At Tivoli Systems Inc.'s annual series of user conferences, which kicks off in San Francisco May 1 through May 4, spokesmen and spokeswomen from the company and its partners (including Cisco Systems Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., and Symantec Corp.) are expected to discuss how companies can use e-business infrastructure management to survive the economic shakeout.
Chief Information Officers are coming to the front line to defend their operations and point technology resources to profitability against a slowing economy, according to Gartner, Inc. A global survey of 1,500 CIOs, which was released recently from Gartner's Executive Programs, states that CIOs are building IT programs for maximum cost-effectiveness and profitability.