The public sector has the opportunity, through the power of 'open', to take the lead in creating organisations for the future success of UK plc  Continue Reading

• Integrated business services address enterprise MDM, analytics

  Accenture contends that integrated business services joined to master data management (MDM) can create an enterprise-wide master data, reporting and analytics capability  Continue Reading

• Windows 8 - the challenge of moving to a new operating system

  Microsoft launched its Windows 8 operating system (OS) in 2012, promising manifold benefits - but what are the challenges of moving OS?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three key security questions on web-based apps

  What are the security pitfalls of web-based applications and how are they best avoided?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Web-based app security needs data-centric, risk-based approach

  What are the security pitfalls of web-based applications and how are they best avoided?  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: A three-dimensional approach to BYOD (part 2)

  Employees are the first line of defence and crucial to BYOD success, but process and technology are equally important  Continue Reading

• 2013: a year of software-defined storage, convergence and cloud

  Simon Robinson of 451 Research says storage optimisation is the watchword of 2013, with software-defined storage, convergence and cloud also key trends  Continue Reading

• Getting the right processes in place to benefit from big data

  Most executives recognise that the vast amounts of data coming into their organisation can be used to make the business better, but few are taking full advantage  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Tips for software contract negotiation

  Forrester's Mark Bartrick offers four essential tips on negotiating successful IT contracts  Continue Reading

• The great deverticalisation – part 1: the street

  Why do we persist in running vertically integrated organisations when standardising many of these processes would free us up to do things so much better, and more cheaply?  Continue Reading

• Unleash the value of consumer data

  Companies' ability to capture, mine and analyse consumer information has the potential to deliver economic value  Continue Reading

• Tips for reducing security risks in 2013

  What security threats will your business face in 2013?  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: A three-dimensional approach to BYOD

  Minimise the security threat of BYOD by taking a three-dimensional approach involving people, process and technology  Continue Reading

• How to build a business continuity and recovery plan

  Practical tips on how to build a comprehensive business continuity and recovery plan for your business  Continue Reading

• How to persuade the CFO to back your IT project

  Michael Blackstaff explains a few techniques that can be the difference between your IT project winning over the board or being left on the shelf  Continue Reading

• Tips for carve-outs: How to improve your IT competitiveness

  How can businesses make their IT more efficient and still cut their technology costs? Amit Laud offers some essential tips  Continue Reading

• Open source is just a weapon

  If open source is rapidly growing and dominating many industries, should the answer to every IT question be "open source"?  Continue Reading

• Developing the modern datacentre into a services hub

  More businesses are choosing private cloud over public cloud. Analyst Andrew Buss explains why  Continue Reading

• How non-relational database technologies free up data to create value

  Instead of having to force structures onto their data, organisations can choose NoSQL database architectures, combining these with conventional relational databases to drive new value.  Continue Reading

• Tips for better governance and compliance

  What is the relationship between regulation, governance and IT, and how can they contribute in ways that support the business?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Infosec and the business – the symbiotic relationship

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Seven Easy Wins for the IT Project Manager

  Alan Garvey offers 7 tips to help IT project managers make an impact.  Continue Reading

• How to estimate IT project timescales

  Bob Hughes offers essential tips to accurately estimate the effort and time required for IT projects.  Continue Reading

• Rackspace CTO predictions for 2013

  Rackspace chief technology officer John Engates gives his IT predictions for 2013  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Basic engagement principles can boost IT security’s profile

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Evaluate IT security investments

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four steps to show value of IT security

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Infosec professionals need to communicate value to business

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: A risk-based approach to security is key to business alignment

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Information security is not optional

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: People and risk key to aligning security and business

  How can information security make business sense?  Continue Reading

• Five steps to climbing the IT security ladder

  Five steps to help stay ahead of the pack in IT security  Continue Reading

• Mind the digital gap - a strategy for accessibility

  There still exists a digital gap and it is vital to understand the ways in which digital exclusion might be remedied in the future  Continue Reading

• Technology is helping the fight against corruption

  All over the world citizens are using new technology to shine a light on fraud and bribery, and to blow the whistle on corrupt practices  Continue Reading

• Forrester: The impact of cloud on outsourcing contracts

  Although still in its early stages, the transition of outsourcing engagements toward cloud-based models has begun  Continue Reading

• Getting to grips with managing supply and demand

  The way that companies connect with each other to do business can have a big effect on overall performance  Continue Reading

• The DNA of the CIO

  CIOs need to stop ignoring the inevitable and start changing before they are forced to  Continue Reading

• Don’t get spiked by a spear phisher

  How to avoid the latest hacking techniques: the telltale signs that a spear phishing attack is in action; how to deflect it; and how to contain damage  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Ask the right data security questions in M&As

  What role do IT security professionals play in mergers and acquisitions?  Continue Reading

• Outsourcing reference data management

  Andy Efstathiou assesses the case for outsourcing reference data management  Continue Reading

• Why we need vocational training

  Charlie Mayes argues the case for vocational learning  Continue Reading

• Did your last presentation make a difference?

  How to avoid death by PowerPoint. Martin Sykes explains the secret of a successful presentation.  Continue Reading

• BYOD: Bring your own device – or demise?

  Nitin Bhas from Juniper research discusses the impact bring your own device (BYOD) polices are making on the enterprise  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: In M&As, watch the exits

  What is the role of IT security professionals in mergers and acquisitions?  Continue Reading

• 4G auction is an opportunity to invest in innovation

  The UK will soon begin to auction the 4G mobile spectrum, raising as much as £4bn. How that money is spent will be a test of what the UK really values  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Added burden for information systems professionals in M&As

  What role do IT security professionals play in mergers and acquisitions?  Continue Reading

• European Commission should keep its hands out of the cloud

  Would you be surprised that the European Commission believes the way to promote the growth of cloud computing is to regulate it?  Continue Reading

• Trusted computing for industrial control systems and infrastructure

  The Trusted Computing Group’s open standards now include specifications for securing industrial control systems and infrastructure  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Infosec needs to be part of all M&A processes

  What is the role of IT security professionals in mergers and acquisitions?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use M&As to reinvigorate security policy

  What role do IT security professionals play in mergers and acquisitions?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security often overlooked in M&As

  What role do IT security professionals play in mergers and acquisitions?  Continue Reading

• Get serious about people risk to reduce cyber crime

  Organisations can become blinded by compliance to the point where they have a false sense of assurance about managing people-related risk.  Continue Reading

• Lack of understanding inhibits big data adoption

  Most organisations have no clear understanding of the advanced data analytics technologies now hitting the markets  Continue Reading

• Why Atos is eliminating email

  At best, email is a distraction – while at worst it can lead to a drop in performance and employee disengagement, writes Lee Timmins  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: Do you need a CISO?

  Does an organisation really need a chief information security officer or chief information officer?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Make IP theft personal

  IP theft: who should be tackling it and how?  Continue Reading

• How IT is supporting the next generation of artists and designers at Birmingham City University

  Birmingham City University’s new campus buildings are part of a £180m investment in new facilities with IT at its core  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Blocking IP theft takes technology and trust

  IP theft: who should be tackling it and how?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SABSA will go a long way in preventing IP theft

  IP theft: who should be tackling it and how?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: IP theft: Have you got all the bases covered?

  IP theft: who should be tackling it and how?  Continue Reading