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• 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

• Security Think Tank: You can’t protect what you don’t know you’ve got

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

• The socially intelligent project manager

  IQ alone is not enough to determine project success. Good project managers also require social intelligence  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Least privilege is key to blocking IP theft

  Intellectual property (IP) theft: Who should be tackling it and how?  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Five important guidelines for business technology governance

  Forrester believes that "good" IT governance is business technology governance – a conscious process by senior executives to establish strategies, structures, processes, and measurements for the management of technology to boost business results  Continue Reading

• Byte Night 2012: Bigger, better, wetter

  It may have been one of the wettest Byte Nights ever, but it was also the largest Byte Night ever and the most profitable Byte Night ever  Continue Reading

• How to make IT contracts agile

  Agile software methodologies have been around for years, yet many in the legal profession still feel they are entering unchartered waters  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Block IP theft with policy, process and controls

  IP theft affects almost all buinesses, observes no national boundaries and costs economies billions - so who should be tackling it and how?  Continue Reading

• Consumer capital: The new reality of 21st century data exchange

  Consumers are beginning a counter-offensive against the monopoly that industry has enjoyed over the spoils of big data  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: Passwords: Help users discover what is available!

  As company policy requires passwords to be stronger than ever, here are some tips to help employees cope  Continue Reading

• A new age of sentimental data

  Sentiment-analysis is nothing new - we just have new ways of capturing multiple digital sources and making better sense of the data  Continue Reading

• How history of security shows we have not learnt our lesson

  There is no security control more effective than a diligent system administrator  Continue Reading

• How IT security can drive business and enable innovation

  The most critical IT security challenge is to be able to see the whole picture, understand the business needs and find solutions  Continue Reading

• Customer relationship management vs business relationship management

  Business relationship management (BRM) and customer relationship management (CRM) are different, yet must work hand-in-hand  Continue Reading

• Does the EC's cloud strategy go far enough?

  The European Commission (EC) launched its cloud strategy last week. Legal experts put it under the spotlight to see if it goes far enough  Continue Reading

• Where does the ICO's new cloud guidance take you?

  It is not possible to follow the ICO's advice on cloud computing and still have a “cloud” solution  Continue Reading

• IT support at the heart of Byte Night’s success

  The IT industry charity sleep-out, Byte Night, takes place on 5 October, and this promises to be a record-breaking year  Continue Reading

• Changing lives through technology innovation

  Technology such as open source can radically change the way an organisation operates and for users it has the ability to change their lives  Continue Reading

• Where is your Data Migration DMZ?

  Johny Morris, author of Practical Data Migration, looks at how changes to procurement practices have created a trap for the unwary to fall into  Continue Reading

• Moving on from a culture of collaboration by email

  The time has come to think seriously about enterprise social networking (ESN) and consider its role within wider enterprise collaboration strategy.  Continue Reading

• Windows 8 – Beauty and the Beast?

  Quocirca analyst, Clive Longbottom, looks at whether corporates should consider deploying Windows 8.  Continue Reading

• How to ensure you are getting the right cloud service

  How can an organisation use an indirect governance to assure trust in cloud services?  Continue Reading

• Intel Developer Forum 2012 focuses on wireless

  Andrew Buss reviews the technology on show at Intel's 2012 Developer Forum in San Francisco.  Continue Reading

• How to make effective use of social media in your job search

  Useful advice on using various social media platforms such as Twitter and LinkedIn to land your next IT job  Continue Reading

• IT's growth / austerity paradox

  As the political world argues about economics, one of the intriguing things about IT is its ability to drive both growth and austerity  Continue Reading