What
Is Configuration Management?
[2003-04-10] Configuration, "to form from or after," derives from the Latin com-,
meaning "with" or "together," and figurare, "to form." It also means "a relative
arrangement of parts or elements." Configuration management therefore refers to
managing a relative arrangement of parts or elements. It's as simple as that.
On the
front lines of IT
[2003-04-10] If your office is like mine, the overall difficulty of doing business
during the rough economy of the past two years is now compounded by something
new: the war in Iraq . Regardless of how you feel morally or politically about
the war, it is clear that IT must continue its usual mission, although the context
has changed in subtle ways. Running IT during a war is not necessarily business
as usual.
Intel
updates mobile technology work
[2003-04-10] TOKYO -- Intel announced few surprises at its Intel Developer Forum
Japan event on Thursday, instead choosing to give the Japanese audience a look
at several technologies first disclosed at a U.S. event in February.
SLM
a Key Measure of IT Management
[2003-04-10] Today more than ever, we are faced with the reality that we are in
a customer focused economy. We must not only retain our current customer base,
but it is also imperative to attract new customers to the business as well. This
competitive element along with attempts to reduce costs, increase efficiencies
and increase revenues all add to the dynamic of ‘How IT and SLM play a key
role in the organization’.
Finding
the Future
[2003-04-10] THE PROBLEM OF FINDING relevant information—a problem that
we all know too well from the Internet—is now reoccurring on corporate intranets.
Security concerns prevent public search engines from indexing sources behind corporate
firewalls, so companies have had to implement their own search solutions. That
has created a new market, not just for public search services, but also for intranet
search products. But while search engines have existed for years, they haven't
improved much. A few new features, more efficient spiders and improved ranking
algorithms exist perhaps, but on a conceptual level today's search technology
offers nearly the same functionality as did the work of the first pioneers.
Utility
Computing: The Next New IT Model
[2003-04-10] IBM says it's investing $10 billion in it, some $800 million of that
in this slow-tech year alone. And that's largely for "education" (okay, hype)
to convince managers in every corner of the IT universe (one would assume) that
this is the Real McCoy. And they're just one of the proponents.
