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Field Force Automation, 5/03: Deployment
CenterBeam, a provider of IT out-sourcing services, has reached an agreement with mobile lifecycle management software provider Mobile Automation. CenterBeam will use Mobile Automation’s software solution to manage the IT organizations of CenterBeam’s clients.
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Outsourcing
ZDNet, 5/26/03: Security Handoff
More large companies are turning to service providers to handle their security
By George V. Hulme
A financial-services firm might be the last company you'd expect to entrust its network security to an outsider. But last week, Merrill Lynch & Co. did just that, signing a global multiyear contract for VeriSign Inc. to monitor and manage more than 300 network-security devices, primarily firewalls and intrusion-detection systems. The implementation is under way and will continue through the fall, says David Bauer, Merrill Lynch's chief information-security and privacy officer.
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Utility Computing
ZDNet, 5/29/03: Dell 'utility computing' not a reality
By Michael Kanellos
Dell Computer will pass on so-called utility computing for now, one of the company's top executives said Wednesday.
Although the concepts behind utility, or on-demand, computing are appealing, the technology for assembling disparate servers and storage systems into coordinated networks that can serve up data almost instantaneously or automatically adjust to spikes in demand doesn't exist in a practical form yet, said Joe Marengi, general manager of Dell's Americas division.
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Big Picture
The Wall Street Journal, 5/29/03: Innovations Are Delayed By Tech-Spending Drought
Companies' Tighter Fists May Stall Progress and Gains in Productivity
By GARY MCWILLIAMS
In 1927, amid a stock-market boom, inventor Philo T. Farnsworth filed his first of 10 patents on television. But the nation plunged into the Great Depression, and Mr. Farnsworth was plagued by a lack of money and patent battles.
The first TV set based on his patents didn't make its public debut until the 1939 World's Fair. Soon thereafter, production fell victim to wartime constraints. It wasn't until 1946, nearly two decades after Mr. Farnsworth's first laboratory successes, that TV broadcasts and sets were widely available.
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