Project Management

Portfolio management provides important and useful concepts for the management of IT assets. But unlike financial portfolios, it has been virtually impossible to remove any IT assets from the enterprise. A well-designed enterprise architecture can help.

Hoping to ease the migration process involved with moving corporate users to new desktops, Symantec Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a new tool that automates many of the more mundane tasks associated with PC migration.

Let's settle this up front. Microsoft Corp. has let its developers down. During the past few years, the company has left a trail of broken promises: a .Net-centered operating system; a broad stack of managed, .Net-based server applications; effortless targeting of everything from servers to cell phones; an egalitarian approach to programming languages; and a new, revolutionarily productive, framework-aware IDE.

When it comes to testing your disaster recovery plans, the best approach is to 'keep it real'. And never assume that everything will go as planned.

Time: it's the bane of project managers. Despite all the advances in project management process and professionalism, too many IT projects still come in late.

Identity management software company Netegrity Inc. plans to announce a new version of its user provisioning product on Tuesday.

In the fiercely competitive freight transportation business, CN Rail has moved to the top of its class by emulating the highly responsive and reliable capabilities of the trucking industry. A high-performing IT department has enabled them to do it.

Many grid computing users are finding that the key challenge they're facing isn't implementing the technology. It's figuring out how to pay for it.