Outsourcing
Gartner, 7/9/04: Vendor Rating: Getronics
This IT services vendor appears to have overcome its financial difficulties. Now it aims to build on its strengths in five industries and its partnerships with Cisco, Dell and Microsoft. But progress won’t come easily.
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Offshoring
Gartner, 7/8/04: Currency, Competition, IT Focus Shift Impact
The weakening U.S. dollar, strengthening competition in global outsourcing and a major shift of IT focus from operations cost control to alignment of IT with business are influencing growth rates for IT management and process management services in the latest Gartner Dataquest forecast. The complete IT management and process management forecasts are available in a downloadable database at gartner.com's MarketView 2.0.
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Network Management
C|net, 7/12/04: Cisco-backed start-up launches new tool
By Marguerite Reardon
An Irish start-up funded by networking giant Cisco Systems says it has developed a network-monitoring tool that will take the guesswork out of planning for voice and video services on an Internet Protocol network.
On Monday, Dublin-based Corvil announced CorvilNet 1.1, software that monitors IP networks to help network managers assess how much bandwidth is needed to run specific applications, like voice over IP and IP video. In doing so, Corvil is aiming to help large companies and service providers, who have struggled for years to find a balance between allocating too much bandwidth capacity and not enough capacity to support all their networking needs.
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Software Configuration Management
Gartner, 7/7/04: Market Share: Software Change and Configuration Management, Worldwide, 2003
Combined, IBM/Rational was the market share leader in 2002 and 2003, growing at 18 percent year over year. IBM/Rational holds an 11 percent lead over its closest competitor, Computer Associates.
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Security
Computerworld, 7/12/04: Worm Wars
Companies are throwing up layers of protection as new worms and viruses appear at an ever-quickening pace.
News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan
JULY 12, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Christofer Hoff is taking no chances when it comes to protecting his organization against worms and viruses. As the director of enterprise security services at Western Corporate Federal Credit Union (WesCorp), Hoff has put in place a multilayered architecture designed to set as many barriers as possible between the bad guys and his data.
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Computerworld, 7/12/04: Four Steps to a Secure Budget
A seasoned security manager offers hard-nosed advice on how to get critical IT security projects funded.
Security Manager's Journal by Roger Foix
JULY 12, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - After working as an in-house security manager in the financial services industry for many years, I recently moved to consulting work. This will give me the opportunity to work in a variety of industries (my current contract is with a company in the health care industry) and projects.
I've spent the past few days thinking about the many issues I face, trying to decide which one to discuss in this, my first column. In the end, it was an easy decision: extortion. I'm not talking about preventing employees or outsiders from stealing funds. I'm referring to my ability to "extort" appropriate funding from management.
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Wired, 7/12/04: A Gathering to Hack the System
NEW YORK -- An ominous drawing of a face sporting Hitler's moustache and a vampire's coif was emblazoned on the bright red banners that hung behind the speakers' podiums. Printed underneath the grim visage was a warning: "Big Brother Is Watching You."
The event was the fifth annual Hackers on Planet Earth gathering, held over the weekend, where attendees discussed computers, control, privacy and politics. But this wasn't an ordinary IT gathering. Entrance tickets were black armbands, which are perfect accessories for T-shirts emblazoned with statements like "Revolution Now," "Don't Whine, Vote," "Watch the Watchers" and "Hack the '04 Election!"
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Microsoft
Infoworld, 7/12/04: Microsoft to put online store on Start menu
Windows Marketplace site will be advertised in XP Start Menu and IE
By Joris Evers, IDG News Service July 12, 2004
TORONTO -- Microsoft Corp. is working on a new shopping Web site for software, hardware, and peripherals that it plans to advertise in the Windows XP Start Menu and the Internet Explorer Web browser.
Called "Windows Marketplace," the Web site is slated to go live for U.S. Windows users by year's end, according to Microsoft, which plans to officially announce the online store on Monday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
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