IT Management
AMR Research, 7/30/02: The New CIO
The equity markets rallied a bit this week, and underlying economic measures remain encouraging. However, corporate capital investment remains hesitant as uncertainty about the completeness of a recovery remains. This hesitancy continues to put significant pressure on the CIO to make more of what the company already has in IT assets and shift decision power to Line of Business (LOB) and functional leadership.
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CIO, 7/26/02: The CEO/CIO Relationship: More Aligned Than Ever
By Lorraine Cosgrove Ware
A CXO Media survey of business and IT executives found that for the most part, little disconnect exists between the CEO and CIO on alignment issues. The majority (78 percent) of business executives surveyed are satisfied with their CIO’s performance, and more than half (57 percent) believe that IT is delivering value for the money spent. Only a quarter (24 percent) of CEOs felt that business and IT are not closely aligned in their organization, similar to the CIOs’ responses -- 24 percent of CIOs surveyed felt that there is little to no alignment.
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Giga, 7/30/02: Include Desktop Services in Disaster Recovery Planning
Although there are a large number of disaster recovery issues that are more critical than having spare PCs available, it is important for clients to consider how users will be provisioned with alternate work environments, including desktop services. Data recovery is one of the most challenging aspects of disaster recovery in a distributed desktop environment, so Giga clients should focus on this issue in a disaster recovery plan. Organizations are increasingly relying on remote access capability to facilitate business continuity in emergencies.
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Giga, 7/3/02: Desktop Disaster Recovery Options: In-House vs. Outsource
There are two options for provisioning seat (or desktop) disaster recovery services: using an outsourcer or using in-house resources. Desktop recovery differs significantly from data center recovery, since companies are more likely to rely on internal resources than on a service provider. In many cases, the logistics around using a contract hot-site service for desktop recovery make it an impractical option.
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IT Economy
Internet News, 7/31/02: Is the Tech Recession Over?
By Jim Wagner
Corporate America is spending more on IT equipment and services for the first time since late 2000, indicating an end to the recession that has cast a shadow over the entire tech landscape, according to a new report.
The report, released by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) Wednesday, doesn't give the whole picture in IT spending, but is encouraging news for an industry that's seen lagging software and equipment sales the past year-and-a-half. According to the report by the DOC's Bureau of Economic Analysis, equipment and software sales should top out with a modest 2.9 percent gain in the second quarter of 2002.
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San Jose Mercury News, 8/1/02: High-tech recovery under way
By David A. Sylvester
Remember the national recession that supposed to be so mild last year?
It was actually longer than we thought.
And the grueling tech recession that is still haunting Silicon Valley's industries?
The recovery has already started.
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Microsoft
CIO, 7/29/02: The MS Future
What I learned at the Microsoft .Net briefing day
IT'S NOT NEWS. Microsoft has proven its ability to make serious mistakes (think Internet Explorer 1.0), learn from them, and then return with a vengeance. (OK, except maybe with WebTV.)
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eWeek, 8/1/02: Let the Longhorn Sideshow Begin
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch
Microsoft is honing the user interfaces of a number of its forthcoming products in a way that the company hopes will help users find and access information.
At the heart of the redesign is the so-called task shelf component, code-named Sideshow, that will likely debut first in MSN 8, and later, in the Longhorn Windows.
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