Stories about: Compaq

Good project management isn't enough; CIOs need a worst-case contingency plan for the business.

In days past, help desks trotted out their anti-virus kits when asked to minister to sickly PCs. But today they must also bring to bear an array of anti-spyware tools. Spyware -- with its adjunct, adware -- is fast becoming the No. 1 problem among Internet-connected computers, more so than viruses or hack attempts.

After years of operating in silos, British bank Abbey re-engineered its business continuity policy on a building-by-building basis to deliver a policy that everyone’s happy with — even the CEO

While the world's biggest IT merger, the HP and Compaq, attracted plenty of media attention there were no headlines about the mundane, behind-the-scenes work of the mammoth task of transferring customer data.

It's the dirtiest little secret in the software industry: Patching no longer works. And there's nothing you can do about it. Except maybe patch less. Or possibly patch more.