CenterBeam
CBS MarketWatch, 7/8/03: CenterBeam Introduces Hosted Microsoft Exchange Service
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jul 8, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today, CenterBeam introduced its Hosted Microsoft Exchange Service -- a premium, enterprise-class messaging service for mid-size enterprises. CenterBeam's Hosted Microsoft Exchange Service is secure, supported by experts and scalable.
CenterBeam Delivers Enterprise-Class Messaging Utility
"Messaging is the most important business productivity application today. It is as necessary for business as the telephone and electricity," said Kevin Francis, CenterBeam president and chief executive officer. "CenterBeam's Hosted Microsoft Exchange Service is a highly-secure service supported by a team of skilled engineers that can be scaled to meet the changing demands of a mid-size enterprise. Just like the telephone company, CenterBeam delivers the 'utility' of enterprise-class messaging to companies so they don't have to invest precious resources to build and staff this essential service themselves."
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EDS
ZDNet, 7/7/03: EDS set to protect mobile data
By Ed Frauenheim
Hoping to cash in on a growing disaster-recovery market, Electronic Data Systems on Monday launched a service to protect data held on desktop computers, laptops and personal digital assistants.
The company said its new service, Mobile Information Protection, allows companies to back up data on mobile devices automatically, as well as to restore lost or damaged information.
"As employee productivity becomes even more dependent on mobile computing platforms, corporate information assets are at greater risk of loss or theft," Sandi Scullen, global leader of EDS' Intelligent Storage Services unit, said in a statement. EDS is based in Plano, Texas.
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Adaptive Computing
Optimize, 6/03: Adaptive Pricing Comes Into Focus
If there's anything harder than deciding what to outsource, it's negotiating a fair price.
In the past, fixed-price or cost-plus pricing models were an adequate, if imprecise, way to compensate outsourcers. But today's competitive marketplace offers CIOs new alternatives that add flexibility and agility to these relationships. Indexed pricing, gain sharing, and capacity or utility pricing promise a stronger correlation between business results and IT-resource consumption. They also add risk, though, in the form of complexity and costly overhead. CIOs need to balance flexible prices with ease of administration and make sure pricing mechanisms allow the requirements of the business to drive technology decisions, rather than the other way around.
Another intriguing new option, still in its infancy, is adaptive pricing—pricing based on algorithms that respond to business fluctuations by adjusting charges in near-real time. Adaptive pricing is a natural extension of demand-driven pricing, but offers an unprecedented degree of automation that relieves the operational burden—and lowers the cost.
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Information Technology
Computerworld, 7/7/03: IT does so matter!
By KATHLEEN MELYMUKA
Our recent interview with Nicholas G. Carr about his article in the May issue of Harvard Business Review caused an uproar in IT circles (see story). His thesis, that IT has become a commodity that no longer provides strategic advantage, was so passionately refuted by readers and some of the big thinkers in the IT world that we felt compelled to give equal time to their views. Kathleen Melymuka spoke separately with Rob Austin and Andrew McAfee, both assistant professors of technology and operations management at Harvard Business School; Paul A. Strassmann, an IT management consultant, a Computerworld columnist and recently the acting CIO at NASA; and Tom DeMarco, a Cutter Consortium analyst and co-author of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (Dorset House, 2003). They make the case for why IT matters more than ever.
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WiFi
Wall Street Journal, 7/8/03: Laptop Users Face Obstacles As More Chains Go Wireless
By JESSE DRUCKER and ALMAR LATOUR
Dozens of companies, hoping to become the locale of choice for laptop luggers, are now installing wireless networks everywhere from hotel lobbies to coffee shops. The problem: Lots of people still don't know how to get logged in.
The race to expand the high-speed wireless technology known as Wi-Fi, short for wireless fidelity, has accelerated in recent weeks. Tuesday, McDonald's Corp. will announce it is installing Wi-Fi access in more than 70 of its fast-food restaurants in and around San Francisco. Phone company SBC Communications Inc. is expected to set up Wi-Fi in 2,000 locations such as hotels and airports over the next year. Wi-Fi, which enables Web surfers to wander up to about 300 feet from a central access point, is already in many airports and in thousands of Starbucks Corp. coffee shops. These public Wi-Fi locales are known as "hot spots."
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News From Saint John
Saint John Telegraph Journal, 7/8/03: Pro baseball has eye on Moncton
BY NEIL HODGE
MONCTON - The new Canadian Baseball League is eyeing New Brunswick for both the present and future.
The upstart professional league, which began operating this spring, confirmed on Monday that it's focused on Moncton as a potential site for an expansion franchise and maybe it could happen as early as next summer.
Robert Seaman, the CBL's director of sales and marketing, also confirmed that the league is looking into the possibility of staging some games at Kiwanis Park in Moncton this summer.
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