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• Security Think Tank: How to keep data secure when resident or used by cloud applications

  How can businesses make use of free or low cost cloud storage services and ensure data is safe and secure?  Continue Reading

• Gartner: Benefits of mobile collaboration

  The rapid adoption of smart devices, both in the workplace and outside, has raised expectations about accessibility and user experience  Continue Reading

• Cloud storage creeps up the enterprise agenda

  Research from 451 Group sees private cloud storage ranked second most common storage project and public cloud in fourth  Continue Reading

• The politics of software asset management

  A software asset manager's tips on convincing people they really don'y have to run the software they insist is essential.  Continue Reading

• One step ahead - the importance of staying in control of your organisation’s BYOD policy

  As every CIO is probably no doubt sick of hearing by now, ‘the era of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is here’. Employees now expect to be connected 24/7 to allow greater flexibility and productivity, and companies now need to judge how they can best ...  Continue Reading

• Google, privacy and data protection: One step beyond (the law)?

  A hearing in the High Court has seen Google challenge the applicability of English Law to its operations in the UK, which run off servers based in California  Continue Reading

• The power of a million What is £1 million worth?

  What is £1 million worth? At present it will get you an 86th of Welsh footballer Gareth Bale. That is approximately an ear lobe.  Continue Reading

• IT security: could you be the key?

  Traditional strong authentication methods are useful to business, but must start thinking about how we can extend this to users  Continue Reading

• Is the smart meter programme really doomed? Don’t panic...

  The UK's £11bn smart meter roll-out has been heavily criticised - but is it really the disaster in the making that it has been portrayed?  Continue Reading

• Match disk type to VMs to boost VMware storage performance

  All too often storage is the bottleneck in VMware performance. That can be solved by matching underlying VMware storage to the needs of the application and workload  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Physical security should be replicated in cyber world

  The rapid rise in cyber espionage highlights the need to rethink data security strategies to improve protection of intellectual property. But what is the best way of doing that?  Continue Reading

• Enterprise IT skills must keep pace with game-changing technologies

  Virtually all of the most important technologies emerging for businesses require new IT learning, thinking and behaviour  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five steps to protect IP from cyber espionage

  The rapid rise in cyber espionage highlights the need to rethink data security strategies to improve protection of intellectual property. But what is the best way of doing that?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: IP protection is as weak as the weakest link – fix the supply chain security

  The rapid rise in cyber espionage highlights the need to rethink data security strategies to improve protection of intellectual property. But what is the best way of doing that?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Follow an information-led, risk-based process to protect IP

  The rapid rise in cyber espionage highlights the need to rethink data security strategies to improve protection of intellectual property. But what is the best way of doing that?  Continue Reading

• When to use flash SSD instead of SAS or SATA?

  When to use flash SSDs instead of SAS or SATA spinning disk is all down to application requirements, says David Boyle, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK)  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Identify and protect the crown jewels

  The rapid rise in cyber espionage highlights the need to rethink data security strategies to improve protection of intellectual property. But what is the best way of doing that?  Continue Reading

• Four key questions in disaster recovery planning

  The answers to four key questions will tell you if your organisation’s disaster recovery planning is up to the job  Continue Reading

• BI: From specialist capability to mass-market availability

  Pringle & Company analyst advocates business-led business intelligence (BI). Three barriers must go: complexity, excessive cost, undue duration  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Your sensitive information is at risk

  The rapid rise in cyber espionage highlights the need to rethink data security strategies to improve protection of intellectual property. But what is the best way of doing that?  Continue Reading

• The Death Of Cloud Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

  Revelations about the extent of US and UK government surveillance on the internet will not mean the death of cloud computing, but companies will change their approach.  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Three Best Practice Tips For Business Intelligence Success

  Martha Bennett gives three essential tips to help you ensure your BI project is a success.  Continue Reading

• How to appoint a new outsourcing supplier

  Outsourcing can come with its own security risks if not managed appropriately, making due diligence and clear contractual arrangements key  Continue Reading

• How to handle a software audit

  Software audits are an irritating and time consuming part of life. To survive one unscathed you'll need a thorough understanding of your licensing requirements.  Continue Reading

• The dangers of internet cafés

  Businesses need clear computer use policies and need to ensure staff are properly trained in data protection, writes Garry Mackay  Continue Reading

• The data fragmentation challenge

  Few organisations have policies to guide where data should and should not be stored. The result: data fragmentation  Continue Reading

