CenterBeam
Computerworld, 9/16/02: The Next Chapter
By MITCH BETTS
Web Services Alert
In two years, system and network administrators will be required to maintain all the systems they do today, plus new technologies such as Web services and collaborative communication services. It will be like an auto shop that has to maintain Model Ts and Formula One race cars and everything in between. This will add a tremendous burden to IT administrators. Just when they have more to support than ever before, they'll also be supporting systems that are critical to business revenue. Smart IT managers will start investing now in the tools and talent they need to meet these challenges.
Sheldon Laube, chairman, CenterBeam Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.
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IT Management
VAR Business, 9/16/02:
Rationalizing IT Investment
By Rich Cirillo, VARBusiness
With the outlook for capital IT spending hovering somewhere between weak and nonexistent, solution providers of all shapes and sizes are scrambling to revamp their value propositions. For those that can't evolve from simply being a dealer of new technology to something more useful to their clients, the future grows dimmer by the quarter. So it's no coincidence that a number of VARs and integrators are changing their go-to-market strategies to fit these new realities.
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CIO, 9/15/02: The Powers That Should Be
DAVID DREW USED TO have his own supergroup for IT decision making at 3M: the Information Systems Steering Committee. He had all six business division chiefs in there, along with the top functional leaders, meeting together six times a year to do nothing but jam on IT strategy, endorse IT projects of more than $1 million and prioritize IT resources.
It was great while it lasted. In a company of strong business units—each focused on their own wants and needs—the committee was Drew's base for creating consensus for a unified IT strategy. But when W. James McNerney, the company's new CEO, took over in January 2001, he broke up Drew's group. And the business unit executives didn't protest. They already had to prioritize IT resources for their own unit; they didn't want to do it at the corporate level too.
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Computerworld, 9/16/02: Why One Console Won't Do
By Drew Robb
The ideal for network and systems management (NSM), its Holy Grail, would be a single console through which all network objects could be monitored enterprisewide. Some IT managers claim to have reached this goal; most say it is unattainable.
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Microsoft
Computerworld, 9/15/02: Windows XP Slow to Gain Foothold
Many IT managers hold off on desktop OS, citing costs and recent Win 2k rollouts
By CAROL SLIWA
Consumers may be buying into Windows XP on new PCs, but many corporate users are still putting off plans to migrate to Microsoft Corp.'s nearly one-year-old desktop operating system.
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Wireless
Reuters, 9/16/02: Wireless Use to Nearly Double by 2006 - Study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wireless usage in the United States will nearly double by 2006 from 2001 levels as more and more consumers use their cell phones to make calls that they previously made from traditional telephones, a study said on Monday.
According to a study by the Yankee Group, wireless subscribers are expected to increase their monthly minutes of use to 641 by 2006 from 356 in 2001 and 109 in 1994.
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