CenterBeam
VAR Business, 5/27/02: Big Apple Agreement
Outplacement and career-services agency Lee Hecht Harrison has chosen CenterBeam to deliver complete end-user IT services for its New York office. CenterBeam specializes in the provision of networked systems designed for decentralized businesses where on-site IT personnel isn't economical.
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Outsourcing
ZDNet, 5/28/02: Loudcloud Automates Patch Management
By Paula Musich
With security at the forefront of most IT worries, managed services provider Loudcloud Inc. has announced a series of automated security functions it has added to its enhanced Managed Services 3.0 offering.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., service provider enhanced its Opsware automation platform with automated security patch management, auditing and monitoring. The automated security features are an integral part of Loudcloud's Application and Infrastructure Services, Deployment and Launch Services, and Host-based Intrusion Detection Services.
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Gartner, The Services Value Chain Provides Framework for Joint Ventures
User organizations will look to leverage their business process and industry expertise by forming partnerships with providers and creating the next wave of consolidation in the IT services sector.
The emergence of a new construct for joint ventures between users and vendors, the Business Services Value Chain, will force significant consolidation of the IT services supply-side sector within the next five years (see Figure 1). The Business Services Value Chain lays out four distinct roles and responsibilities for various types of providers, their buyers, management consultants, common infrastructure providers, applications integrators, process architects and business solution aggregators. This is not a prime and subcontractor relationship; it is a group of equal business partners coming to the table with specific, market-leading competencies, identifying a group of similar buyers, and delivering that vertical solution repeatedly, reliably and cost-effectively.
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Computer Industry
Reuters, 5/29/02: Intel doubles Itanium speed
Intel said Wednesday that its next-generation Itanium 2 processor, aimed at high-end servers and supercomputers, performs as much as two times faster than computers using first-generation Itanium chips.
The chipmaker, based in Santa Clara, Calif., also said that Itanium, Intel's second 64-bit chip, is on track to be introduced in the middle of this year. A 64-bit chip crunches data in 64-bit chunks, compared with 32-bit chunks found in Intel's current Pentium and Xeon processors.
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IT Management
CNET News.com, 5/28/02: For CIOs, hiring outlook is cautious
By Rachel Konrad
Senior technology executives throughout the United States are cautiously optimistic in their hiring predictions for the third quarter, though in some regional markets, they are downright bullish.
According to a new study by Menlo Park, Calif.-based RHI Consulting, CIOs nationwide forecast a net 13 percent increase in the hiring of information technology professionals in the third quarter. The same group predicted a 10 percent increase in the previous quarterly survey.
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Press Release, 5/28/02: IDC Predicts Worldwide Business and IT Consulting Markets to Pick Up in 2003, Despite Convergence of The Two Services Markets
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite tremendous changes taking place on the demand and supply sides, IDC reveals that the worldwide business consulting and IT consulting services markets will both recuperate by 2003, and reach $54.2 billion and $32.2 billion respectively in 2006. The global business consulting market will increase at a slightly faster pace than the IT consulting market (11% compared to 9.8% through 2006), two new reports from IDC estimate.
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Microsoft
Network Computing, 5/27/02: Microsoft Preps SMS for Mobile Duty
By Bruce Boardman
Microsoft is serious about network management, so much so that the company recently unveiled some intriguing details pertaining to the next release of its Systems Management Server.
Formerly code-named Topaz, SMS 2003 won't hit the shelves for at least another nine to 12 months. But the product's promised ability to better use existing network infrastructure while supporting a wider array of devices warrants your attention now. The catch: Only some of SMS 2003's goodies will ship with the product.
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