Security
eWeek, 10/13/03: Tools Streamline Patch Management
By Paula Musich
A handful of vendors are developing new ways to help users attack their growing backlogs of security patches.
Marimba Inc. this week will launch its first foray into security patch management with a version of its change management software tailored to the deployment of hot fixes and anti-virus patches. And Microsoft Corp. will soon ship its Systems Management Server 2003 change management tool with a new patch deployment wizard and vulnerability assessment and mitigation reporting.
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Computer Weekly, 10/14/03: SMEs buckle under spam and virus deluge
Many small businesses lack the experience to contend with the onslaught of technology.
Many small companies probably do not have an IT specialist, let alone an IT department, so it is important to note that this category of business generates a great deal of wealth and yet is often the least prepared for the constant onslaught of technology.
IT suppliers that target small companies would do well to understand some of the main technological issues small businesses have to contend with.
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Mobile
Computerworld, 10/13/03: Microsoft automates Wi-Fi network setup
T-Mobile plans to use the new service to bolster hot spot security
Story by Bob Brewin
OCTOBER 13, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Microsoft Corp. plans to add Wireless Provisioning Services (WPS) to its Windows XP clients and Windows Server 2003, a change designed to make it easier for users to log onto Wi-Fi networks.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Watch, 10/13/03: Even More Windows Server 2003 Add-Ons In the Works
By Mary Jo Foley
Customers won't have to wait for Longhorn Server for a growing number of new servers and services.
Microsoft isn't waiting for Longhorn Server to provide customers with new Windows server technologies. It is growing continually the list of services and servers designed to be layered on top of Windows Server 2003.
"We can't wait till next release to add value," acknowledged Microsoft senior VP Paul Flessner at last week's worldwide partner conference in New Orleans. Company executives have talked up for a while now several of these servers/services in the works, including Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), Automated Deployment Services (ADS), Windows SharePoint Services, Windows Rights Management Services and Group Policy Management Console.
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Collaborative Technologies
eWeek, 10/13/03: Morphing Blogs to Business
By Darryl K. Taft
Industry veteran Allaire's plan would simplify syndication.
A new way of exchanging data on the Internet has been hatched by one of the industry's veteran luminaries that could push blogging into the realm of "business data exchange."
Jeremy Allaire, technologist in residence at General Catalyst Partners LLC, in Cambridge, Mass., and former chief technology officer at Macromedia Inc., has drafted a proposal for what he calls RSS-Data, which enables rich data to be added in RSS (Resource Description Framework Site Summary) feeds.
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Optimism
C|net, 10/13/03: Report: Pockets opening for IT
By Ed Frauenheim
The information technology spending climate is looking sunnier, according to a report published Monday by investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston.
The report involved a survey of chief information officers from Fortune 1000 companies "or equivalents." "The survey depicts a favorable capital spending trend on technology infrastructure as we enter 2004," CSFB wrote.
CSFB found that 47 percent of chief information officers project at least a moderate spending increase in 2004, while 36 percent expect to hold capital spending flat. Only 17 percent of respondents believe that their capital budgets will be reduced in 2004, down from a third of participants during 2003, according to the report.
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