Disaster recovery and business continuity are seen as a grudge spend, but good governance and holistic risk management are changing this trend.

A Gartner management update released in 2005 details six myths about BCM and DR. These are as relevant today as they were then, which reflects the relative lack of maturity of this segment.

1965: The Northeast blackout occurs in New York City, the first major regional disaster affecting corporate data centres.

Business intelligence is maturing quickly. Signs include consolidation, wider appeal to SMEs and more user influence.

Since the last ITWeb business intelligence round table, there has been some consolidation in the vendor market.

Human resources has been on the road from administrative processor to strategic advisor for many years, but a lack of process automation has delayed things somewhat.

Gartner reveals the human capital management vendors which are solving old HR problems in new and interesting ways.

Early tools, such as macro assemblers and interpreters, are created in the 1950s.

As the enterprise market reaches saturation, ERP vendors and integrators of all sizes rush to gain a share of the flourishing SME verticals.

To rent or to own? This is the question facing CIOs and financial departments in the race to keep pace with constantly changing technology.

In a bid to standardise the equipment used by its brokers, Absa Brokers struck a deal with iVolve.

Leasing offers as many advantages as pitfalls. Gartner lays down some basic guidelines to aid the unwary.

In the Web hosting game, service and uptime are the only things that count.