• Avoiding the mistakes of NPfIT in new NHS IT contracts

  What are the contracting experiences of NHS Trusts who have started their own IT procurement, and how can mistakes of the past be avoided?  Continue Reading

• Whiteboard it – the power of graph databases

  Graph databases map relationships between entities in a network. They won’t replace conventional relational databases, but for harnessing the value of interconnectedness they mark a breakthrough  Continue Reading

• Near field communication (NFC): Latest shockwave of the technological invasion

  By Vedak Coskun, co-author of "Professional NFC Application Development for Android"  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Best practice tips for business intelligence success

  Recognising the importance of data and analytics is one thing; putting in place the right processes and tools is a different matter  Continue Reading

• A lesson in understanding your customers

  Allowing small businesses to benefit from the latest technology without the need for specialist skills is important to the economy - but some vendors forget this  Continue Reading

• Is it time for object storage to shine?

  Object storage is a great fit for very large, unstructured datasets, and with big data and cloud use cases. So, what is holding up adoption of this promising technology?  Continue Reading

• The ideology of hacking

  Business leaders need to be educated on the true threats their firms face and IT security professionals have to arm their executives with that information  Continue Reading

• How to lead when change is the new normal

  Business leaders need to think about the impact of ubiquitous technology on their future employees and the vastly different expectations they will have  Continue Reading

• Mobile IT could be more disruptive than anticipated

  Vanson Bourne's latest research reveals mobile IT could be more disruptive than CIOs and senior management anticipate  Continue Reading

• iPhone sales boosts investor confidence in Apple

  Apple posts revenues of $35.3bn and net profit of $6.9bn for the quarter ending June 2013, sending the share price up nearly 5%  Continue Reading

• Understand your security risks

  Information is at risk – and organisations have to adequately protect their corporate information, especially the “crown jewels”  Continue Reading

• How to assess the security of a cloud service provider

  As businesses continue to put more information online, understanding cloud suppliers and agreements has never been more important  Continue Reading

• An evidence-based approach must underpin digital transformation

  The government IT profession needs to question failings in IT delivery and consider a different approach to business analysis  Continue Reading

• When the going gets tough, it sometimes makes sense to spend

  Sometimes it makes sense for IT departments to increase their spending when economic conditions are tough  Continue Reading

• Why the internet is forcing retailers to rethink their supply chains

  The growth of internet shopping is causing retailers to radically rethink the way they manage their supply chains  Continue Reading

• Byte Night 2013: Why bigger is better

  Byte Night, the UK’s largest charity sleep-out event, will be bigger than ever before, with the aim of raising £1m in a single night  Continue Reading

• The digital silver lining for technology inclusivity

  Mainstream devices are becoming increasingly user-friendly for disabled people as design becomes more inclusive for all of us  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Prism fallout could be worse than security risks

  Does the data collected by Prism put the US Government at risk from other state or non-state sponsored activists?  Continue Reading

• Cut big data down to size

  Big data value comes from interactive discovery not possible with standard business intelligence implementations, says HCL EAS  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Prism is dangerous for everyone

  Does the data collected by Prism put the US Government at risk from other state or non-state sponsored activists?  Continue Reading

• Storage virtualisation: An old idea being revived?

  When storage virtualisation first emerged, some did their best to ensure it didn’t succeed. Now the EMC appears to be reviving it. What’s going on with ViPR?  Continue Reading

• BBC's DMI project failure is a warning to all organisations

  The decision to cancel the BBC’s Digital Media Initiative (DMI) with nothing to show for the almost £100m spent on it should be a warning to other organisations about the risks involved in large-scale IT projects  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Make security and compliance part of workflow to achieve balance

  What is the best way to balance business need for network and application access with security and regulatory requirements?  Continue Reading

• The challenges of information governance in our increasingly litigious age

  Formulating the right enterprise-wide information governance policies is essential in heading off potential legal and compliance costs  Continue Reading

• Why companies are turning to application virtualisation

  More people are ‘getting’ the idea that you can virtualise selectively  Continue Reading

• IT needs soldiers

  The government has recognised that its returning troops can bring value to Britain. Unfortunately it has backed the wrong profession.  Continue Reading

• Cloud security for SMEs: Seven key steps

  Seven steps which SMEs should follow when considering a cloud service, selecting a cloud provider and managing a cloud contract  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Checklists are dead, long live risk-driven security

  What is the best way to balance business need for network and application access with security and regulatory requirements?  Continue Reading

