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By Craig McGuire Major IT outsourcing contracts are showing no signs of letting up as the final quarter in a busy year for outsourcing contracts draws to a close. Two top providers of IT outsourcing services, Computer Sciences Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Corp. , have announced major deals, worth over $1 billion and $300 […]

By Sean Kerner A device combining a cell phone with a digital assistant and other portable devices is not a high priority for consumers, according to a new report from Jupiter Research. The report says 53 percent of consumers polled carry more than one portable device and they are content to continue to do so. […]

By Sean Michael Kerner The market for storage software will post positive year-over-year performance for 2003 on the strength of 4.2 percent sequential growth in the third quarter of 2003, according to market research firm IDC. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, which recently released third quarter figures for the disk-based storage market, expects storage software revenues of […]

By Michael Floyd Hoping to entice enterprise customers who may be looking to leverage the value of open source software, data recovery and backup company BakBone Software is spearheading an initiative to spread more Linux distributions in the enterprise market. Known as Linux Advantage, the new initiative lays out an agreement between a limited number […]

By Sean Michael Kerner IBM and wireless scanner device company Symbol Technologies are rolling out a line of services and products involving newly integrated and security-enhanced hand-held wireless and scanning devices for enterprise customers. The latest joint offering, which pools their respective software, services and hardware in the pervasive mobile computing sector, is an extension […]

By Craig McGuire Behind the scenes of the daily hustle and bustle of production at Newsday, a new back-end integration system is keeping track of all the moving parts for the daily newspaper’s business divisions. The project, which integrated the newspaper’s legacy mainframe with new reporting systems for its business processes, is part of a […]

Enterprise Storage Snapshots offers a weekly wrap-up of what’s going on in the storage industry. Here are our storage news highlights for the second week of December: VERITAS ramps up its Storage Foundation software with support for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Storage Server 2003 technologies, Xyratex launches a new Fibre Channel to SATA RAID […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Looking to advance their on demand computing strategies, IBM and Akamai Technologies on Thursday released the EdgeComputing Toolkit for Websphere Studio. The offering streamlines deployment of Java 2 Enterprise Edition Web applications built on IBM’s WebSphere software across Akamai’s global computing platform. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM is offering up a beta trial […]

By Sean Michael Kerner In October, The Liberty Alliance announced its new standards-based certification program to spur the adoption of Web services . Less than two months later, nine companies have earned the group’s interoperable logo — proof that their products and services adhere to common architecture for user ID management. The consortium announced the […]

By Alice Hill As more and more dial-up ISP customers flee to an always-on broadband connection, the move is not always as welcoming as it sounds. After all, once they get to the high-speed online world, former dial-up users often find themselves missing many extras that dial-up ISPs such as AOL offered. For example, multiple […]

By Craig McGuire Technology decision-makers may loosen their purse strings a bit in 2004, but they will also expect much more for their IT monies. That is according to several industry analysts who say the free-spending late 1990s are gone for good. Specifically, IT capital spending budgets will begin to grow again at a modest […]

Software development is not only about coding. It’s architecture, specification, design, metrics, performance, etc. Outsourcing all of those skills will lead to loosing touch with reality. To understand the discipline and the process a good manager should deal with the above development components on regular basis and locally. — Alex Greysukh, Boston, Masschusetts Outsourcing in […]