Today’s News
IT Services
Gartner, 2/10/03: Worldwide IT Services Market Forecast, 2001-2005
Gartner Dataquest has updated the forecast for the worldwide IT services market by service segment and region, taking into account changes in the economic and political environment and in IT services' vendor revenue results since the spring IT services forecast.
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IT Management
Giga, 2/12/03: The Role of Automation and Integration in Network
Jean-Pierre Garbani
What is the market for intelligent network management? Is there market demand for a pre-integrated intelligent network management and performance reporting solution?
The trend in infrastructure management and network management is to consider problems from the end-user perspective. As a user, long response times or unavailable applications fundamentally have the same impact on productivity. In terms of network management, this leads to the integration of fault and performance management into a single view of network problems. Integrating the two management disciplines expands the number and nature of problems detected and consequently the way intelligence and automation can be applied to these management solutions.
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Security
Giga, 2/11/03: The Four Categories of Security Technology
Steve Hunt
How may the hundreds of security products be categorized and basically differentiated?
The four A’s are the fundamental categories in which all security technologies fall. Used properly, they are a useful vocabulary to ensure that security efforts actually related to business requirements. A business ultimately will achieve efficient and effective security only insofar as its business managers and IT security staff communicate clearly.
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Wired News, 2/13/03: What Symantec Knew But Didn't Say
By Michelle Delio
Security firm Symantec withheld information about at least one big cyberthreat for hours after spotting it, possibly harming millions of Internet users.
Symantec claims to have identified the Slammer worm that ravaged the Internet during the last weekend of January hours before anyone else did.
Symantec then shared the information only with select customers, leaving the rest of the global community to get slapped around by Slammer.
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Mobile
Computerworld, 2/13/03: Tenet Health deploys system to support 1,000 handhelds
By BOB BREWIN
When it comes to mobile devices, one type doesn't always meet the needs of an enterprise, let alone the personal preferences of hundreds or thousands of users. That's why Jeff Lett, senior director of technical operations at Tenet Health Care Corp. in Santa Barbara, Calif., decided he needed a system that supports a wide range of mobile devices running multiple operating systems and using a variety of wireless networks. And he needed one that didn't require a torturous setup and configuration of back-end systems for each device.
Lett said he found his answer with SureWave Enterprise Server software from JP Mobile Inc. in Dallas. He said the software acts as the "glue" to tie a variety of mobile devices into his back-end systems.
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 2/14/03: Microsoft muscles into business reporting
By Martin LaMonica
Microsoft plans to embed a business-reporting feature into its SQL Server database software, a move that will likely cause jitters among specialized business-reporting software companies.
The software giant said Wednesday that in the first half of this year it will begin a testing program for SQL Server Reporting Services, a planned add-on feature for a forthcoming SQL Server database code-named Yukon. Business reporting tools pull information from databases and generate preformatted reports, such as regular updates on sales.
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Computerworld, 2/13/03: Microsoft officially kicks off midmarket CRM tool
By Ryan B. Patrick, ITWorldCanada.com
Depending on who you ask, Microsoft Corp.'s dive into the customer relationship management (CRM) market will cause either a splash or a ripple.
Geared specifically toward the small and midsize business market -- organizations with fewer than 500 workers -- the company's Business Solutions unit officially kicked off its CRM product last Thursday at an event in downtown Toronto. Dubbed Microsoft Business Solutions Customer Relationship Management, the application is built on Microsoft's .Net infrastructure.
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Computerworld, 2/13/03: `Microsoft eyes the virtual data center
By James Niccolai, IDG News Service
Microsoft Corp. hopes to play alongside Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others in developing "virtual data center" software that will make it easier to manage applications running across groups of servers, a company executive said yesterday.
"It's a problem that we're pretty excited about solving, and there are lots of things we're doing to tackle it across the company," Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows server group, said in a presentation at the company's Silicon Valley campus.
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The Weekend
The New York Times, 2/14/03: Blind Lawyer as Hero in Red Leather
By ELVIS MITCHELL
SOMETIMES playing a comic-book hero gives actors a chance to show suave, stylized moves. After stripping off their civvies, they emerge from the phone booth a star. Christopher Reeve gave a breezy, farcical charge to Superman and Clark Kent. As Batman and his alter ego, the wastrel playboy Bruce Wayne, Michael Keaton seemed to have a thousand things on his mind, most of them unpleasant. Hugh Jackman, Wolverine of "X-Men," had a combative, compulsive snarl. He came to life when prodded to fight.
But poor Ben Affleck is lost in the minor, passable "Daredevil," where he portrays the blind, red-costumed and horn-headed crime fighter whose other senses — hearing, touch, taste — were exaggerated in the chemical accident that cost him his sight.
A big man, Mr. Affleck is shriveled by the one-dimensional role. Even his scarlet leather outfit makes him diminutive. The interlocked double D on his left breast makes him look like part of the food-service industry: "Hi, I'm Daredevil, and I'll be your superhero this evening."
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