CenterBeam
HP Press Release, 1/20/03: HP First Major Vendor to Introduce Four-processor Blade Server
SAN Connectivity in Two- and Four-processor Blades Extends HP ProLiant BL Line Further into the Enterprise
Building on its worldwide leadership in the Intel-based server market,(1) HP (NYSE:HPQ) today became the first major server vendor to introduce a four-processor blade server. With the new HP ProLiant BL40p server, HP's blade server portfolio now spans one-, two- and four-processor systems, allowing enterprise data centers, service providers and telecommunications companies to build complete, multi-tiered environments using blade servers.
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“CenterBeam has built the core of its IT architecture on HP ProLiant e-class and p-class blade servers. They meet CenterBeam's exacting standards for performance, reliability and scalability," said Dr. Glenn Ricart, chief technology officer, CenterBeam. "Equally important is that CenterBeam can manage the HP blade servers with HP OpenView and ProLiant Essentials, critical tools in our management strategy. We are very enthusiastic about the products HP has introduced today."
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Computerworld, 1/20/03: HP introduces four processor blade server
By BOB BREWIN
Hewlett-Packard Corp. introduced today what it described as the first four processor blade server from a "major" manufacturer, with prices starting at $8,999.
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Dr. Glenn Ricart, CTO of CenterBeam Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based IT outsourcing services provider, said his company intends to evaluate the new HP blade server because it "not only extends processing power but helps create a simple and powerful storage network. This makes it easy to scale both processing and SAN to meet whatever demands our clients have."
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Computerworld, 1/20/03: The Next Chapter: Wide-Area Networks
By MITCH BETTS
JANUARY 20, 2003
CLOUDS AHEAD
Private wide-area networks are dead; long live the public cloud. With the advent of inexpensive, secure, easy-to-manage public connections that reach the entire range of available IT devices, businesses will run, not walk, to put their WANs over the public cloud.
-- Sheldon Laude, chairman, CenterBeam Inc., Santa Clara, Calif
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Outsourcing
Meta Group, 1/13/03: Outsourcing Midrange Consolidation
Service Management Strategies
Dean Davison
Due to cost-reduction mandates and long-standing promises of emerging technology that can consolidate midrange servers, IT organizations are evaluating outsourcing to accelerate midrange server consolidation. However, outsourcer capabilities are still limited. Indeed, outsourcing vendors can provide various consolidation services (e.g., physical consolidation), but they are also awaiting mature technology to create midrange “LPARs” (i.e., partitioning) and the efficiency they promise.
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Meta, 12/31/02: Architecting the Business Process Outsourcing Decision: To BPO or Not to BPO?
Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies
Tim Westbrock
Business process/function outsourcing (BPO/BFO) is increasingly becoming a common consideration for Global 2000 executives looking to cut expenses and gain efficiencies within their enterprise. Deciding which business processes to outsource, however, should be an architected decision, enabled through holistic enterprise architecture.
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IT Consulting
Giga, 1/17/03: As Consulting Brand Recognition Disappears Companies More Focused on Price
Richard Peynot
In the past, companies ranked quality (first), recognition (second) and price (third) as the main decision criteria in consulting firm selection. With added market pressure and recognition decreasing or disappearing due to the number of mergers and acquisitions, end-user companies are now ranking price as the primary decision criterion when selecting a system integrator or a consulting firm. Indeed, we can expect a loss of identity, experience and expertise with the disappearance of famous brands and the dilution of teams. However, it is interesting to evaluate or re-evaluate the efficiency of new organizations built on pieces of former leading consulting firms. Focusing only on price may be dangerous, since too much pressure might lead to poor delivery quality. It will be one to two more years before new consulting firms will stabilize and re-establish their reputation. During this period, end-user companies will have more difficulty evaluating the quality of teams and the efficiency of methodologies and processes of new IT service players, but should not reduce expectation or review of these areas.
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IS Management
Gartner, 1/17/03: Running IS Like a Business: Introducing the ISCo Model
Internal service providers are under siege, driven to reduce costs and increase value or face being outsourced. Many are responding by modeling themselves after external service providers: that is, by running themselves as competitive businesses.
Today's most-successful enterprises have developed a deep understanding of the impact that their business infrastructure (for example, IT, human resources, real estate and finance) has on strategy execution. Internal service reliability, effectiveness and flexibility are often the critical "make or break" issues behind business initiatives. This places tremendous pressures on the internal providers of business infrastructure to become competitive, not only at managing costs, but in keeping their services "evergreen" and in understanding and responding to the role that they play in their enterprise. Unfortunately, most of these organizations have evolved in a manner that impedes their ability to perform.
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Security
Giga, 1/17/03: Wireless LAN Monitoring Is Absolutely Critical, but Which Direction Should You Take?
Stan Schatt
Giga Position
Security concerns are driving the wireless local area network (WLAN) monitoring and management market. A portable wireless LAN network analyzer is an absolute must for troubleshooting and monitoring for intruders, but clients should be selective, since some high-end products lack the functionality of wired LAN products yet are just as expensive. In most cases, Giga clients should avoid expensive third-party WLAN management systems and wait for their first-tier WLAN vendors to upgrade their own management systems in 2003.
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