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• Preparing your teams for software defined networking

  Software defined networking may offer a more reliable and automated network, but administrators need to be prepared before they introduce it to their environment  Continue Reading

• Why IT leaders should adopt a venture capitalist approach

  When it comes to risky ventures, CIOs should take inspiration from their high-flying cousins in the world of venture capitalism  Continue Reading

• In an age of subscription services, ERP is dead

  It’s hard to believe now but there was a time when ERP was hot  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Six questions to ask about security and virtualisation

  How should information security professionals get started with securing virtual environments?  Continue Reading

• 440 million reasons to learn three IT risk lessons

  Companies can change their game to better prevent incidents, enable faster value creation, and avoid wasted time and money when managing risk  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Virtualisation raises three main security issues

  How should information security professionals get started with securing virtual environments?  Continue Reading

• How cloud vendors can sell to the banks

  Martin Maisey, CTO Consulting Division at BJSS explains how cloud vendors can sell to the banks.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Configuration is key to virtual security

  How should information security professionals get started with securing virtual environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Virtual security more than just technology

  How should information security professionals get started with securing virtual environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security in the virtual world still not 100%

  How should information security professionals get started with securing virtual environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security in virtual world requires special considerations

  How should information security professionals get stated with securing virtual environments?  Continue Reading

• RBS and the high cost of failures to business reputation

  Andrew Sinclair, Head of Risk Management, Onyx Group discusses the cost of reputation damage following RBS computer problems.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Hypervisor is key to securing virtual servers

  How should information security professionals get started with securing virtual environments?  Continue Reading

• Has going public lost its appeal?

  Charlie Mayes, managing director of DAV Management, discusses how the public is starting to lose interest in company IPOs.  Continue Reading

• Why are we making 'lose-lose' technologies?

  With access to the lowest interest rates in history, corporates are undertaking a massive capital-intensive restructuring where technology is quietly replacing human jobs  Continue Reading

• Addressing the IT gender imbalance with courage and collaboration

  Mortimer Spinks's managing director discusses the results of the Women in Technology survey 2012  Continue Reading

• To be open or not to be – that is the question

  We are heading to a world where being open, or exploiting open, isn't optional, and for many it will become a question of “to be open or not to be”.  Continue Reading

• Forrester: How to build a security change plan

  When the risk associated with a serious breach becomes overwhelming, organisations must invest to improve the skills, processes and controls  Continue Reading

• Are you up to speed with business relationship management?

  Over the course of the last 12 months there has been an increased amount of discussion around the process of business relationship management (BRM).  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Networking predictions for 2013

  Senior Forrester analyst Andre Kindness reveals his predictions for the networking industry in 2013  Continue Reading

• The importance of trialling before buying

  Caught between the twin storms of fluctuating budgets and rapidly changing technology, IT professionals have very difficult decisions to make.  Continue Reading

• EU court legalises second-hand software

  In a landmark decision, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that the reselling of used software licences is legal.  Continue Reading

• Getting the most from public sector data

  There were plenty of nodding heads within KPMG’s IT Advisory team following a new report by Policy Exchange entitled Big Data Opportunity. The report recognises that the information underpinning public services is an essential asset in the battle...  Continue Reading

• BYOD: Businesses must be clear on data privacy

  Businesses looking to implement a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program must be aware that the parameters of what they can and cannot do with a mobile device management (MDM) platform are governed by local data privacy legislation, which ...  Continue Reading

• Project management: People make projects

  The Major Project Leadership Academy (MLPA), launched in partnership with Oxford University’s Said Business School, will open in October 2012 and aims to double major project success rates.  Its newly trained senior project managers and senior ...  Continue Reading

• The history of the next-generation firewall

  Security expert Rik Ferguson explains how next-generation firewalls were developed and what protection they provide businesses.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Flame shows why risk management is a business essential

  What can enterprise learn from initial analysis of Flame malware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Flame – proceed with caution

  What can enterprise learn from initial analysis of Flame?  Continue Reading

• Tackling the challenges of the next-generation firewall

  Security expert Brian Honan shares top tips on installing and maintaining a next-generation firewall  Continue Reading

• Tech companies facing mounting IP challenges

  The recent flurry of patent buying and selling activity in the global tech sector illustrates dramatic changes in the way some of the biggest technology companies are approaching their intellectual property (IP)  Continue Reading

• Ovum view: The future of software development

  Agile programming is clearly part of the future, IT professionals at Computer Weekly's 500 Club heard last month, though there was tacit agreement among the speakers that agile the verb was key here, and not agile the noun  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security reviews are in order post Flame

  What can enterprise learn from initial analysis of Flame?  Continue Reading

• As cheap as chips: turning the 'internet of things' into business benefits

  To benefit from the internet of things, organisations should develop offerings responsive to the flow of data from chips embedded in products.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Are companies too confident about targeted attacks?

