11/01/2001

IT Inspirations

7 High-Tech Leaders You'll Wish You Worked With: We talk with a handful of high-tech leaders who are making big footprints in the world of IT. They'll show you how they've inspired their staff, pulled off high-profile projects with flair and are successfully merging business with technology.


In-Depth

Continental Soars with NAS

In moving from direct-attached to network-attached storage, Continental Airlines has found high availability, a flexible storage infrastructure and backup times that have been reduced from days to hours.


Profiles in IT: One Percent of the World's Data

We're trying to preserve vast amounts of digital data reliably for 100 years—but the storage media themselves haven't been proven to last that long.


Profiles in IT: Guiding a U.K. S&L to Windows

Meeting the challenges of moving a major U.K. company to Windows 2000 and Active Directory is easier than defusing bombs, but perhaps just as challenging.


Profiles in IT: Melding Business with IT

Becoming a top-notch CIO: Start in the trenches of IT, spend some time learning on the business side and then meld


Profiles in IT: Change Agent

This manager's guiding $6.9-billion deal with EDS to transform the U.S. Navy's view of e-business, including what might be the largest smart-card rollout ever.


Profiles in IT: Molding Information at Myers Industries

Transforming IT thinking by changing how a company's strategies align with its information technology people and products.


Profiles in IT: Banking on Online

An early approach to making e-commerce work by focusing on customers and customer needs—while still using the Web in innovative ways.


Profiles in IT: Seven Inspirations

We talk with a handful of leaders who are making big footprints in the world of IT. They'll show you how they've inspired their staff, pulled off high-profile projects with flair and are successfully merging business with technology.


Secure Connections

You need to cheaply connect users around the globe while keeping the rest of the world out. A VPN may provide an astonishingly quick ROI compared to your current solution.


Profiles in IT: The Business of IT

Making the CIO a full partner in the business side—and stressing the business importance of IT.


USDA-Approved Data Integration

The USDA needed to access disparate databases scattered in regional agencies across the country. With a middleware solution and minimal programming, data now flows from an IBM mainframe into Microsoft SQL Server and then to users' browsers.


XML: From Chaos to Cooperation

Technological infrastructures within companies and supply chains today resemble the bar scene in "Star Wars." XML's promise: To turn that chaos into universal cooperation, thus enabling Web services. Here's how the XML revolution is affecting your company.