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Business continuity

22 March 2005

Industry statistics show that when companies are hit by disasters that knock out their IT capabilities, as often as not they never reopen, and those that do are almost invariably dead in the water within two years. If this is not enough to convince executives of the need for business continuity planning, then the increasing levels of regulations demanding business assurance surely should.

Technology for Compliance

22 March 2005

Regulatory compliance has become the critical boardroom issue of the decade. Organisations that fail to comply with the major pieces of legalisation or industry regulations face stiff fines and - depending on the sector - sanctions such as their exclusion from capital markets, the prosecution of their senior executives or even the withdrawal of their right to engage in business. The task for the IT organisation is to support that compliance challenge.

Driving out cost and complexity

22 February 2005

Organisations of all sizes are partnering closely with their IT systems and services providers to ensure users are provided with the computing environment they need to excel at their jobs.

Technology for compliance

02 February 2005

The raft of compliance requirements now facing UK business is a minefield for the IT expert. New financial compliance regulations, increasing employee rights and the management and protection of information are now core components of every business strategy and with deadlines looming, there has never been a better time to tackle these issues head on.

Enterprise networking

26 January 2005

Sometimes revolutions happen so steadily that, even though they are deep and fundamental, those caught up in them fail to fully pick up on what is happening. Over the past five years, there have been huge investments in corporate and public bandwidth, a host of new wireless technologies have emerged, packetised voice and data networks have converged, and wide area web services have arrived.

Advancing architectures

17 November 2004

In recent times the large hardware vendors have embraced the concept of utility computing as the next logical progression for computing architectures. Yet there are widely divergent perceptions of what utility means, and the road ahead to the supposed IT nirvana of utility computing appears full of dangerous potholes.

Towards the service-oriented enterprise

17 November 2004

If there is one theme that unites most IT strategists and architects today, it is that modern systems must be highly flexible. It would be both premature and naive to say that the problem is about to solved. But, as a succession of leading thinkers and software experts testified at the Information Age XML &Web Services Conference 2004, the architectural underpinnings for a long-term resolution to the problems are at last being put in place.

Advanced IT architectures

17 November 2004

It is a relatively rare occurrence to find the large hardware vendors in agreement on any given subject. But in recent times they have all embraced the concept of utility computing as the next logical progression for computing architectures. Sadly, there the agreement stops.

Business Intelligence

19 October 2004

From the outset, the sector that currently calls itself 'business intelligence' has never been afraid to think big. But the sector has now entered what is arguably its most ambitious phase yet. According to some observers, corporate performance management will drive BI into almost every business process.

Enterprise Mobility

19 October 2004

Despite the years of hype, the mobile story is just getting underway. Only during the past 18 months have all the pieces come together to enable organisations to start adding what is in practice an extra physical dimension to their operations.

Thirty success stories ofITin action

20 September 2004

Thirty organisations were runners-up and winners in the Effective IT Awards 2004. This Infoconomy reports explains why they were regarded so highly, how they have gained value from IT, and what business problems they solved.

Integration and development

04 August 2004

For decades, the integration and development of enterprise software has presented huge challenges to almost all organisations using IT.

Enterprise Security

06 July 2004

Despite the constant stream of scare stories, the need for tighter security is still not an easy sell to senior management. But IT professionals know many of these threats are very real.

Understanding, implementing and managing storage

21 June 2004

This Enterprise Storage report examines how to reduce TCO through the identification of the top 10 storage 'pain-points; it tracks major buying decisions and the popularity (or not) of suppliers products; it examines efforts to rationalise existing architectures and to see whats coming next in storage.

Towards a service-oriented architecture

26 April 2004

Ever since computers were first used to solve business problems, there has been a great gulf between users and programmers. But that may be about to change.

In pursuit of effectiveness

23 April 2004

The Effective IT Summit brought together IT decision-makers, consultant, analysts and industry luminaries to identify and debate just which IT strategies have the greatest business impact.

The key to compliance

02 April 2004

A new and pressing imperative for organisations is for business processes, tools and IT infrastructures to support 'compliance'. Such imperatives are not typically generated by internal management but are proscribed by powerful external legislative and regulatory bodies, many of which enforce strict deadlines and can impose sometimes-ruinous penalties on those that fail to conform.

Business without downtime

25 March 2004

Business continuity planning is all about being prepared for unplanned, and sometimes extraordinary events. Today, business continuity is not only at or near the top of the corporate IT agenda in almost every analyst survey (Gartner, Meta Group and IDC, for example), but it is expected to remain there for years to come. This Infoconomy industry report is an invaluable guide for IT decision-makers wanting to understand how they can prepare their companies for the worst.

In search of effective IT

01 February 2004

How do you improve the quality and bottom-line contribution of IT services without increasing spending? This is the conundrum that many IT directors face. Although the strategies they have adopted to solve it may differ widely, they can all be broadly categorised under one heading - effective IT. This report examines some of these strategies and technologies.

A shift in the risk equation

13 January 2004

Security has become a top priority for information systems managers. And with good reason research has found that, on average, companies lose 2.1% of their market value within two days of a security breach.

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