  What can enterprise learn from initial analysis of Flame?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Flame a good reason to keep up with emerging threat analysis

  What can the enterprise learn from the initial analyses of the Flame malware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Flame is an opportunity for businesses to reassess defences

  What can enterprise learn from initial analysis of Flame?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Flame – business must prepare for the unpredictable

  What can enterprise learn from initial analysis of Flame?  Continue Reading

• How a flash array could have limited RBS damage

  The RBS banking system failure shows that its customer account database should be in a flash array to ensure there’s no major bottleneck in the way of rapid recovery.  Continue Reading

• Why IT contractor salaries are rising

  Overall contract rates in London have increased 3.4% year-on-year, which is indicative of where employers’ priorities lie at the moment, with many looking to bring in IT specialists capable of making key improvements on a project basis, according to...  Continue Reading

• Enterprise log managers: An unsexy but vital tool

  In today’s enterprise, you would be culling through millions of events if you were not relying on enterprise log managers to correlate that data  Continue Reading

• Can Nokia's 'next billion' strategy save the company ?

  Nokia is at a cross roads as it pins its recovery hopes on cornering emerging markets. But it will need to work hard to restore market confidence if ts 'next billion' strategy is to succeed.  Continue Reading

• Delivering social change through crowdsourcing

  Free and open source tools now mean that anyone can quickly create an online map to visualise the issue they most care about and use it to build a compelling case for action.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: The only sustainable approach to security is intelligence-led

  What should organisations be doing to benefit from the move to intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Intelligence-led security demands planning ALREADY USED

  What should organisations be doing to benefit from the move to intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Why the Data Communications Bill is proportionate, measured and necessary

  Data-sharing Czar Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom defends Her Majesty's Government's internet monitoring plans in the face of "self-righteous conspiracy theorists".  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Intelligence-led security could give IT pros the edge

  What should organisations be doing to benefit from intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Proof of intelligence-led security is in the metrics

  What should organisations do to fully exploit intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Using big data for intelligence-led security

  How can organisations use big data to yield hidden information of benefit to intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: IT and protective services convergence

  IT professionals can gain a practical understanding of how to prevent criminal attacks from the people-savvy protective services  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: RASP – a must-have security technology

  What should organisations be doing to benefit from the move to intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Intelligence-led security is about risk management

  What should organisations be doing to benefit from move to intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Intelligence-led security is more efficient and effective

  What should organisations be doing to benefit from move to intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Growing out of the socially awkward phase: how marketing and IT can work better together

  IT’s relationship with marketing has often been more strained than with other major parts of the business - what can be done?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security intelligence needs a plan

  What should organisations be doing to benefit from the move towards intelligence-led security?  Continue Reading

• Six steps to plan and prioritise IT investments

  IT service management can play an important part in identifying the right IT investments to make.  Continue Reading

• Has EMC missed out on the hybrid flash array?

  EMC has announced a three-pronged entry into the world of the flash array, but why hasn’t the giant vendor adopted the hybrid flash array pioneered by some innovative startups?  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: Patch me please

  The technical reasons for failing to patch are fading into the past  Continue Reading

• Byte Night 2012: 15 years in the making

  Byte Night, the annual IT industry fundraising event, celebrates its 15th anniversary on this year's 5 October sleep-out.  Continue Reading

• Cookie consent: Preparing for the compliance crunch

  Data privacy specialist Phil Lee from law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse answers some commonly asked questions about the new cookie rules  Continue Reading

• Cloud choices: How to select the right hosted services

  Adopting cloud computing can save money, but it is important to choose the right cloud solution for your business needs  Continue Reading

• The problem of legacy humans in technology projects

  Humans have an annoying habit of resisting change and refusing to conform to the often rigid requirements of a database ontology or software application.  Continue Reading

• History lesson points way forward on data management projects

  Data management projects often suffer from historic amnesia. Projects that co-locate business and IT staff and keep to a manageable scale can achieve remarkable results, says consultant Andy Hayler.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Outsource only run-of-the-mill security functions

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Effective management essential for IT security outsourcing

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three considerations to outsourcing IT security

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: IT security outsourcing should be informed and risk-managed

  Security experts advice on what should and should not be outsourced in IT security  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Effective quality control key to security outsourcing

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Business cannot outsource accountability

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• IT careers: Why relationships are everything

  Former CIO, Dr Robina Chatham, explains why building relationships is the most important IT skill.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: No one-size-fits-all approach to security outsourcing

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Start with capability gap when outsourcing security

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• Why great companies die - repeatedly - and is Microsoft next?

