IT Management
eWeek, 9/16/03: Fine-Tuning Data Centers
By Jeffrey Burt
New and enhanced software and hardware from BladeLogic Inc. and RLX Technologies Inc. will let enterprises more easily manage data center resources.
Version 5 of BladeLogic's Operations Manager software, which will be launched this week, offers improved provisioning, compliance management and security.
When developing Operations Manager 5, the Bedford, Mass., company focused on five areas: provisioning and change management, patch management, security, management reporting, and building an enterprise-scale product that can support thousands of servers in multiple locations. Users can undo changes to files, rather than reproduce all the files, and can provision bare-metal servers.
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Security
Computerworld, 9/15/03: Attacks on New Windows Flaws Expected Soon
Experts say hackers have a head start in taking advantage of latest holes found in Microsoft OS
Story by Jaikumar Vijayan
SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Companies will have even less time than usual to properly protect themselves against attackers attempting to take advantage of three critical flaws in Windows software that were revealed last week by Microsoft Corp.
Because the flaws are nearly identical to the one that the Blaster worm exploited last month, users can expect to see copycat attacks in the very near future, according to several security experts. As a result, it's important for companies to patch their systems or otherwise protect themselves against the flaws as expeditiously as possible, they said.
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C|net, 9/16/03: Ballmer: Stop viruses before they start
By Ina Fried
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer warned Monday that recent security vulnerabilities represent a "new and growing challenge to innovation" and conceded that his company is under attack from "thieves, con artists, terrorists and hackers."
In response, the Redmond, Wash., software giant plans to develop new means for thwarting such attackers and aims to shut down the invasions before they wreak the havoc seen with recent viruses such as MSBlast.
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C|net, 9/16/03: A New Deal for Internet security
By Ken Silva
In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, newly elected president, pledged to create a "new deal for the American people." Designed to help the United States out of its worst economic depression, the New Deal was an opportunity to rebuild the American infrastructure.
An unprecedented amount of legislation was passed establishing agencies to rebuild America's highways, dams and bridges--the vast majority of which are still used and depended on every day. That investment in physical infrastructure was our greatest ever, and it's now time for a similar investment in the Internet's infrastructure--both in shoring up actual underpinnings and in teaching people how to be more cyberaware.
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Optimism
The Harvard Crimson, 9/15/03: Capitalism's Next Revolution
By SHOSHANA ZUBOFF
As you shop for new classes this week, consider this: the pandemic of corporate narcissism, greed, rigidity and sheer cluelessness that you have been reading about all summer is a sign of the ripening conditions for economic revolution. We are facing a once-in-a-century opportunity for wholesale innovation and extreme creativity comparable to the rise of mass markets and mass production nearly 100 years ago. It is a time for a new generation—yours—to reinvent capitalism for our times. Your fresh insight and heart can ignite the next wave of wealth creation capable of carrying the global economy to new heights of prosperity and community. Here is why.
We are living in a period of “disruptive capitalism,” because we have changed more than the companies we depend on as consumers and employees. Today, we have all become history’s shock absorbers, struggling to reconcile our new needs with the demands of an exhausted business model. A chasm has developed between organizations and us. It is filled with our stress, outrage and frustration. Anxiety is widespread and most people feel that they are being forced to fight over an ever-shrinking pie. How did we get here?
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