True grid
Today, tomorrow or a decade away: When will grid and utility computing be ready for enterprise IT?
STRATEGY
Rebirth of the ASP
The application service provider model is springing back to life, driven by new technology, cheaper bandwidth and sharper business models.
TECHNOLOGY
Legacy salvation
Web services integration technologies are providing a gateway into the business logic of mission critical ‘legacy’ applications.
MANAGEMENT
Going public
The public sector has never been so appealing. Salaries are rising, budgets are growing and reputations are there to be won — and lost.
Offshore backlash
Union opposition threatens to damage confidence in offshore outsourcing.
Rules of engagement
Is the Confidentiality Charter encouraging the reporting of high-tech crime?
INFLUENCER
Bruce Perens
A man with impeccable credentials in the world of Linux.
Q&A
London Stock Exchange
CIO David Lester on commercialising the IT department.
EXPERT ADVICE
Jon Leigh
…of NCC Group’s escrow solutions division explains how escrow agreements are the best way to secure software investments.
LEGAL COUNSEL
Unacceptable use
Robin Graham of Morgan Cole urges organisations to set proper rules about Internet abuse.
Knowledge management
Organisations no longer want enterprise-wide knowledge management systems. Rather, they want ‘smart enterprise suites’.
COMPANIES
Month in review
A round-up of the month’s most important technology industry news, including: Novell to buy SuSE; rumours of Sun-Fujitsu tie-up; Siebel returns to ASP model.
Infoconomy Index
Company analysis
An in-depth analysis of the events shaping leading technology companies.
Cognos
Kalido
Novell
SAP
Microsoft
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Open Text
FINANCE
Financial report
Analysis of the latest quarterly results from some of the industry’s key players. This month: systems vendors Sun Microsystems, Unisys and IBM.
M&A
Recent deals in the global IT industry. This month: Siebel buys Upshot and EMC goes on the acquisition trail.
Grid is a longterm fix for the big problems of IT, says Kenny MacIver.
Readers’ letters
This month includes: a lack of SLAs for mobile services, the poor customer service record of off-shore call centres; and the thinking man’s IT.
UPDATES
Insider
Highlights, facts and inside stories from the frontiers of the information economy.
On the crest of a crime wave
The truth will out
Productivity gap
Linux: the unwelcome gatecrasher?
Microsoft patching up its security responsibility
CIOs can still scale new heights
RESOURCES
Crib sheet
Enterprise instant messaging
A primer on the technologies and companies behind enterprise instant messaging.
Industry trends
Numbers, trends and research from the global information economy.
Skills
Business efficiency
Security
IT spending
Wireless communications
Books
Reviews of:
The New Forensics
Packaged Composite Applications
The Jericho Principle
