CenterBeam
Computerworld, 11/18/02: Blade Servers: High Density, Low Cost
By Barbara DePompa Reimers
For CenterBeam Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based IT outsourcing services provider, blade servers are the ideal way to pack a great deal of processing power into a small space.
"When you can fit 168 servers in a single rack instead of 32 traditional Unix servers, the space savings alone make them attractive," says Glenn Ricart, chief technology officer at CenterBeam. He calls blade servers "unfurnished apartments" for servers, leveraging a common bus, frame, power supply and cabling.
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Outsourcing
Information Week, 11/18/02: Analyzing The Outsourcers
Customers say they want reliability, trust, skill, and value from their outsourcers. And they give Hewlett-Packard top marks.
By Robin Gareiss
Ah, the start of a promising courtship, the dreams and hopes for a happy future together. Then the first (then the second and the third) disagreement surfaces, and the reality of melding backgrounds, ideals, and goals looks so complicated.
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Information Week, 11/18/02: Setting Strategy: Can Outsourcers Help?
By Robin Gareiss
Outsourcing customers aren't very impressed with the strategies and innovations their outsourcers deliver along with reliable service. Then again, many managers think that's just fine.
CIOs often say thanks
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Information Week, 11/18/02: Team Building: Managers' First Job Is Building Trust
One of the biggest challenges facing a manager who brings in an outsourcing firm -- especially one that's overseas -- is to build trust and communication between the staffers and the outsiders.
By Robin Gareiss
When Farmers Insurance CIO Cecilia Claudio told her staff that she was handing much of their workload to Wipro Technologies, a fast-growing outsourcing firm in India, few believed her motives. Claudio insisted that she wanted to tap lower-cost labor in India to handle mundane maintenance functions so her own staff could focus on more exciting Java and Web-based initiatives.
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Security
Information Week, 11/19/02: Microsoft Advises That It Will Improve Advisories
Vendor aims to make security advisories easier for customers to comprehend.
By George V. Hulme
Microsoft, which says it's committed to increasing the security and availability of its applications and operating systems, said Tuesday that it will improve the way it notifies customers regarding "critical" security advisories.
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Digital Life
Fortune, 11/25/02: Log Off, You Losers!
Electronic flatulence must cease!
FORTUNE
By Stanley Bing
They say all good things must come to an end. Thankfully, the same is often true of bad things. Sometimes you have to give the evil that men do a little guidance in the direction of the door, however. So let's do that right now.
I want all of you within the sound of my voice to pause. Put your hands in your laps. Close your eyes and ask yourselves: Is the e-mail I'm about to send necessary? And if not, is it at least fun? If you cannot answer yes to either of those questions--don't hit that send button. Electronic flatulence must cease!
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