Information Age (London, UK) articles from November 2001

Information Age (London, UK) archives from November 2001

Recession deepens.(information technology industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... Further evidence of the IT industry's descent into recession was provided during October, as the Infoconomy Index slipped to its lowest level yet. The Index, which tracks the financial growth of the world's 200 most prominent technology...

DWL pitches a promise of real-time CRM.(customer relationship management)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Deploying a customer relationship management (CRM) system is a notoriously challenging task - and one that is often exacerbated by the fact that most CRM architectures are ill-suited to real-time analysis and response to customer data. ...

The big picture.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Technology research and advisory company Gartner recently released the top 5 technology issues for attendees at its Gartner Symposium user conference. On an individual basis, mobile and wireless technologies caused the most concern,...

Clueless about wireless.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... IT professionals are ill-informed when it comes to wireless networking. In a survey of UK organisations by the Opus Group, only a third say they have all the information they need, while the remainder lacked knowledge variously on the...

Fall in global server revenues.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... As the IT spending downturn spreads, server revenues are in decline across the world. In every region, revenues for the second quarter of 2001 were down from the corresponding quarter in 2000, says analyst IDC. Overall, global server market...

Tripwire sets a trap for intruders.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... In the early 1990s, computer security specialists were largely focused on the problem of keeping intruders out of a network. But Professor Eugene Stafford at Indiana's Purdue University took a different tack: he decided to concentrate on the...

ClickArray challenges with all-in-one web appliance.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... There is nothing new about the concept of server appliances. But whereas mainstream vendors tend to concentrate on devices for managing one or two basic functions, such as running a database or a web server, ClickArray wants to provide an...

Intraspect fosters professional services collaboration.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... The efficiencies promised by the collaborative enterprise are attractive to many kinds of organisation. But for professional services companies, business-to-business software from suppliers such as Ariba, Commerce One and i2 Technologies is...

Cost-cutting telecoms providers turn to IP telephony.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... The IP telephony equipment market is set double in value over the next five years as cash-strapped telecoms carriers look to offset their expensive investments in third generation mobile licences with lower-cost IP phone deployments. As...

Voice growing stronger.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... Voice recognition technologies are steadily taking off, despite criticisms that they are expensive and difficult to implement. According to figures from Datamonitor, global investment in voice technologies has grown 33% to reach $650 million in...

Many yet to commit to ASPs.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Awareness of the application service provider (ASP) model is increasing all the time, but uptake among European organisations is still fairly low. Three quarters of the European small business managers recently questioned by market researcher...

Work Naked.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Working from home or another remote location was a vision that took hold in the 1980s. But teleworking only really became a practical proposition for a large proportion of workers with the arrival of the Internet in the mid-1990s. Even...

The storage file.(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... The technologies that organisations require to create fully-integrated, heterogeneous storage architectures span scores of different product areas and hundreds of different suppliers. No single vendor could claim to provide anything like the...

Sole focus on storage pays off for HDS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... Back in 1999, Hitachi Data Systems was a weakened mainframe vendor with a lacklustre disk storage business. But over the past two years, a hasty retreat from mainframes and a re-focusing of the company around multiple-platform disk systems has...

Fujitsu aims for broader storage presence.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... Fujitsu is the waking giant of storage. The company has devices that span the whole range of enterprise storage -- most of which are today designed for the mainframes and servers it sells into its home market of Japan. It also has a sizeable...

Command and control.(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... Since the mid-1990s and the start of the Internet boom, the amount of money spent on storage systems has ballooned. However, despite this increase in spending, many organisations are struggling to keep up with burgeoning storage requirements -...

Technology transfer.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... The storage service provider (SSP) model has been met with mixed reaction since it emerged in the late 1990s. On the one hand, the sheer growth in the complexity of enterprise-level storage makes outsourcing all or part of an organisation's...

Dell's stealth attack on mid-range storage market.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... From almost nowhere, Dell has grabbed the number four position in the mid-range storage systems market. Over the past year, it has doubled its market share to give it around 10% of the mid-range segment, putting it on the trail of EMC's...