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April 2000 News

  • E-Business Nightmare
  • Future storage arrives
  • Front Office needs a strong Back

E-Business management nightmare

E-Business tools are failing customers by falling short of required mark for managing applications and services. Ovum Analysts are finding that businesses are needing better and more management tools to ensure the required levels of service - currently it can be a bit of a nightmare.

Future storage goes 3-D 

Storage devices enter the realms of science fiction with holographic devices able to store  around 125GB on a 5.25" removable device. Bell Labs (research arm of Lucent Technologies) are working on this device with data storage specialist Imation. The device does not rely on mechanical movement of heads, it uses laser beams in three dimension. No date been set for the first products. 

Front Office needs a strong Back 

Back-office infrastructure is key to e-business. Industry experts have said that most e-business projects will fail because of a lack of integration between back- and front-end systems. By 2003 IT infrastructure operations will be more important to e-branding than marketing

Shorties

  • PictureTel abandon ATM after only two years.
  • E-Business will quickly expose network design flaws.
  • Intel admit problems with its 820/840 chip sets.
  • IBM's shark (Enterprise Storage server) is suffering from teething problems with it's PCI interface. All teeth and no bite!
  • Windows 2000 will ship with 3Com's Remote installation to make it easier. Does this mean that somebody out there has had some problems.
  • 3Com users are revolting. All because they have bailed out of the high-end switches arena.
  • Oracle has reversed part of its e-business strategy by allowing 3rd party ASPs to resell its applications. Clearly Larry has been reincarnated after this last "over my dead body" declaration.
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