Learning to install, configure and manage a storage-area network is a hodgepodge affair that is littered with hard-won experience and lessons learned, IT managers say.
Professional service organizations, companies that sell staff services instead of goods, normally have little use for traditional ERP solutions because their production cycles focus on managing human activities rather than material or assembly lines.
Intel Corp. last month released an IP telephony product that could put the power of a central-site PBX into a small branch office or a telecommuter's den.