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* How vendors buying vendors can yield better management tools
* The best time to prepare for a disaster is before it happens, not after
* Strategic, companywide approach needed to manage data
* How the recent computing paradigm shift is a leap ahead and a leap back
* Readers weigh in on the issue of IT strategy
* Training is the only way to get the full value out of software or surfboards
* Management options from services arm of IBM
* Economy forces companies to make tactical decisions, rather than strategic
* Profile of dynamic server provisioning