Outsourcing
Infoworld, 9/5/03: Government agencies wary of offshore outsourcing
Federal and state governments explore outsourcing issues
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service September 04, 2003
WASHINGTON - Some government agencies in the U.S. hope to outsource certain IT functions to private vendors in the coming years, but they have concerns about the political fallout if outsourced jobs were to go overseas, and in some cases don't know enough about their IT assets to make an informed decision on what to outsource.
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ZDNet, 9/5/03: Report: BPO companies 'overhype' services
By Ed Frauenheim
Companies hawking business-process outsourcing services exaggerate their abilities, according to a recent report from Forrester Research.
What's more, business process outsourcing (BPO) will not generate the sort of big deals that large service providers desire--deals that involve taking on more than one kind of business task, according to the report, released Tuesday.
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Meta, 8/14/03: On-Demand Outsourcing Outsourcing & Service Provider Strategies, Service Management Strategies
Dean Davison
Although some herald on demand as a new age of outsourcing, others observe that commoditization has been a common industry trend for years. After digging beneath marketing messages and sales rhetoric, most IT organizations discover that the current innovations are merely incremental improvements in an industry already in flux.
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Meta, 8/7/03: Dimensioning an Outsourcing Requirement Outsourcing & Service Provider Strategies, Global Networking Strategies
Don Carros
One of the biggest challenges users face in making an outsourcing decision is establishing the dimensions of what to outsource.
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IT Management
Giga, 8/3/03: Look First to Existing IT Portfolio for Sarbanes-Oxley Complaint Management Functionality
Erica Rugullies
Contributing Analyst: John Ragsdale
Analyst collaboration on technology opportunities and limitations for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
What software options exist to help companies meet the complaint management requirements of Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and what should be the preferred option?
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ZDNet, 9/5/03: CIOs on the chopping block?
By Andy McCue
The role of CIO may not exist in the future as other board members take on more responsibility for technology strategy and operations, claims a leading analyst.
Speaking at the NCC conference on 'The next role of the IT leader' in London, David Metcalfe, research director at Forrester Research, said investment in technology is coming under increasing scrutiny and control of non-tech board members.
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Utility Computing
C|net, 9/4/03: HP builds grid services, products
By John G. Spooner and Stephen Shankland
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday launched a new services program designed to help customers build and maintain computer grids, and said it would equip its entire product line with grid capabilities.
Grids are essentially collections of computers or computer networks, connected in a way that allows for sharing of processing power and storage as well as applications and data.
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Security
Computerworld, 9/5/03: First of perhaps many 9/11 viruses emerges
Experts suspect fear-mongering as a motivation for the 'low-threat' virus
Story by Dan Verton
SEPTEMBER 04, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Antivirus researchers late yesterday discovered what is being described as the first of potentially many 9/11 anniversary viruses spreading on the Internet.
While it's too early to tell what, if any, damage the new virus is causing, Eric Kwon, president and CEO of San Jose-based Hauri Inc., the company that discovered the virus, said its effect seems to be similar to that of the recent outbreak of the Sobig worm, which overloaded e-mail servers with large volumes of spam.
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C|net, 9/5/03: A historical cure for viruses
By Michael Kanellos
A world weary of computer viruses needs to take a tip from Nathan Rothschild.
Like other financial institutions in the summer of 1815, the House of Rothschild--owned by the London businessman's family--realized that its future depended on the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo. Holding bonds from the winning side guaranteed success; holding the debt of the losers meant ruin.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Watch, 9/5/03: Microsoft Preps More Windows Infrastructure
By Mary Jo Foley
This week, Microsoft released for to the Web for download its Automated Deployment Services (ADS) set of tools. ADS layers on top of Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise Edition or higher) to deploy Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 onto bare server hardware. Also, according to this report, it looks like Microsoft is planning to unveil officially its Systems Management Server 2003 system-management product in November at the Microsoft IT Forum in Cophenhagen.
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Optimism
The Register, 9/5/03: IT recovery: once bitten, twice shy
In one way or another, things are starting to look up, and the indications on Wall Street are that the economy might be recovering. With a rebound in the economy will come the inevitable and understandably wary optimism that might even cause a sustained, slight increase in IT spending.
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Dan Bricklin Weblog, 9/5/03: John Chambers talk
This morning I attended a talk by John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems. It was hosted by Northeastern University's College of Business Administration. There was a half hour or so of standing around with coffee, followed by a sit down breakfast, and then a 15 minute talk by John and about 30 minutes of questions and answers. He seems to be a relatively easy-going person at such events, and gave his presentation using a lapel mike while walking around. Cisco and John were in the news this morning with a positive report about August orders.
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C|net, 9/4/03: Intel says its revenue is looking up
By Michael Kanellos
Intel has revised its revenue expectations for the third quarter, and the new figures indicate that the chipmaker is having a stronger-than-expected quarter.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said Thursday that revenue for the period ending in September would likely come to between $7.6 billion and $7.8 billion.
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