The true value to business of outsourcing has proved elusive. Consequently, throughout the world, the industry has done some soul-searching about a strategy to adopt for the future.

If you don`t make the right storage location choices up-front, it will cost you.

From a service perspective and operational expenditure point of view, there is no doubt that having network-aware applications will benefit any ICT infrastructure.

Inefficiencies from duplication of data and systems and an inability to respond to new demands plague most organisations today.

Asset availability and utilisation are two opposing forces that must work together for an enterprise to succeed.

Master data management is not a new concept. What is new is getting it to work properly.

In today`s market, survival is dictated by the ability to maximise on existing investments while preparing for the future. It means growing the business today, to ensure its profitability tomorrow.

VOIP is not a free service and is not a panacea for high telecommunication costs.

The convergence of five major marketing forces means that suppliers must pay much more attention to their customers.

It is neither hardware infrastructure nor PC software, but business processes that are the ultimate reflection of an organisation`s success.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) offers opportunities for software vendors to collaborate, increase business agility and enable true business-to-business integration with other applications and software.

Almost every achievement and success in the history of humankind has carried a commensurate level of associated risk.