The McKinsey Quarterly In recent years, companies have worked hard to reduce the cost of the IT infrastructure—the data centers, networks, databases, and software tools that support businesses. These efforts to consolidate, standardize, and streamline assets, technologies, and processes have delivered major savings. Yet even the most effective cost-cutting program eventually hits a wall: the…
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TECH TALK: 2003-04
Rajesh Jain’s tech talk states, “… I will offer my picks for the 10 technologies and trends that either showed promise, made the news and/or made a difference in 2003.”
25 Years of Technology
SPECIAL REPORT InfoWorld’s anniversary: 25 years of technology A look back at technology developments in the last quarter century and predictions for the future 1979 – 1985: The Dawn of the PC Personal computers meet the enterprise 1986 – 1995: The Networked Enterprise LAN, Ethernet, Lotus Notes, Windows 95, and a connected workforce 1996 –…