Stories by Mitch Betts

New wrinkles in storage

Finally, corporate chieftains are beginning to understand that business runs on information. Information properly exploited can yield competitive advantage. Information properly stored can be retrieved when needed for business, legal, regulatory compliance or disaster recovery purposes. And information properly protected will keep the company's name from joining the news media's growing list of privacy and security breaches.

Panel: Vendor management hinges on tiny details

Even an IT department that's good at managing contractors can be tripped up by unexpected problems such as a dispute over the definition of software defect, according to a panelist at Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference in Arizona.