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As threats become increasingly more sophisticated, data security touches every aspect of systems, networks, and end devices. CMP leading editors and analysts peeled back the layers to identify enterprises' biggest challenges and what their options are to remedy them. This conference also looked at external threats that come from hackers, viruses, and phishers, as well as the growing internal risks from negligence or malice.
It is an accepted fact that over three-quarters of an IT department’s budget and time is spent merely managing its standing infrastructure, as opposed to developing the new applications and services that will help generate additional revenues and drive the business forward
Since their inception in the late 1990’s blade servers have threatened to revolutionise the management of server rooms and data centres. This revolution is now here with the arrival of the HP BladeSystem c-Class.
The ongoing convergence of data and voice into next-generation networks provides a significant financial benefit through the reduction of capital expenditures. Service providers and enterprises are now offering completely new types of services, making them more competitive and opening up new revenue streams. The key issue is the effective management of these complex service-oriented architectures.
Stephen Stokols, VP of strategy and business development for BT Retail, introduces BT Contact, an upcoming communications hub that will help consumers communicate using whatever services they choose. The portal reflects a further change in the mindset of telecom companies as they compete with Internet innovators such as Skype and Google
IT organizations are under tremendous pressure today, with everything from the increasing complexity of managing these environments, the ever stronger focus on cost, through to the sheer rate and pace of change. Nancy Pearson, VP Marketing for IBM Tivoli Software, provides some insight into the new challenges facing the world of service management and considers how the role of CIO is changing.
