Last month, the Meta Group published research showing a high proportion of the world's largest companies have CRM initiatives that are at "serious risk of failure". Many of the 50 sample companies - which included giants such as Eastman Kodak and...
Phil Dawson at Meta Group agreed that robust storage will be key to ensuring the success any site which could experience huge traffic flows. Systems that rely on live information have to be fool-proof.
Tenant added one way for users to protect against bugs affecting web servers in the future is by using the Windows 2000 IIS 5.0 Hotfix Checking tool (HFCheck), which makes sure Microsoft systems are up-to-date on all security patches.
The point is that server sales may ebb and flow from one quarter to another but the meta-story for Intel is about advancing technology building blocks and finding markets for them. He is further proof the company promotes from within.
But banks have been checking physical identities for hundreds of years - only allowing people to have accounts if they have the correct paperwork, such as passports, proof of address and other documents.
This immovable deadline and the immense task of checking every single computer system throughout the world to ensure they could cope with the 'millennium bug' created an enormous opportunity for the offshore service providers - particularly in India.