• Ordnance Survey: Insurance industry can harness big data analytics

  Harnessing the power of big data presents insurers with a business opportunity. But is this industry ready for it?  Continue Reading

• How to build a website security programme

  Follow this step-by-step strategy for building a website security programme that yields results  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Avoid disruption and build on the context

  What is the best way to balance business need for network and application access with security and regulatory requirements?  Continue Reading

• Giving UK SMEs the digital tools they need

  It is vital that organisations use the digital tools at their disposal to ensure they are able to take advantage of growth opportunities.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Understanding risk key to security balance

  What is the best way to balance business need for network and application access with security and regulatory requirements?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four ways to balance access and security

  What is the best way to balance business need for network and application access with security and regulatory requirements?  Continue Reading

• Information security: From “bored” to “board”

  As the threat landscape is changing, the real question lies in what information security professionals can do to get board-level backing  Continue Reading

• Managing costs on your journey to cloud

  Procuring cloud services can be relatively easy, but integrating them into existing IT environments can be complicated  Continue Reading

• Impressions of the latest BlackBerry 10 devices

  Freeform Dynamics analyst Dale Vile shares his experience of using the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 smartphones for business  Continue Reading

• Reclaiming the role of the CIO

  It has become fashionable to question the value of the role of CIO, but much of this discourse is both self-serving and without foundation  Continue Reading

• Overcoming communication barriers to successful IT implementation

  There are many hurdles to success in an IT project that are principally issues of communication  Continue Reading

• Forrester: CIOs need to support the workplace of the future now

  Increasing workplace diversity requires new thinking about how and where staff do their work. Forrester offers tips for CIOs  Continue Reading

• How to manage big data and reap the benefits

  IT security group Isaca examines the benefits of managing big data and offers seven tips for staying in control  Continue Reading

• Byte Night 2013: Rain will not stop play

  Byte Night, the annual IT industry fundraiser, is aiming to raise £1m from this year's charity sleep-out  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Cloud, BYOD and security – lock your doors

  With BYOD and the growth of the personal cloud being used at work, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role in security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Management is key to secure BYOD

  With BYOD and the growth of the personal cloud being used at work, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role in security?  Continue Reading

• Enterprise architects: Please leave your framework at the door

  Enterprise architects should use architecture frameworks for inspiration, rather than trying to apply the entire structure to their organisation  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: MDM just one way to lower the risk of BYOD

  With BYOD and the growth of the personal cloud being used at work, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role in security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: BYOD – a challenge and an opportunity

  With the growth of BYOD, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data – and does MDM have a role?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: BYOD means the map is no longer the territory

  With the growth of BYOD and personal cloud at work, how can IT ensure the security of corporate data and does MDM have a role?  Continue Reading

• Making sense of SAP HANA and in-memory computing – a user view

  For SAP users, in-memory computing tools such as SAP HANA promise to deliver a step change when it comes to data processing and analysis  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: BYOD – key tenets and best practices

  With BYOD and the growth of the personal cloud being used at work, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role in security?  Continue Reading

• Will proposed changes to European data protection law prove unworkable?

  Data protection law in Europe is set to change, but it remains unclear if all proposals are workable  Continue Reading

• The future of application development

  As cloud adoption continues to increase , most organisations are making important decisions in executing their cloud strategies  Continue Reading

• Is antivirus worth the investment?

  Antivirus is at best a sticking plaster – we need a better approach to dealing with malware.  Continue Reading

• What IT managers need to know about risky file-sharing

  Business professionals must share files regularly to be collaborative, but there are issues that IT managers should be aware of.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: MDM is no BYOD silver bullet

  With BYOD and personal cloud at work, what measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role?  Continue Reading

• Hot hiring areas in the IT jobs market

  The overall picture in the jobs market over the past year has been mixed, but demand is extremely strong in some areas  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: BYOD security: policy, control, containment, and management

  With the growth of BYOD, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data – and does MDM have a role?  Continue Reading

• Why IT education is failing

  There are a plethora of UK IT educational projects and initiatives but no focus or urgency to channel the energy of teachers, says entrepreneur, Rick Chandler.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Embrace BYOD, but be wary of the risks

  With BYOD and the growth of the personal cloud being used at work, what security measures can IT take to ensure security of enterprise data and does MDM really have a role in security?  Continue Reading

• The Great Deverticalisation – part 5: Mind the GaaP

  Politicians and government have the opportunity, through the power of open platforms, to take the lead in creating modern public services  Continue Reading

• 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