CenterBeam
CNBC “Business Center, 12/3/04: “IT Recovery?”
In a story about the possible recovery in IT spending, IT Outsourcing was highlighted as a specific market area that show strong growth and CenterBeam was singled out as an example of this strong growth. CenterBeam CFO Keith Roberts, told CNBC that the company is experiencing a “surge in demand,” for it’s outsourced IT management service. When asked if the overall increase in IT revenue this quarter is enough to prove a recovery is underway, Roberts said on the air that it will take several quarters of growth to prove that a recovery is happening.
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Security
Computerworld, 12/3/03: Yahoo Instant Messenger contains security flaw
Attackers could run their own code on computers using the program, researchers say
Story by Paul Roberts
DECEMBER 03, 2003 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - Security researchers are warning of a security hole in Yahoo Inc.'s Messenger that could allow attackers to run their own code on computers using the instant messaging program.
The buffer overrun vulnerability was discovered by researcher Tri Huynh in a file named "yauto.dll," which is an ActiveX component of Yahoo Messenger software versions up to 5.6.0.1347, according to a security alert released today by Secunia Ltd. in Copenhagen.
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Computerworld, 12/3/03: Cisco exec: Wi-Fi is ready for the enterprise
Security flaws and deployment issues have been resolved, he said
Story by Joris Evers
DECEMBER 03, 2003 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - Consumers have been quicker to adopt wireless LANs than enterprises have, but the problems holding back corporate adoption have been solved, clearing the way for businesses to hop on the WLAN train, a Cisco Systems Inc. executive said today.
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C|net, 12/4/03: Cisco airs out Wi-Fi vulnerability
By Matthew Broersma
Cisco Systems is warning of a vulnerability in some of its Aironet Wi-Fi access points that could allow attackers to snoop on corporate networks.
Vulnerable access points transmit security keys over the air in unencrypted text, meaning that an eavesdropper could intercept them. With the keys, an attacker could easily break the encryption protecting Wi-Fi transmissions. Wi-Fi is a wireless standard commonly used in corporate and personal local-area networks.
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The Register, 12/3/03: Heavy squalls of blended worms to hit next year
By John Leyden
Net users can expect a growth in attacks of Unix systems next year, not to mention more Blaster-style worms capable of infecting computers without using email.
The growing trend of virus writers and spammers apparently working together (evidenced by worms like Sobig and Mimail) can also be expected to continue into 2004, according to security firm Sophos, which predict little let up in mass-mailing viruses next year.
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XMLMania.com, 12/3/03: XML Firewall -- Without the application coding
XML Web services have been heavily prototyped in recent years, and some are ready to deploy. But new security concerns must be hurdled, and developers can't help but complain if they are sent back to the drawing board once more.
Poised as a solution is an XML Firewall from Reactivity. "One of the things we're running into is project teams that have been building a set of services for deployment at a future date," said Reactivity CEO Glenn Osaka. "And now what's happened is that they're ready to switch on and the security infrastructure people aren't ready."
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IT Management
Fast Company, December 03: Technology Doesn't Matter-- but Only at Harvard
Does IT matter anymore? When it comes to innovation, it's more relevant than ever.
You'd have to be on another planet not to have heard about the provocative debate stirred by independent business writer and former Harvard Business Review editor Nicholas Carr. Earlier this year, he got under the skin of many technology professionals by claiming that information technology is no longer critical to future growth. His argument, in the Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter," was that information technology has become so ubiquitous, it's now a commodity. His advice to chief information and technology officers: "Spend less" on IT; "follow, don't lead;" and "focus on vulnerabilities, not opportunities."
Carr's opinion is an intellectual exercise based on the theory that scarcity--not ubiquity--makes a business resource strategic. Unfortunately, this argument ignores the real world. IT continues to open up new opportunities to compete, and it will continue to do so for some time to come. I enjoy an honest debate as much as anyone but not when it ends with advice that's dangerous to corporate health. In fact, IT's ubiquity makes it even more necessary than ever. The technotransformations of the 1990s only hint at how the Internet will continue to revolutionize business process change.
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Utility Computing
Internetnews.com, 12/4/03: HP 'Virtualizes' Whirled PCs
By Michael Singer
Focusing on the virtualization of data center resources, Hewlett-Packard (Quote, Chart) Thursday announced new services and software designed to bolster its Adaptive Enterprise strategy.
The rollout includes extended pay-per-use capabilities, expanded IT utility offerings and a new desktop Blade PC. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker is locked in a race with rivals IBM, Sun Microsystems and others to turn computing resources into a commodity that can be metered and sold to customers similar to the way they get electricity or water.
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Otherwise
C|net, 12/4/03: A dual digital life
By John Borland
On paper, Olaf Olafsson sounds like a character straight out of a novel: He's a top technology executive for media mogul Time Warner, a positron physicist by training and, in his spare time, a best-selling novelist in his native Iceland.
Olafsson is making waves on two fronts. After temporarily leaving Time Warner, after its merger with America Online, he returned earlier this year as an executive vice president for technology strategy. He's the one who evaluates strategic relationships with companies like Microsoft. He's also the executive who helps guide the company's ongoing transformation from a cable TV and content company to a digital entertainment provider.
Olafsson also recently published his third novel, "Walking into the Night," a melancholy story about an Icelandic businessman who walks out on his family and career, and takes a bit role in American mythology, as a butler for William Randolph Hearst.
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