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Putting Magic back in Business?
As any muggle north of Hobbiton knows, "magic" is a hot property right now. Barnes and Noble sold over 1 million copies of the latest Harry Potter book in 48 hours, smashing all previous publishing records and firmly establishing the small boy from Privet Drive as more popular than Gandalf right now. As one executive from the New York bookstore commented, "Lord of the Rings is just so last year's magic."
Business executives take note. At least it is not only the IT vendors brand of magic that proves fickle and transitory.
Whilst HP and IBM vie over "who thought of it first," the rest of the IT suppliers have all rushed to attach their particular ...
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Conference Announcement
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UtilCompWorld 2004
23 - 24 March 2004 - New York
**Pre-Registration Discount Available NOW!**
The world's only business strategy conference for On Demand computing.
To REGISTER or for more information CLICK HERE
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Keeping the door locked tight: Utility Computing Security Concerns
As utility computing gathers momentum, with a reported 42% of major corporations considering a utility computing strategy, one nagging concern that users continue to highlight is that of security. Increased integration of company data with the pooled resources of others inevitably raises concern that security is unavoidably decreased.
Managing Director of CMG's Advanced Security Services, Richard Nethercott, says the loss of administrative control of company data and the increased liability introduced by outsiders acting as agents make for significant pitfalls in the utility computing model. To add to that, he warns that ...
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Global Series of Utility Computing Business Conferences Launched
UtilityComputing.com today announced the launch of UtilCompWorld, a global series of business conferences examining the On Demand computing strategy and it's true impact upon the bottom line of industry enterprises.
[2003/7/8 UC Newsdesk]
EDS extends the security of it's Storage-on-Demand range for PDAs and Desktops
EDS has announced a new service, Mobile Information Protection, aimed at the growing data protection concerns for an increasingly mobile workforce.
[2003/7/7 UC Newsdesk]
HP Looks to Boost Utility Computing Security with Identity Management Software
HP has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the SelectAccess software assets of Baltimore Technologies, a UK-based provider of high-trust security products. Following completion of the acquisition, the identity management technologies in SelectAccess will become part of HP's Adaptive Management software portfolio, aiming to provide more secure user access to network services and enterprise resources.
[2003/7/4 UC Newsdesk]
Microsoft claims security boost by coalition of industry support for Identity Integration Server
Microsoft has announced support from leading industry systems integrators (SIs), independent hardware vendors (IHVs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) for its Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS) and other identity management offerings. The company sees this as a strong element in their bid to help customers reduce cost, risk and complexity associated with managing end-user identities.
[2003/7/3 UC Newsdesk]
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Other Related News Around the Web
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BT expands IT services play with AmberPoint deal
Continuing a push to grow its IT services business, British Telecommunications (BT) has licensed software from AmberPoint to offer a service that's supposed to help corporations manage Web services deployed internally at their companies, BT announced Wednesday.
[2003/7/9 InfoWorld]
Deutsche Telekom, IBM team on video delivery system
German incumbent telephone company Deutsche Telekom has teamed with IBM to implement what they say is one of the world's largest digital media content hosting and delivery systems.
[2003/7/8 Network World]
HP to give software to grid developers
Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to release new open source software for configuring grid applications, the company's chief technology officer told attendees in a keynote presentation at the Global Grid Forum (GGF) in Seattle Thursday.
[2003/6/27 Computerworld]
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If your company has an interest in the Utility Computing market - you cannot afford to miss this! Providing industry decision makers with the information they need to understand the complex web of service providers who offer a Utility Computing service.
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Volume 01 Issue 10
A wake up call to the Enterprise Solutions giants... salesforce.com: A revolution in the software model?... Amazon.com and Carnival Cruise Lines to benefit from Utility Computing...
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Volume 01 Issue 09
Priorities for investment... SAIC's "Aggregator Model": New skills are key in a more flexible environment... Sun taking a thorough approach to Utility Computing...
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Volume 01 Issue 08
Changing the tune of the purchasing culture... Interview with Craig Sands, VP Services at Platform Computing... IBM Acquires Think Dynamics...
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Volume 01 Issue 07
IT industry in recession; Utility Computing offers growth but requires radical thinking... Ejasent aims to provide the backbone of Utility Computing...
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Volume 01 Issue 06
Interview with IBM's Dev Mukherjee... MIT Press chooses HP's Print-on-demand... General Dynamics Electric Boat to use IBM...
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