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Real-time Web data analysis is gaining acceptance for business decision-making, but the complexity of creating real-time applications still keeps most projects small.

Users and applications constantly demand more server storage capacity, which often prompts company's to buy more disk arrays. But at least one IT administrator has found that the disk space is already inside the data centre

With failure rates of almost 50 per cent for implementations of CRM applications and CRM analytic projects, it seems likely that the integration road map is the one that many companies have left behind as they navigate the deployment terrain.

A few major retailers and manufacturers have begun to shift their focus to the needs of the little guys, understanding that the EDI capabilities of most small businesses are nonexistent or extremely limited.

Users are shocked by the announcement of the US$25 billion deal that will combine two computer giants into a behemoth with $87 billion in revenue, while creating the world's largest PC maker and the dominant company in the server market.

CIOs gathered for an annual Candle Corp. user conference, in Pebble Beach, Calif., last week bemoaned the persistent shortage of IT talent despite the lingering downturn in the economy.