Greg Enright

Fortunately for enterprise IT managers and end users, the announcement last month from Microsoft that changes have been made to the release schedule for its forthcoming Vista operating system will not have much of an effect on them. At least not yet.

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The severe backlash to a recent U.S. government decision allowing a United Arab Emirates-owned ports company to operate in six U.S.-based ports illustrates just how skittish the western world is over the situation surrounding sea terminal security.

There should be some empathy for those IT vendors tasked with developing products that aim to protect and manage the infrastructures upon which businesses are built and livelihoods depend.

According to Albert Silverman, senior vice-president, IT Advisory Services for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Toronto, one of the biggest trends in the outsourcing game that has led to an increasingly selective group of customers is the rise of the well-prepared IT services buyer.

The concept of outsourcing IT functions to third-party service providers has been moving full-steam ahead in recent years, but if new trends are any indication, it could be making a bit of a U-turn

We begin a three-part series of profiles of IT professionals who are deciding to make sure work does not take over their lives and that some part of their day, month or year is reserved for fun stuff that has nothing to do with the daily grind back at the office.

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