Outsourcing
Gartner, 9/17/03: Data Center Outsourcing Magic Quadrant: Execute Criteria
Gartner's Magic Quadrant evaluates external service providers based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Here are the Ability to Execute criteria used for data center outsourcing ESPs.
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IT Management
Gartner, 9/17/03: Management Update: Storage Management TCO Considerations
CIOs, asset managers, data center managers and business managers should be aware of the total cost of ownership (TCO) figures for their storage systems. Storage is a significant, and increasing, cost item in data centers and throughout enterprises.
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Gartner, 9/10/03: Changing Responsibilities for IT Management: Client Issues
CEOs believe that the IS organization has failed to deliver on promises of increased productivity across business functions. IT governance, IS roles and IS responsibilities must change to meet these expectations.
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Meta, 8/28/03: The Adaptive Organization Model: An Operational Perspective Enterprise Application Strategies, Human Capital Management Service, Infrastructure
Corey Ferengul
Organizations are embarking on efforts to become adaptive organizations (AOs; see Figure 1). To better understand what functions, strategies, technologies, and structures are impacted by adaptive organization efforts, META Group has created an adaptive organization model (AOM) — an operational perspective. Companies will rarely embark on a single effort to become an AO; rather, they will create multiple tactical efforts, covering one or more areas outlined in the AOM. For maximum impact of AO efforts, companies should understand the effect AO concepts have across the organization, as outlined in the model, ensuring the efforts come together to provide maximum benefit.
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Security
Garnter, 9/18/03: Guidelines for Choosing to Outsource Security Management
Consider capability and cost when deciding whether to outsource your organization's security monitoring and management.
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SME
Gartner, 9/16/03: SMB IT Services Buying Trends and Preferences, 2003
In 2003, the small and midsize business (SMB) IT services market will present a $118 billion opportunity in the United States alone. This is a lucrative market with unique characteristics, needs and preferences. With little desire to deal with global, best-of-breed IT services providers, the positioning and messaging to succeed among these enterprises must be unique to the individual SMB segments defined by enterprise size and further by vertical and region. IT services vendors must pay close attention to how, from whom and what SMBs want to consume from outside providers. Gartner Dataquest provides feedback from SMBs to provide such a perspective.
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C|net, 9/22/03: Dell thinks small with Windows server
By Dinesh C. Sharma
Dell has unveiled a server bundled with Microsoft's Windows operating system, targeted at small and medium-size businesses.
On Monday, the Round Rock, Texas, company said its new PowerEdge 400 SC server would come with preinstalled Windows Small Business Server 2003 software and would cost around $1,000.
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Gartner, 9/18/03: Small and Midsize Businesses Stage Recovery in IT Spending
By Lewis Clark, Rob Brown and Jim Browning
Abstract: Market drivers for IT spending indicate that growth rates for small and midsize businesses will outpace larger companies in the budding technology market recovery.
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Mobile
C|net, 9/22/03: Desktop to go where Migo goes
By Ed Frauenheim
A new USB-based flash memory device promises to capture a broad range of data from a computer user's PC and replicate that "personal desktop" on any other compatible Windows-based computer.
The product, dubbed Migo and made by Forward Solutions, transfers a user's customized desktop--including the desktop background image with personal settings, Internet favorites, e-mail accounts, MP3 files and documents--onto a device the size of a key, according to Forward Solutions.
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Microsoft
Computerworld, 9/22/03: A Question of Credibility
Opinion by Maryfran Johnson
SEPTEMBER 22, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Ironically enough, Forrester Research was hoping to shore up its credibility -- not punch a great gaping hole in it -- when it recently disclosed that Microsoft financed its re- port claiming a "substantial cost advantage" for Windows over Linux.
But this unusual revelation backfired when users cut right through the smoke and mirrors. As we reported last week on our front page, the Forrester study looked biased, bought and paid for by Microsoft as part of its relentless campaign to discredit open-source technologies in general and Linux in particular.
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eWeek, 9/23/03: Microsoft Rolls Out Beta of XP 64-Bit Edition
By Peter Galli
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will announce the beta availability of a native 64-bit version of its Windows XP operating system that is designed to support 64-Bit Extended Systems, including platforms based on AMD64 technology.
Microsoft will make the announcement at AMD's launch of the AMD Athlon 64 processor in San Francisco.
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Future Focus
Release 1.0, 9/16/03: Online Registries: The DNS and Beyond...
As the world grows more connected and more complicated, we all need ways of defining, identifying and keeping track of things and cross-referencing them with their owners. The simplest way to do that is with registries – everything from the Domesday Book, a medieval registry of land, property and people; to current-day auto registries on the one hand and the worldwide Domain Name System on the other. In today’s computer world, registries are gaining visibility, even though in some form they have been around for a long time (cf. Novell’s Directory, Microsoft’s Active Directory, and even IBM’s old mainframe catalogue).
But now, companies and organizations have to keep track of ever more things and people, not just inside their walls but across extended organizational boundaries. Call this new wrinkle an “external registry.” Finally, they may want to interact with things and people, rather than just look them up, via an “active registry.” The DNS is the best-known example of an active, external registry. Its technical function, automatically translating the logical address of a URL into a (semi-) physical IP address, supports the Net’s rapid growth while the mnemonic character of URLs facilitates the e-mail and Web connections among businesses and people that have driven that stunning growth.
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