Information Professional
Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2007
Volume 4, Issue 5
October 2007
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- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070502
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- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 3 –3
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070509
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- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 4 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070510
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- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 9 –9
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070511
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- Author(s): P. Hunter
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 11 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070512
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Juniper Networks has been flourishing in Cisco's shadow, and has built a reputation for redoubtable technology; but can it maintain the demanding pace set by its bigger rival? - Author(s): D. Bradbury
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 12 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070501
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According to a 2006 study by Lancaster University, computer science and IT degree applications had halved in five years; E-Skills UK, the sector skills council responsible for promoting education and skills in the high-tech industry, found that total applications for all higher education courses rose 12 per cent between 2002 and 2005, but applications for computer sciences and IT-related related courses fell by a third. - Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070513
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ICT contract news from the aerospace, charities, finance, retail, and ports sectors. - Author(s): V. Ramakrishnan
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070514
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An absence of licence costs, vendor independence and access to source code. That is what fuels growth in open source software for business intelligence and reporting projects, especially in financial services and the public sector. Actuate's Vijay Ramakrishnan outlines the company's research into open source deployments. - Author(s): P. Hunter
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 18 –18
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070503
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RAID storage technology has been around for decades, yet its innovative drive is showing no signs of reaching its limit. So what does the future hold for RAID developments? The emergence of solid-state disk drives, coupled with the long-predicted decline in tape storage, has served to change the accent on RAID storage technology away from performance and towards cost, capacity and redundancy. (3 pages) - Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 22 –24
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070515
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The partnership between two UK local authorities - Northumberland and Durham County Councils - is proving that a shared approach to ICT provisioning can bring benefits to budgets and efficiency. Northumberland's Peter Gallon is one of the principal architects of the project. Interview by Miya Knights. - Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 25 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070516
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- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 26 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070504
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The service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to building IT systems has, for a number of people, moved out of the trial phase and onto real-life deployments. Companies are basing their entire IT infrastructure around textbook SOA principles. However, despite all the interest, some thorny issues with SOA remain. Many vendors have produced tools and support products for SOA-based systems, but few of these tools address the core changes that SOA entails: it's harder than it seems to take applications and APIs and convert that into reusable services. The vendors have instead focused on supporting applications that have already been converted to use SOA principles. You can see how that works for people and the kinds of tools that need to be considered. - Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070517
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Here's a thrilling and original board game that SOA technologists can play during those long, dark autumnal evenings. At first glance, it's snakes-and-ladders meets IT project management. But much more than just that - it's snakes-and-ladders where you gamble - and it's your future as CIO at stake! The game is suitable for players aged 21 and older. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070505
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Where there is a new movement in IT, support tools are sure to follow. The world of the SOA is no exception, with a host of products springing up that claim to deal with the issues that a move to the architecture bring up. According to a study carried out by analyst firm Aberdeen Group, organisations that made the investment in SOA infrastructure - such as enterprise service buses (ESBs), repositories and registries - are significantly out-performing companies that just develop and use web services without these support tools. - Author(s): D. Bradbury
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 32 –32
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070506
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Parents have told you not to play with your food, but what's appropriate at the dinner table isn't necessarily applicable elsewhere. Modern culture thrives on mixing things together to create new flavours. It happened with music, and then with video, and now we're seeing it with online services. 'Mash-ups' are the latest buzzword in software development, and they are predicated on on mixing together Internet experiences that would previously have been consumed separately. Mash-ups are based on one of the fundamental tenets of Web 2.0 technology: that data contributed by a Web site's users should be easy for those users to consume in different forms. This philosophy drove sites such as Google, Flickr and Amazon to provide open application programming interfaces (APIs). "Mash-ups are about letting the user do the integration and filter their data all on their own. "Asynchronous Java and XML (AJAX) is one popular technology, enabling Web 2.0 users to manipulate online information without having to make multiple time-consuming queries to the server, as traditional HTML-based forms do. (3 pages) - Author(s): N. Cater
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 36 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070507
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To address accidental data loss, enterprises must take an inclusive and disciplined approach to enforcing standard security practices. When it comes to protecting data, everyone has a responsibility - from chairman to doorman. - Author(s): J. Lidner
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 38 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070518
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A lavishly illustrated parade of the pioneers of computer hardware reveals the under-stated visual appeal of the big systems of yore. - Author(s): M. Etchells
- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, page: 40 –40
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070508
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Our relationship with email has fast become one of the tail wagging the dog - this once-lauded tool is now controlling our working habits, and interfering with productivity. However, the author explains that there are ways to show it who's master. (3 pages) - Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 44 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070519
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- Source: Information Professional, Volume 4, Issue 5, p. 46 –48
- DOI: 10.1049/inp:20070520
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Editorial and Letters to the Editor
News
Viewpoint
Analysis: The stalker
Where have all the students gone? [IT degree]
Sector specific
Watchpoint: Open source rollout is global trend
What's in store [RAID storage]
My way: Interview with Peter Gallon
Special report introduction: Three faces of SOA [service-oriented architecture]
Payback for SOA adopters
The SOA game - fun for all the enterprise!
State of the tools [SOA tools]
Menu mash-up
Group discipline [data protection]
Review: In praise of older hardware
Bringing email to heel
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Diary: Partner events
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