Information Age (London, UK) articles from March 2005

Information Age (London, UK) archives from March 2005

Month in Review.
March 10, 2005... The Atlas Consortium led Electronic Data Systems (EDS) stole ahead in the race to win the contract to provide the MoD with its new [pounds sterling]4 billion IT system. The contract, including an unprecedented "no failure" clause, will replace...

RFID.(Radio Frequency Identification)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... The UK and Germany will drive the growth in the Western European RFID market, accounting for 40% by 2007. Juniper Research found that Western European revenues for RFID are set to hit $1.1 billion by 2007, with the Danish, Swiss and Dutch...

Servers.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... Revenues in the worldwide server market grew 6.2% in 2004, and it is now worth over $49 billion. IBM and Hewlett-Packard (HP) account for 60% of sales between them. During the fourth quarter of 2004, IBM claimed 38% of the market share,...

Driving out cost and complexity.(managed service providers' forcasts and trends)(Brief Article)
March 10, 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. This Infoconomy business briefing explores the...

A wider scope.(managed services)
March 10, 2005... Managed services is a term whose meaning is often determined by the interested party's perspective. In its narrowest sense it is simply regarded as third-party PC support; at the other extreme, it is the outsourced management of the entire...

The cost equation.(information technology inftrastructure management)
March 10, 2005... The price of a standard PC may have come down to below [pounds sterling]350; a rackable server tower may be less than [pounds sterling]600; but unless the total cost of providing IT to the desktop is well understood, then IT managers have...

The new dynamics of managed services.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... A wider scope The managed service remit is evolving to encompass all the key technologies that determine the user experience. By Kenny MacIver The new modus operandi How can organisations take advantage of the new models of service...

Service optimisation.(managed services contracts)
March 10, 2005... Managed services contracts always start off with high expectations, but ensuring the promise is fulfilled takes careful planning, solid execution, detailed tracking of performance and, if necessary, a controlled exit. Businesses entering...

Attack on complexity.(South Lanarkshire council's contracts and services)
March 10, 2005... South Lanarkshire Council has more experience than most organisations when it comes to managed services for the desktop. The Scottish local authority is six months into its second multi-year desktop services contract, having first signed up...

The new modus operandi.(Dell Inc.'s conputers supply services management)
March 10, 2005... As organisations explore how best to source managed services, suppliers are responding with new models of service delivery centred on two areas: reducing cost and increasing flexibility. On the cost side, providers are now in a position to...

A bid for uniformity.(Barclays Bank PLC's contract for desktop computers)
March 10, 2005... When it comes to the adoption of desktop managed services, organisations need to understand how their different implementation options can determine the level of business benefit they are likely to achieve. In a large organisation, it is...

Retail's revolution.(online trade sales index)
March 10, 2005... According to popular mythology, the overwhelming majority of people who set out to read Stephen Hawkings' book A Brief History of Time never get beyond page on which the first equation appears. I had a similar experience last month when I...

Technology Paradise Lost.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 10, 2005... The future, according to baseball philosopher Yogi Berra, ain't what it used to be. That quote, plucked from a new book on IT spending patterns Technology Paradise Lost, will certainly ring true for many in the technology industry. Any...

The New CIO Leader.(Book Review)
March 10, 2005... Career strategy is, more often than not, an area that suffers from lack of attention. Immersed in the pressurised world of running the IT organisation, CIOs can often fail to find the time to step back and think more deeply about their own...

Enterprise Application trends.(analysis and research of information technology industry)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... In 2005, licence sales of enterprise applications will grow at their fastest rate since the market's heyday in the mid-1990s, according to AMR Research. Analysts at the IT strategy advisor estimate that after a series of sluggish years the...

Co-location 2.0.(data centre hosting services' analysis and research)
March 10, 2005... Five years ago, a whole new industry segment - data centre hosting or 'co-location' - emerged out of nowhere. At the height of the dot com boom and in anticipation of rocketing demand for computer room floorspace, investors poured cash into...

Mobile Middleware.(forecasts of industry sales and earnings )(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... Demand for mobile middleware, the critical component that links back-office systems with remote and roaming devices, is expected to surge over the next four years. Research group IDC reports that the market for mobile middleware will grow...

Personal Computers.(sales and revenue of computer industry)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... Laptop sales boosted worldwide demand for PCs in 2004, helping to spur an 12% rise in the overall market, according to Gartner's annual review of the sector. The mobile PC boost offset weaker demand among consumers in the US and Europe. ...

Enterprise Security.(computer industry's revenues and security measures)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... The enterprise security market is both growing rapidly and evolving fast as the demand for compliance drives adoption of new technologies. Researchers at Canalys say the value of the enterprise security market in Europe, the Middle East and...

Financial Applications.(business performance management software usage servey by FT Research Centre and Cartesis)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... Finance departments are not embracing business intelligence as fast as the vendors of such technologies might suggest, with most still relying on spreadsheet packages as their primary source of analysis. A recent survey by the FT Research...

Lotus Notes: IBM avoids the M word.(Migration of International Business Machines Corp.)
March 10, 2005... Migration is a dirty word in the IT industry - it usually involves some type of pain for the customer. That is why, when IBM gathered together thousands of customers and partners at its mainstream collaborative software products conference in...