CenterBeam
Press Release, 3/10/03: Mobile Automation Software Selected by CenterBeam for Management of Enterprise Clients; Agreement Extends Mobile Lifecycle Management to CenterBeam Customers
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2003--Mobile Automation Inc., the leading provider of Mobile Lifecycle Management software, today announced it has reached an agreement for CenterBeam, a leading provider of IT Outsourcing Services, to use Mobile Automation software to manage the IT organizations of CenterBeam's clients.
Mobile Automation's Lifecycle Management Suite(TM), coupled with CenterBeam's expertise in managing information technology infrastructure, will deliver a robust service for CenterBeam's clients. The agreement allows CenterBeam to offer enhanced desktop and mobile device services.
"With the addition of CenterBeam as a Mobile Automation Managed Services Partner, our software will be delivered by a leading IT Outsourcing organization to mid-size companies," said Douglas Neal, president and CEO Mobile Automation Inc. "We are very pleased that CenterBeam made the decision to use our software tools, which provides further marketplace validation of the product's adaptability for use in a wide number of customer environments."
"CenterBeam evaluated many solutions, and chose what we believe is the best. Mobile Automation's checkpoint restart technology in mobile or intermittent connection environments surpasses any other product we have seen. We believe Mobile Automation helps us deliver the best possible service to our clients," said Subhash Tantry, CenterBeam executive vice president for engineering, operations and customer care. "Mobile Automation brings reliability, manageability and security to our clients' IT environments."
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, Calif., and can be reached at 408/844-0900 or www.centerbeam.com.
About Mobile Automation Inc.
Mobile Automation develops mobile lifecycle management solutions that extend the reach of traditional LAN-focused IT organizations to include user management on WAN and wireless networks. Founded in April 1997, Mobile Automation Inc. provides award-winning tools for centrally managing software distribution, application self-healing, asset inventory, remote control and systems migration functionality on all key mobile platforms. These platforms include all Windows OS for PCs, and Windows CE, Palm OS and Blackberry for handheld devices. For more information, please visit www.mobileautomation.com.
Outsourcing
Computerworld, 3/10/03: Breaking Outsourcing Boundaries
Forget following the conventional rules. Focus on the idiosyncrasies of your business.
By KATHLEEN MELYMUKA
The Ins and Outs of Outsourcing
Knowing when to farm out your IT work -- and how -- mean as much to the business side as the deal itself.
Outsourcing is often a dirty word among the IT ranks, but CIO George Lin has used it to boost morale at Documentum Inc., a maker of enterprise content management software in Pleasanton, Calif.
When most companies outsource, Lin says, they "keep the core and outsource the context." But Lin gives employee satisfaction equal weight in the outsourcing decision. That has prompted him to keep in-house some areas that many would consider "context" and outsource some that are "core."
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Security
ZDNet, 3/10/03: Deloder worm threatens DDos attack
By Patrick Gray
A worm which allows hackers to remotely control infected computers is spreading across Asia and the United State and has been upgraded to medium risk, warns antivirus firm Trend Micro.
The virus--dubbed WORM_DELODER.A--has made its way into a large number of machines in China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United State, Trend Micro said in a statement.
The worm leaves behind two Trojan horse programs and may be paving the way for a crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Although the experts are not yet rating the Deloder worm as a high risk to users, the technical make-up of the Trojans it leaves behind is of concern.
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Mobile
eWeek, 3/10/03: Roaming From WLAN to WAN
By Carmen Nobel
As WLANs gain greater acceptance in both corporate environments and public spaces, a handful of companies are busy developing products that will allow users to roam from those wireless LANs to cellular networks.
Vendors including ipUnplugged AB, Padcom Inc., PCTel Inc., Intec Telecom Systems plc. and Intellinet Technologies Inc. next week will unveil technologies designed to make WLANs complement, rather than compete with, high-speed cellular networks.
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Thinking Ahead
The Wall Street Journal, 3/10/03: Untapped Networks
What do Microsoft, Kevin Bacon, and cell-signaling pathways have in common? According to sociologist Duncan Watts, all three are part of the new science of networks.
For Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts, Microsoft's continuing battle with the hacker and the aftermath of 9/11 share a striking similarity: Both reveal the peril and the power of networks. Mr. Watts is one of the leaders in an emerging field he terms the “new science of networks.” Here, large-scale groups of people and microscale networks of biological cells form and re-form according to many of the same principles. Mr. Watts, who is exploring these theories at Columbia's Collective Dynamics Group, recently published a book on the subject titled Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Technology Review editors caught up with Mr. Watts to discuss, among other things, why engineers should start paying close attention to how human networks operate.
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