IT Week is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week. To mark this milestone
we’ve put together these features, which look back over some of the biggest IT
developments of the past decade, and ahead to what the next 10 years might bring
IT Week: a
decade on Editor Madeline Bennett introduces the special birthday content, and points
out that while the past decade has seen huge technological change, in many areas
we haven’t moved on at all
That was
then, this is now
Strategy editor David Neal takes a look back at some of the people and events
that earned a place in our inaugural issue, and outlines what happened next
Rise of the handhelds
Technical editor Daniel Robinson outlines the rapid advances in mobile
technology over the past decade
IT
threats past and present
Comparing the 1998 and 2008 Information Security Breaches Surveys casts light on
the changing threat landscape
Prescient
IT punditry News editor Gareth Morgan considers what was on IT manager minds back in
1998, which was mergers, upgrades and wireless apparently
So what
will the next 10 years bring? We talked to industry experts from BT, the Chartered Management Institute,
the Technology Strategy Board and analysts Gartner and AMR Research how they saw
technology and the role of the IT director changing in the future. The feedback
was then fed through our patented Hype-o-meter to assess its reliability
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