When IT all goes wrong
Ten IT crisis moments… and how they could have been prevented.
CIO survival guides
The best IT management books for those who would rather avoid disaster than deal with it.
COMMUNICATIONS
Convergence or collision?
Fixed-mobile convergence is almost a reality. But service providers have yet to find a business model.
MANAGEMENT
Output ambitions
Smart companies are using new printing and scanning technologies to cut costs and ensure compliance.
TECHNOLOGY
Rumours of the death of VMS…
How is the venerable operating system holding on at the heart of many mission-critical systems?
Analysis
In the new-look analysis section this month:
- Rekindling the IT manager’s love affair with mainframes
- Securing messages with quantum cryptography
- Industrialising application development
- Understanding web analytics
INFLUENCER
Gene Hall
The Gartner CEO on enhancing the analyst company’s own ‘ability to execute’ in the wake of its takeover of rival firm, the Meta Group.
PEER TO PEER
Secure investments
IT security threats are well understood at a corporate level but the reasons for investing are not. Information Age readers get to the heart of the matter in the latest in our series of roundtable discussions.
The battle for the corporate data pipe
As bandwidth is relegated to commodity status, Internet service providers are rushing to improve their networks and bolster their services portfolios.
COMPANIES
Month in review
The big news in April: Verizon finally acquires MCI, BT selects its 21CN suppliers and IBM slips.
Infoconomy Index
Company analysis
The vendors making noise.
SAP
Veritas
Hyperion
Wyse Technology
FINANCE
Financial report
Numbers up for offshore outsourcing, IT services and communications vendors.
Mergers & Acquisitions
CA and Micromuse expand their network management, while the thin client sector sputters back to life.
Systems failures have led IT to be viewed in terms of risk rather than as a panacea, says Kenny MacIver.
UPDATES
Insider
"Skype is such a threat to telecom providers that it needs to be blocked."
Software pirates
Extreme IT: Migration
The über user group
Soft costs
Data disasters
RESOURCES
Crib sheet
A primer on information quality tools.
Industry trends
Predictions from the experts
High-end servers
Voice over broadband
BPO
Enterprise IT infrastructure
Financial services
Books
The Mobile Revolution
Last word
Andrew Lawrence states IT’s case as the foundation for operational effectiveness and competitiveness.
