Outsourcing
Giga, 9/26/03: Should You Outsource Your E-Mail Infrastructure?
William Martorelli and Jonathan Penn
Are organizations taking a renewed look at e-mail outsourcing?
If the recent pattern of inquiries from Giga clients is any indication, after a lull of several years, e-mail outsourcing appears poised to make a comeback. A growing number of inquiries from both suppliers and customers suggest that e-outsourcing of e-mail infrastructure and related collaboration is on the rise.
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Utility Computing
Giga, 9/26/03: Activities of the Major Suppliers of Utility-Based Services
William Martorelli
What are the major categories of utility-like services and what are the major suppliers doing?
Sun’s recent alliance with Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for utility-like services based on Sun’s N1 infrastructure platform underscores that the utility concept in a services context continues to seek traction in the marketplace. Although adoption of utility-based services is only beginning and is still opportunistic, many service suppliers are asking whether they themselves need an offering in this space. As is true generally, the description of service offerings as utility platforms can cause unnecessary confusion. Services remain a significant vector of adoption for utility-like (“organic”) architectural concepts, but service suppliers must offer clarity in their service offerings if they are to achieve success in the marketplace.
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Internetnews.com, 10/14/03: EDS, Opsware Launch Utility Computing Language
By Clint Boulton
EDS and Opsware have teamed together on a data center language standard to reel in utility computing. More than 20 vendors have pledged support for the initiative, which was first reported by internetnews.com.
IT services provider EDS and data center automation software maker Opsware launched the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) to reduce the complexity of data center environments, where several layers of computing exist.
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Infoworld, 10/14/03: Interview: Andreessen sees DCML taking off
Opsware chairman talks about the future prospects for proposed utility computing standard
By Ed Scannell
Opsware Chairman Marc Andreessen has never shied away from the bleeding edge. The creator of Netscape, which was one of the fundamental drivers that helped popularize the Internet, Andreessen has consistently pushed toward that edge and suffered some cuts and bruises but never a critical amount of blood loss.
At Opsware he oversees the company's aggressive efforts to forge the concepts of automating the complete IT life cycle of large companies, including provisioning, deploying, changing, and scaling, and consolidating servers and business applications as a way of lowering IT costs. With Tuesday's announcement, Opsware is attempting to extend the envelope proposing the new Data Center Markup Language [DCML] and the DCML Organization that will serve as a foundation on which users can build interoperable applications in hopes of making utility and grid computing into practical realities.
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Security
Computerworld, 10/14/03: Gore: Intrusive technology may make us less secure
Story by Sumner Lemon
OCTOBER 14, 2003 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - The relentless drive for more intrusive technology to help improve security may result in a society that is less secure, former Vice President Al Gore warned today at the Carnahan Conference on Security Technology in Taipei.
Advances in technology allow governments to track the activities of individuals more closely and collect greater amounts of information than ever before, Gore said. But greater access to information does not automatically result in greater security, he said.
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Microsoft
The Register, 10/15/03: Bill Gates: 'Longhorn is going to be late'
By Jan Libbenga
Bill Gates yesterday confirmed that there is no official release date yet for the next version of Windows, named Longhorn. "Longhorn could be 2005 or 2006," Gates told a small group of journalists yesterday at the TechNet/MSDN seminar in The Hague. "This release is going to be driven by technology, not by a release date. Which probably means it is going to be late."
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