Information Age (London, UK) articles from October 2001

Information Age (London, UK) archives from October 2001

Exodus: Do customers need an emergency exit?(Exodus Communications)
October 10, 2001... For many European chief information officers (CIOs) and their staff, the run-up to Christmas could be particularly fraught this year. Many will be hard at work taking their companies' systems infrastructure out of the data centres of troubled...

HP forges alliances to boost storage clout.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... Company: Hewlett-Packard Products: XP/SureStore series (hardware), FSAM, OpenView, XP CommandView (software), and DLT and LTO Ultrium (tape drives). Top executive: Nora Denzil, VP and general manager, HP Network Storage Solutions...

Quantum recasts its storage profile.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... Company: Quantum Products: Quantum DLT/Super DLT, Quantum ATL, and Snap NAS appliances CEO: Michael Brown HQ: Milpitas, California Company status: Publicly listed on Nasdaq Key financials: For the year ending 31 March...

InStranet promises to bring order to extranet content.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... Extranet content management software company InStranet is in experienced hands. Its founders were among the group of executives behind the rise of Business Objects, arguably France's most successful high-tech start-up and the company that...

Glossary.(Glossary)
October 10, 2001... Back-up - A copy of an organisation's mission-critical data, usually stored in an off-site location for purposes of recovery in case the original copy of data is lost or becomes inaccessible. A back-up window is the period of time available for...

Hipbone connects customers to escorts.(co-browsing software aids customer relationship management)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... "It has a certain 'wow' factor with customers," says Hipbone CEO Michael Sayer of co-browsing software, one of the latest innovations in the field of customer relationship management (CRM). The concept is simple, but the paybacks can be...

That sinking feeling.(Infoconomy Index)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... The IT industry is slipping deeper into recession. The Infoconomy Index, a measure of growth - and, more recently, contraction - across the sector's 200 most prominent vendors, showed a continuing slowdown during September. At -3.4% for the...

Can Logica continue to buck the industry downturn?(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... At one time, UK-based IT software and services giant Logica only seemed interested in the most cutting-edge technology projects: guidance systems for cruise missiles, software for Mars-bound space buggies - that kind of thing. But, while morale...

Oracle fears worse to come.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... Technology bellwether Oracle reported its first quarter results just days after the attack on the US, and although executives warned of problems to come, there were plenty of signs that the company is already struggling to regain its legendary...

Cape Clear sees web services as integration solution.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... "The best way to improve ROI [return on investment] in an IT project is to reduce the 'I'," says Annrai O'Toole, co-founder and executive chairman of Dublin-based software start-up Cape Clear. "The trouble is, much of that project-spend is not...

Compaq's storage roadmap: clear but provisional.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... When Compaq revealed its storage product roadmap in September 2001, there was one key omission. Bound by regulatory requirements, the company could not factor in the potential impact on these plans of its proposed acquisition by systems giant...

StorageTek tackles the open SAN market.(storage area network)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... StorageTek may be the undisputed leader in the automated tape systems market, but, after a string of disastrous results in 1999 and 2000, it is now betting on its little-known storage area network (SAN) and virtualised disk products to restore...

Companies can save cash using web-based CRM.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... Organisations seeking to answer customer queries more rapidly while also economising on technology spend are more likely to realise their goal through web-based self-service technologies than through call centres. Independent analyst Doculabs...

Intranets more costly than first anticipated.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 10, 2001... Organisations with intranets are finding that regular redevelopment work - and the hidden costs involved with it - are essential if their corporate intranets are to keep pace with their changing corporate objectives. According to a recent...

Online shoppers put off by slow-loading rich content.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 10, 2001... Web sites must be stripped back to basics if they are to win online loyalty. A survey of US consumers by Jupiter Media Metrix has found that customers value fast-loading pages over rich media and content. Forty per cent of respondents say they...

IT spending slowdown set to see out 2001.(information technology spending)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... The mood is sombre among chief information officers, many of whom are pessimistic about the economic climate. In a survey of the members of technology forum CIO Connect, conducted by research company Bullhound, only 18% of UK CIOs say they...

Colocation will weather a storm.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... Colocation providers will face major challenges over the next two years, including industry consolidation, customer resistance, the need to offer a wider range of services, as well as the effect of wider economic trends. As a result, market...

IT expenditure out of control.(purchases of information technology; report by)(Dynamic Markets)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 10, 2001... IT purchases are a major 'maverick buying' problem in UK organisations according to independent researcher Dynamic Markets. A recent study of procurement in UK companies by the organisation reveals that maverick IT spend is a problem for 22% of...

All spun out?(business spin-offs)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2001... The official launch of data warehousing tools vendor Kalido on 12 February 2001 marked a rare event. This is because Kalido was conceived in the IT department of oil giant Shell and was originally intended only to solve in-house business...