CenterBeam
New Coverage of Tarari / CenterBeam Press Release
Outsourcing Central
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CIO Magazine
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Outsourcing
Meta Group, 8/22/02: Trend: Infrastructure "Utility" Outsourcing
Dean Davison
During 2002/03, infrastructure services will increasingly adopt variable pricing (on-demand, consumption-based, etc.), but services and prices will be customized for each client's existing environment through 2006/07. Network outsourcing, mainframe services, and desktop life-cycle capabilities will lead the transition to infrastructure utility. We do not believe that midrange computing will ever achieve utility status at the infrastructure level, because it lacks a common workload measure (such as MIPS), and application pricing (per user, per seat, etc.) will supersede the need for commodity midrange pricing structures.
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Services
Giga, 8/21/02: Obstacles to Service Assurance Product Suites
Service assurance solutions combining infrastructure fault and performance management with root cause analysis and, sometimes, automated corrective actions are increasingly present on the infrastructure management market. They have been, until now, confined to playing a role in midsize to large enterprises. The typical architecture of such products, which collect data from infrastructure components into a central server, was a limiting factor that made them unsuitable for large infrastructures and large enterprises. Federated architectures have recently appeared that could make them suitable for large infrastructures.
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Technology Economy
Information Week, 8/22/02: IT Bust Happened Earlier; Recovery Could Come Earlier, Too
If companies didn't buy as much hardware as originally estimated, they may start buying new sooner than anticipated.
By Eric Chabrow
The technology bubble surrounding the dot-com boom may not have been as immense as first professed. Revised government figures show that the sale of computer hardware in 2000 and 2001--the final years of the dot-com buying frenzy--was sharply lower than initially reported. This could be good news for the IT industry.
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