Information Professional
Print ISSN
1743-694X
Published online from 2004-2007, this magazine provided in-depth coverage on developments in IT, with an emphasis on the skills needed to work with them, on emerging technologies, and how they affected the IT professional moving forward. Management and strategy issues, such as project costing and control, were also covered.
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Sector specific
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Key ICT contract news from the retail, law, local authority and food sectors.
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Alliances key to Japan's move into enterprise IT
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There are excellent examples of computer, software and services companies that have made it big in the wider world - Fujitsu and Hitachi, say - but, aside from them, Japanese players in the global IT space are few and far between. There's no doubting Japan's achievements as a high-tech powerhouse, but is has not made the inroads into the corporate IT market that match its dominance of consumer electronics.
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Ethernet hits the highway [enterprise-wide network]
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This development has really opened the floodgates for carrier Ethernet by extending it right across the enterprise rather than just large offices. For SMEs and branch offices, therefore, carrier Ethernet has a double appeal. On the one hand it at last created a coherent enterprise-wide network gaining fully from Ethernet's economies of scale, with the distinction between LAN and WAN remaining only for service management purposes, avoiding the previous costly protocol conversions. On the other hand, carrier Ethernet delivers much more affordable bandwidth, which is why it is being adopted for example by mobile operators for backhauling data from cellular towers. The age of ubiquitous Ethernet has truly arrived.
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Contributors
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My way: Interview with Michael Barrett
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Michael Barrett, chief information security officer at PayPal, oversees the information systems and services that protect the integrity and confidentiality of PayPal information. Barrett is leading PayPal's partnership with online giants Yahoo! and eBay in a major technology infrastructure safety upgrade to deploy new email authentication technology. Interview by Miya Knights.
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The final run [IT paradigms]
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This is the last issue of Information Professional before it morphs into the IT section of Engineering & Technology magazine's 24 January 2008 issue. The author looks back at some of the shifting IT paradigms that the magazine has covered since its inception.
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Moving the model [software licensing]
- Author(s): D. Bradbury
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As software licensing models get more complicated they are soaking up more of IT specifiers' time - and patience. Why has it become such a pain to sort out? (3 pages)
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Editorial and Letters to the Editor
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Working the event horizon
- Author(s): C. Edwards
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The best-laid plans of any IT strategy can get derailed by unforeseen factors wrong-footing critical application outcomes. However, the author finds that event-driven systems are built to take change in their stride. IT systems are mostly built around the idea that things happen in predictable sequences. Everything else is an exception to be squashed. But that is an approach that is beginning to change as IT directors realise that real-world events are not troublesome inputs but actually provide a way to drive their systems. Event-driven architecture is relevant to any business that has multiple parties involved. People are not used to building architecture because they typically work with in synchronous environments today.
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Mainframe makeovers
- Author(s): T. Sucharov
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It seems that the mention of SOA (service-oriented architecture) alone is enough to release the funds needed for IT departments to modernise mainframes. But should departments use SOA to drive traditional legacy mainframe upgrades under the guise of making systems SOA compliant? The IT industry has been at a loss when it comes to legacy mainframe systems. 'To modernise, or not to modernise?' has been the unanswered question of recent years. Legacy mainframe managed systems and associated maintenance costs are a considerable drain on IT department budgets. The costs are high because of interactions between the obsolete platforms and non-mainstream languages on which these legacy systems are built. Adoption of SOA has allowed IT departments to sneak in funding for modernisation programs. The underlying question to this trend is whether SOA should be used as a tool for driving forwards traditional legacy mainframe modernisation programmes under the guise of making systems SOA compliant? It appears the SOA name alone can release the funds required for IT departments to modernise their mainframes. What problem is a little white lie if it gets the job done?
