Outsourcing
Computerworld, 6/17/04: Secure outsourcing: An impossibility or a necessity?
Opinion by Jack Danahy, Ounce Labs Inc.
This political season has seen the term offshore outsourcing create as much controversy as WMD.
Concerns over the outflow of U.S. jobs to countries such as India, China, Malaysia, Israel and Ireland have made news in both the business and general press. Underlying the threat to U.S. jobs has been an increasing drumbeat of concern about the outflow of sensitive data and business process information that has followed those jobs.
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Gartner, 6/16/04: Management Update: Global Sourcing Scenario Yields Major Opportunities and Challenges
The collision of four competing forces will cause an evolution in the dynamics of the global delivery model, which will be significant for enterprises looking to use the global delivery model. The collision of four competing forces will cause an evolution in the dynamics of the global delivery model, which will be significant for enterprises looking to use the global delivery model.
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Security
Infoworld, 6/17/04: IBM to launch e-mail filtering managed service
Service uses a predictive technology designed to identify threats not yet defined
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service June 18, 2004
IBM Corp. is partnering with MessageLabs Ltd. to provide a managed e-mail security service that filters messages for viruses, spam, and inappropriate content before they reach a company's network and that uses a predictive technology designed to identify threats not yet defined.
The IBM offering, called E-mail Security Management Services, is based on an existing set of services from MessageLabs called MessageLabs Email Security System, said Michel Bobillier, global offering executive at IBM Global Services' Security and Privacy Services.
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Computerworld, 6/18/04: Microsoft on track to offer antivirus software
News Story by Reed Stevenson
Microsoft Corp. is still on track to offer an antivirus product that will compete against similar software offered by Symantec Corp. and Network Associates Inc. , the world's largest software maker said.
Mike Nash, chief of Microsoft's security business unit, said Microsoft is developing software to protect personal computers running Windows against malicious software, the worms and viruses that in recent years have plagued users with data loss, shutdowns and disruptions in Web traffic.
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IT Management
Computerworld, 6/17/04: CEOs urged to rethink corporate approach to IT
Corporate leaders should cultivate innovation at their companies
News Story by Laura Rohde
If CEOs don't want to be wiped out by their competitors, they not only have to invest in information technology but must also rethink how to deploy IT within their companies, a high-profile panel of IT executives told attendees of the Forbes CEO Forum in London today.
According to Andy Green, CEO for the Global Services division of BT Group PLC, the goal of a CEO should be to set up an IT system that will provide a company with real-time access to a single view of the customer.
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C|net, 6/18/04: Too late to rebuild IT?
By Charles Cooper
Now that Nicholas Carr--he of "IT Doesn't Matter" fame--has enjoyed his 15 minutes in the spotlight, Intel CEO Craig Barrett says the industry ought to get itself worked up over an issue that's really going to affect the future.
Just one problem: Few people seem to care.
"The U.S. has a whole series of complacencies about it," according to Barrett, who recently sat down for a wide-ranging interview with a team of CNET News.com editors and reporters.
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