It’s official  —  information security is the most important attribute for IT professionals of the future to possess according to the BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT.

Perhaps not surprisingly, given the almost daily announcement of data losses and high profile hacking attacks, the BCS members voted information security as the top skill for tomorrow’s IT professional.

The key challenge for every IT manager is to provide reliable, available, innovative, and flexible IT products and services. Amid the mounting pressure to provide ever-faster responses to the growing demands of users and customers, we introduced best practices to our IT function with PRINCE2 and ITIL Service Management over the years. Do we really need more? This year we are told, with renewed vigour, that we need to be ‘Agile’.

SharePoint 2010 is “in marketing speak” Microsoft’s Premier Business Collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web. But what does that really mean, and how can you make life better for yourself and for your organisation by implementing a SharePoint infrastructure?