Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion

Posted by timothy on Monday December 28, 2009 @01:18AM from the but-what's-the-cost-of-preventing-it? dept.

blognoggle writes "Roger Sessions, a noted author and expert on complexity, developed a model for calculating the total global cost of IT failure. Roger describes his approach in a white paper titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He concludes that IT failure costs the global economy a staggering $6.2 trillion per year."

1 of 242 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

This article is self promotion bate. by upuv · 2009-12-28 02:04 · Score: 3, Informative

I've seen so many of these sorts of articles lately on /.
It's really devaluing /.
It would be nice to have some mod facility to get these nuked. It's disappointing that such a long running resource like /. is now being infected with self promotion. One of the best self promotion FAILS was the one about face book switching to some C++ frame work from php in order to save 10s of thousands of servers resources. I'm still laughing about that one.