Month: March 2006

THE OBSTACLE Before Greg Meffert went to work for the city of New Orleans, the software entrepreneur had never paid much attention to city politics.

This is really shaping up to be a fascinating year for information technology. Every week there seems to be a new surprise coming from a

Before you deploy a complex information system, the people who use the system must buy into the project—in advance. That’s not easy, especially if those

With the price of oil forecast to stay above $50 per barrel over the next seven years, the time has come to start thinking long

I recently looked at 105 large U.S. companies that installed new chief information officers over the past four years. Nothing scientific, but I wanted to

Information-technology managers usually focus on software licenses and maintenance. What about electricity for power, emergency backup and cooling? Consumption per unit of computing power is

With the number of mobile workers expected to grow in coming years, information-technology managers have two options for providing wireless data and voice communications. The

Providing wireless access in an office building is one thing. But how do you deliver fast and reliable Wi-Fi links over dozens of square miles