Tag: IT

  • IT Budgets Remain Under Close Watch for 2006

    IT Budgets Remain Under Close Watch for 2006

    Kim S. Nash

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    We face another year of living moderately, at least with regard to technology spending. A just-completed survey of 115 senior information technology executives in big companies by CIO Insight, a sister publication to Baseline, shows a 1.3 percent decline in technology spending this year among companies with more than $500 million in sales. The publication’s… Read more

  • IBM’s Autonomics Cut Corners, Cash from IT Budgets

    IBM’s Autonomics Cut Corners, Cash from IT Budgets

    John Hazard

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    The latest product line out of IBM’s Tivoli division is designed to bring self managing IT to the business masses, freeing resources and cash for use elsewhere in the channel, IBM executives said. Three new Tivoli software packages, released this week, are designed to automatically identify and respond to situations defined by the user. IBM… Read more

  • Is IT Outsourcing Losing Luster?

    Is IT Outsourcing Losing Luster?

    John Moore

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    J. Sainsbury’s recent decision to part company with Accenture has inspired mixed interpretations among industry watchers. The UK food retailer late last month announced plans to take back in-house the IT services it outsourced to Accenture in November 2000. Under the $3 billion deal, Accenture succeeded in improving Sainsbury’s IT capability and “delivered improvements in… Read more

  • Unitrends: If You Build It, They Will Come

    Karen D. Schwartz

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    Unitrends appears to put its confidence in the concept behind the popular phrase “If you build it, they will come.” The Columbia, S.C.-based company, which offers a line of products and services related to business continuity and disaster recovery that includes electronic data vaulting, seems to have tapped into a burgeoning market at the right… Read more

  • IT Gets Its Own Tool Set

    John Moore

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    Corporations want their information technology shops to be run like businesses. A newly released report, however, suggests that many organizations are stumbling in that regard. Sapient, a systems integrator, collaborated with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management on a white paper that examines the problem of unlocking technology’s potential. “Most [organizations] are missing out on… Read more

  • Unions Step Up Organizing of IT Workers, Outsourcing Fight

    Unions Step Up Organizing of IT Workers, Outsourcing Fight

    Gene Koprowski

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    Is the IT workforce ripe for union membership? Recent splits in several large labor organizations, growing IT pessimism and the increasing strength of offshore outsourcing are fueling new efforts to attract information workers, insiders say. There may be growing support among the workforce for such union representation. A union-backed survey released in late August revealed… Read more