  The Penny Black stamp revolutionised comunications - and taught us lessons that some IT giants today are failing to learn.  Continue Reading

• Professionalising service management will help IT take its seat at the top table

  IT service managers should be at the forefront of efforts to take IT into the boardroom. The present dearth of CEOs who come from an IT background in the UK is a major concern.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Outsourcing of IT security is not for everyone

  What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?  Continue Reading

• Why the public sector is turning to multi-sourcing

  Sarah Burnett explains why the public sector is moving from single sourcing to multi-sourcing, in an age of austerity.  Continue Reading

• The carping of naysayers harms the wielding of influence

  Government data-sharing Czar Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom refutes the leaks that question his commitment to open standards.  Continue Reading

• Time to assess the value of the data you hold

  Martha Bennett offers strategic advice for managing growing volumes of corporate data.  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Innovation In Outsourcing Relationships

  Clients play the most important role in innovation In outsourcing relationships, says Wolfgang Benkel, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research.  Continue Reading

• Leveraging the benefits of ‘Big Data’

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• Emerging markets: The future home of IT spend?

  Cognizant group CEO of technology and operations, R. Chandrasekaran, talks about IT spending in emerging markets  Continue Reading

• Bigger drives mean the RAID rebuild must become a thing of the past

  With 20 TB drives possible by the end of the decade, RAID rebuilds would be unacceptably long. Subdrive and platter-level protection schemes need to be devised to replace them.  Continue Reading

• Three key considerations to deliver benefits from big data

  There is a real commercial advantage to be gained from big data and organisations need to make sure they have the right elements in place to seize that advantage.  Continue Reading

• Government open standards proposal fails the 'so what?' test

  The consultation on open standards in government IT is generating a lot of discussion, much of which misses an important point: so what?  Continue Reading

• Open standards are about the business model, not the technology

  Software companies, abuzz with lobbyists and patent lawyers over government open standards, are similar to the record industry 10 years ago.  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: Business continuity: putting the plan to work

  A strong business continuity model – with performance criteria and supporting management systems – is required to assure a workable roadmap to recovery  Continue Reading

• How tech geeks in Africa are transforming IT education

  Zambia, like the UK, is awash with unemployed graduates. But tech geeks in Africa are helping each other to fill the gap left by deficient education.  Continue Reading

• How to get IT right in mergers and acquisitions

  Charlie Mayes offers advice on IT-business integration as mergers and acquisitions begin to take off.  Continue Reading

• An insider's view on the government open standards consultation

  Andy Hopkirk chaired the first public meeting of the government's open standards consultation. He gives his report on the debate.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How can business achieve compliance and security? (Part 8)

  What can businesses do to make regulatory compliance a priority without losing focus on security basics?  Continue Reading

• BATS software bug hits business strategy

  Randy Clark, chief marketing officer at IT automation firm UC4 Software, writes about the withdrawal of a planned IPO at trading exchange BATS  Continue Reading

• The implications of identity assurance for public services

  Jerry Fishenden, chairman of the ID Assurance privacy and consumer stakeholder group, says a new approach to identity will transform government IT.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How can business achieve compliance and security? (Part 7)

  What can businesses do to make regulatory compliance a priority without losing focus on security basics?  Continue Reading

• What businesses need to do before the cookie law deadline

  Organisations have to get their house in order ahead of the 26 May 2012 deadline for European e-commerce regulations governing the use of cookies.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How businesses can achieve compliance and security (Part 6)

  What can businesses do to make regulatory compliance a priority without losing focus on security basics?  Continue Reading

• What will training look like in the workplace of the future?

  Kevin Young (pictured), head of SkillSoft EMEA, explains the impact of technology on education  Continue Reading

• Maintaining our communications data capability

  Dictated and sent without sight by Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom, Data-sharing Czar in Her Majesty's Government.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How businesses can achieve compliance and security (part 5)

  What can businesses do to make regulatory compliance a priority without losing focus on security basics?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How businesses can achieve compliance and security

  What can businesses do to make regulatory compliance a priority without losing focus on security basics?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How businesses can achieve compliance and security

  What can businesses do to make regulatory compliance a priority without losing focus on security basics?  Continue Reading

• The storage startups’ war of the flea against big vendors

  Storage startups constantly wage war against the big storage vendors, which face attacks on many different fronts. But it’s all in the game and keeps the storage world turning.  Continue Reading