Avnet
Press Release, 3/24/03: Avnet Enterprise Solutions Storage Initiative Delivers Coast-to-Coast Expertise
TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2003--Avnet Enterprise Solutions, a leading IT solutions integrator, announced it has extended its award-winning storage expertise coast-to-coast, launching a national storage initiative. The initiative combines locally based technical expertise with consistent assessment, design and implementation professional services to lower a client's total cost of ownership for storage technology.
As part of this initiative, Avnet Enterprise Solutions launched a national Storage Delivery Services Practice incorporating a network of HP storage-certified engineers, Master Accredited System Engineers (ASE) and technology consultants.
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IT Management
CIO, 3/25/03: Ten Mistakes CIOs Too Often Make
How to get yourself thrown out of the game
Life's too short to make stupid mistakes—or I should say, your career is too short to make the same mistakes others have been making for years and years. We have all seen a promising career derailed too early over something that could have easily been avoided, if only they had known. Wouldn't it be great to peer into the minds of seasoned CIOs and extract the wisdom earned over the years?
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Security
Eweek, 3/25/03: How to Fine-Tune Your VPN Strategy
By Anne Chen
As enterprises expand their corporate networks to new sites, remote workers and partners, they are increasingly deploying virtual private networks on IP technology. And as they do, they are faced with new challenges: In order to deliver quality of service, flexibility and scalability while providing a wide variety of remote access, for example, many organizations have had to deploy and manage multiple types of VPNs.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Watch, 3/25/03: The New New Windows Roadmap
By Mary Jo Foley
What happened to the yellow-brick road that was leading to Blackcomb in 2006?
It's time for Microsoft to generate one of its trusty MapPoint and plot a clear course for Windows.
The starting point is (mostly) certain: Windows Server 2003 (which still has not been released to manufacturing, by the way) will launch on April 24. Whether all of the various SKUs (Web, Standard, 32-bit and 64-bit Enterprise, and 32-bit and 64-bit Datacenter) will start shipping preloaded on various servers on that exact date is another question.
But after the 24th, it's anyone's guess. It's not just dates that are all over the map. Even the actual product set does not seem to be set in stone.
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Computerworld, 3/24/03: Military Investigates System Intrusion Involving Windows 2000 Security Flaw
Microsoft issues patch, but some users may have reboot problems
By Dan Verton and Carol Sliwa
Pentagon sources last week confirmed that officials are investigating an apparent intrusion into at least one military server through a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 operating system.
Microsoft gave the buffer overflow vulnerability a "critical" severity rating and issued a software patch designed to fix the flaw, which involves a component of Windows 2000 that's used to manage the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. Hackers could use the hole to take control of unprotected Web servers, and Microsoft said it has received isolated reports of attempts to exploit the vulnerability.
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Computerworld, 3/24/03: Microsoft's Suite Dreams
Office 2003 has enough new features and improvements to tempt users, despite the cost of an upgrade.
By RUSSELL KAY
It's 2003, and Microsoft Corp. is getting ready to roll out its approximately biennial upgrade to Office, causing IT managers to ask themselves, one more time, whether they should (or indeed whether they can afford to) upgrade. Such an upgrade is never simple or cheap for enterprise IT. In the past, there have been serious downsides, such as when Microsoft changed the basic file formats and created incompatibility headaches for users who hadn't been switched over. And inevitably there are issues with training and support.
This time around, with Office 2003 (apparently, that "XP" nomenclature caused more problems than it solved), Microsoft is concentrating on expanding the envelope with new tools aimed at better collaboration among people.
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Innovative Uses of IT
The Wall Street Journal, 3/25/03: Soldier Helps 101st Stay Wired to Home
By DAN MORSE and JESSE DRUCKER
WITH THE ARMY'S 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION, Northern Kuwait -- "Remember, if you do not hear from me for several days, it is because we lost Internet, or we are gone. Then just watch news for us. Will always love you for eternity," Lt. John Knight, 31 years old, typed in a recent e-mail to his wife in Tennessee.
"I miss you so much I can hardly stand it," wrote Leza Knight, 28, who has kept the volume on her computer speakers turned up so she could hear the beeps throughout the house when her husband's instant messages arrived. (Read excerpts of the Knights' e-mails and instant messages, as well as exchanges between two other soldiers and their wives).
In the 101st Airborne's units here, data cables snake under sandbags and into tents. Inside, laptops sit open atop cardboard boxes and storage crates, ready for soldiers to hit "send" whenever they can.
Up to 300 soldiers have one colleague to thank for this service: Dustin Price, a 21-year-old private from northern Michigan. Since arriving here at Camp New York three weeks ago, he has spliced together nearly two miles of abandoned wires and modems left behind by a U.S. tank division. A crucial piece of the project: A hub-switching box -- hooked into a government network -- that he and his tent-mates originally brought so they could duel in computer games such as "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" and "Warcraft III."
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Press Release, 3/24/03: Kinko’s Connects Military Families with Free Web Access
Dallas—March 24, 2003—Recent news reports estimate that a quarter million U.S. military personnel are currently stationed in the Middle East. To help service members keep in touch with their loved ones, Kinko’s today announced a new “Military Family Support Program.” Through the program, Kinko’s U.S. locations are donating 30 minutes of free high-speed Internet access to help immediate family members stay in touch with those stationed overseas.
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ZDNet, 3/24/03: E-mail patterns map corporate structure
By Lisa M. Bowman
Figuring out a company's power and communication structure may be as simple as examining patterns of e-mail exchanges, according to new research by some Hewlett-Packard scientists.
In the study, researchers attempted to identify different formal and informal communities within an organization by graphing mail flow. Researchers Joshua Tyler, Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo Huberman studied e-mails sent between any two of the 485 workers at Hewlett-Packard labs over a two-month period, examining 185,773 relevant e-mails in the process.
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