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 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.
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.
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.
Becoming a top-notch CIO: Start in the trenches of IT, spend some time learning on the business side and then meld
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.
Transforming IT thinking by changing how a company's strategies align with its information technology people and products.
An early approach to making e-commerce work by focusing on customers and customer needs—while still using the Web in innovative ways.
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.
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.
Making the CIO a full partner in the business side—and stressing the business importance of IT.
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.
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.