CenterBeam
Press Release, 2/25/03: CenterBeam Announces New, Innovative Service Increasing System Reliability and Availability
HP Blade Servers Help CenterBeam Bring Large Enterprise Services To Medium Enterprise Clients
SANTA CLARA, CALIF., February 25, 2003 – Today, CenterBeam announced a new service that dramatically increases IT system reliability and availability for its clients. The service, Remote Backup Domain Controllers, ensures that CenterBeam’s clients have critical resources – ranging from user authentication to applications – constantly available.
Large Enterprise IT Services Immediately Available to Medium Enterprises
“A large enterprise implements Remote Backup Domain Controllers because it wants to ensure every user has access to IT resources anytime, anywhere,” said Karen Hayward, CenterBeam’s executive vice president for sales and marketing. “Medium enterprises have the same need but typically don’t have the time, capital and resources required to buy, build, and manage these systems. CenterBeam’s new service changes that and brings the benefit of large enterprise computing to our medium enterprise clients.”
“Today’s announcement builds on the basic premise CenterBeam was founded on,” said Subhash Tantry, CenterBeam’s executive vice president, engineering, operations and customer care. “By applying new technologies and state-of-the-art IT management practices, CenterBeam is able to scale services such as Remote Backup Domain Controllers and make them available and affordable for our clients.”
CenterBeam Solution Built on Hewlett Packard Blade Servers
CenterBeam uses Hewlett Packard BL series blades to create redundant Microsoft Active Directory servers for its clients. This redundancy protects CenterBeam clients from failure by implementing an additional domain controller off-site at CenterBeam’s Network Operations Center. The Remote Backup Domain Controller means that, should the primary controller at the client’s office fail, services are instantly available through the Remote Backup Domain Controller. Users will be able to seamlessly access virtual private network services, messaging, and applications. All of this means that a system failure that could stop a business in its tracks has been successfully and seamlessly avoided, thanks to CenterBeam.
“This is exactly the type of application HP had in mind when it brought its blade servers to market,” said James Mouton, vice president, Platforms, HP Industry Standard Servers. “HP’s blade servers enable customers such as CenterBeam to reduce cost and complexity through integrated management and increased server utilization and pass along the benefit to its clients.”
About CenterBeam, Inc.
CenterBeam manages end-user information technology for organizations interested in saving costs, raising productivity and increasing corporate agility. Founded in 1999, CenterBeam has strategic, financial and technical backing from industry leaders Microsoft, Intel, Dell and EDS. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and can be reached at 408.844.0900 or www.centerbeam.com.
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Outsourcing
Giga, 2/21/03: Co-sourcing vs. Outsourcing: No Substantive Difference
Robert McNeill
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IT Management
Giga, 2/24/03: Relating Strategy, Planning and Architecture: In Essence, a Communication Process
Gene Leganza
What is the best way to describe the relationship of strategy, architecture and planning to each other? What are the major touch points and the best way to ensure linkage among strategy, architecture and planning?
There are three approaches to describing the relationship of strategy, architecture and planning to each other: (1) informal structures and processes but tight communication links between the individuals in planning roles; this approach is typical of small organizations, (2) strong executive leadership that mandates that all the appropriate planning people meet and communicate regularly; this approach is typical of shops of all sizes with a strong CIO but with little process rigor in the culture and (3) formal structures and processes that attempt to create an appropriate planning workflow. This is emerging in more process-oriented environments and is a necessity in distributed organizations if enterprisewide planning is to succeed.
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Giga, 2/21/03: Reducing the Costs of IT Operations
Colin Rankine
What strategies have proven successful in reducing IT operations costs?
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Security
ZDNet, 2/24/03: LoveGate worm carries nasty payload
The LoveGate worm (w32.lovegate@m) is currently spreading in Taiwan, Australia, France, and Japan.
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Mobile
ZDNet, 2/25/03: Palm sets date for all-in-one Tungsten W
By Richard Shim
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As expected, the Milpitas, Calif.-based device maker formally announced Monday that it would begin selling the combination phone, organizer and e-mail device in stores by the end of the month. In addition, Palm said it had teamed with cellular carrier AT&T Wireless to offer customers wireless GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) data service for the handheld.
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Microsoft
News.Com, 2/25/03: Microsoft pushes XP switch
By David Becker
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Giga, 2/21/03: Upgrading to Windows XP vs. Replacing the PC
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PC Market
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Giga, 2/21/03: First Quarter 2003: Desktop Operating System Installed Base
Rob Enderle
What is Giga’s current estimate of the operating system installed base for personal computers?
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