However, cost and implementation complexities have historically held back the move to storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS). Susan Clarke, senior analyst at Butler Group, said one reason storage strategies have been...
However, specialist companies like Siebel seem to have a better chance of making it work than big systems integrators. So, rather than getting a company like EDS to build a bespoke database system for every UK council, why not get a company like...
IBM Global Services had been leading a consortium of systems integrators, including KPMG and EDS, to implement DSMS, using the Indus PassPort off-the-shelf software package. DSMS was approved in June 2000 with an initial budget of £133.6m and the...
EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of network-attached storage (NAS) devices and storage area networks (SAN) to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of storing data.
Key software providers in the mobile space such as Microsoft and Symbian have long touted relationships they have built up with systems integrators (SIs) - the very companies likely to prove vital in bringing all sorts of applications, some of...
PAC said that in the long run the market will be made up of a few large companies on the one hand and very specialized niche players on the other - and that smaller companies will have to cooperate with systems integrators in the future to remain...