We couldn't really get anyone at the hotel to tell us anything, so we called my mother. She told us that it looked like Hurricane Emily was headed straight for us.

When she (his mother) saw the first parade in New York, she was so happy.

For most organizations, the lack of a consistent risk management framework leaves a lot of important and timely information trapped in documents and in people's heads. Effective information management not only helps make business operations more efficient, but also mitigates risk. Most organizations are so busy just trying to manage structured information that they haven't yet addressed unstructured content -- much less given enough attention to litigation risk associated with information.

(These systems integrators) still need to partner with IBM because IBM has some very strong software products - they are going to be forced to walk the fine line between partnership and competition.

The long-term promise here is the ability to bring some more management to this unmanaged content.

IBM are trying to take their whole product set and create a holistic solution to managing information,