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Globalstar Expands Mobile Satellite Services (Sep 2000)
In February 2000, Globalstar USA launched its mobile satellite service in the United States, providing seamless voice service coast to coast with international roaming capabilities. A rollout of commercial Globalstar services began at the end of 1999, and it is anticipated that completion of the basic network rollout will be achieved by the first quarter of 2001, at which point Globalstar service will be available in over 120 countries served by 38 gateways.
March, 2002
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Compaq Software and Hardware Highlights for 2000 (Aug 2000)
In June 2000 Compaq presented a strategy statement for OpenVMS. Central to the strategy is the release of new OpenVMS functionality every 12 to 18 months, support for all AlphaServers, and the integration of solutions with Windows NT, Tru64 UNIX, and StorageWorks. In addition Compaq pledged to enhance ultra high availability, scalability, security, and performance including support for Fastpath for SCSI and Fibre Channel, reduction in RMS locking, lock manager performance enhancements, and Extended File Cache (XFC).
March, 2002
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IBM Fights to Recover PC Server Market Losses
The drop in IBM's server revenues by more than 10 percent during 1999 caused CEO Lou Gerstner to name Samuel Palmisano to head a new server business entity. Palmisano is viewed by many as a likely successor to Gerstner, so this move signifies how serious IBM is about battling to regain its lost market share. IBM is in third position in the server market and is challenged by Compaq, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard. IBM is revitalizing every aspect of its server business in order to turn the situation around.
March, 2002
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DSL Can Payoff in Enterprise Applications
Digital subscriber line (DSL) is the phone company's answer to low cost, wide bandwidth communications channels. Challenging DSL are the cable companies, which offer cable modems. From a business standpoint, the matter certainly tilts in favor of DSL, although few companies have yet taken the plunge. This analysis looks at the issues that confront an IT manager considering DSL installations and what tradeoffs need to be addressed.
March, 2002
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Biometric Security Moves Into the Real World
No system administrator wants to admit the vulnerability of IT systems protected merely by passwords. The need to protect valuable, proprietary information systems against unauthorized access is encouraging a number of organizations to introduce biometric security measures. This short report outlines six types of biometric security systems. (3 pp, 2 figs.)
March, 2002
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Storage Future Looks Attractive
As essential as storage is to IT, managers rarely find the topic exciting. New developments in the storage arena, however, may bring new respect to this often-neglected resource. Two dominant trends that will affect storage through 2002 are improved economies and networking. This short post outlines these trends as of the year 2000.
March, 2002
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Vendor Tactics Will Dictate Directory Services Future
Network directories hold the potential for saving organizations millions of dollars in managing their IT resources. The key to this management is directory services. Directory service vendors, however, have been much more interested in using directories to control their market share than in providing customers with the resources they need.
March, 2002
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Top 10 Teen Wired Cities in America (March 2002)
America Online announced the top 10 teen wired cities in America based on a national survey of more than 6,700 parents of teens and teens conducted by Digital Marketing Services. The results are based on the amount of time that teens, ages 12 to 17, spend online on a weekly basis and also reveals what teens do while they're online, including email, homework, instant message, listen to music, research current events, play games, and more.
March, 2002
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Change is the One Constant in the Database Market
Databases are more essential today than they ever were. The problems of database management, however, are growing exponentially. Data corruption, security, meta data, Y2K, Web compatibility, XML (Extensible Markup Language), and cross-platform operability are just a few of the challenges confronting those administering databases. Database vendors from the top tier to the bottom are confronting many of these issues and are developing applications to address them. These revisions, however, often add to the burden of database management.
March, 2002
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Software Pricing Innovations Can Cut Costs
The Internet is impacting software prices in ways that many buyers will find attractive. Consequently, vendors are being forced to rethink their traditional application software pricing structures. Software vendors are experiencing negative pressures to the commonly encountered price-per-CPU pricing structure they have used in charging customers in the past. At the same time, more flexible pricing strategies are being introduced. These pricing strategies are being driven less by the software vendors themselves than by application service providers (ASP) and fall-outs of court cases such as Microsoft's recent setback. As a result, software buyers have an opportunity to reduce their application server costs if they are sufficiently informed and wise in their decisions.
March, 2002
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Above Average(s): Measuring Application Development Performance
If I was in a room with the starting centers from every team in the NBA, I could say I was about 7 feet tall--based on the average of everyone present. Although misleading, this would be a true statement. IT organizations risk falling into a similar trap of misperception if they measure application development (AD) quality and productivity based on industry averages or high-level aggregates from myriad sources. Such an approach rarely provides meaningful insight into how well or poorly you're doing. More importantly, averages can't tell you what to do to improve your software development. To use measurement effectively, it's necessary to drill down to identify specific performance gaps and take specific actions toward improvement.
March, 2002
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Application Service Providers Can Provide Cost-Effective Outsourcing Solutions (Jul 2000)
The application service provider (ASP) market grows hotter every day as organizations find new ways to cut costs and increase returns on investment through creative outsourcing by means of these online services. The ASP model is based on the concept of letting someone else bring together the hardware, software, management, and staffing necessary to solve business problems. Increasingly, lenders and stockholders are looking askance at large in-house IT organizations, so creative managers are looking toward outsourcing as an alternative. And ASPs can often provide IT applications that are not suitable for traditional outsourcing.
March, 2002
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Compaq/Digital Shared Storage Overview (Aug 2000)
Shared storage provides an economical option for meeting the storage demands of multiple-host environments. Shared storage allows for more effective management of storage for a lower total cost because multiple-host storage needs can be consolidated into a few storage systems, resulting in fewer hardware components and fewer physical locations. Heterogeneous storage area networks go a step further by allowing the interconnection of multiple shared storage environments into a single network and enabling single point management of the storage environment. In addition, the consolidated storage becomes available to any host server, regardless of physical location.
March, 2002
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Turbulence Ahead in the ERP Market (Nov 2000)
The promises of the ERP revolution of a few years ago have too often been realized as expensive, bulky software coupled with painful rollouts and often wrenching organizational realignments. Consequently, ERP vendors are under the gun. Several have faced hard economic times along with rapid changeovers in the executive suites and disappointed customers. The major ERP suppliers are also facing a wakeup call from nimble e-commerce competitors such as Ariba, Clarify, Commerce One, I2 Technologies, and Siebel Systems to say nothing about their traditional adversaries, IBM and Microsoft. Application service providers are yet another threat to ERP providers' welfare.
March, 2002
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The Future of Pay Phones: Universal Communication Kiosks
As mobile technology users increasingly demand convenient connectivity, the face of mobile communications will change. Currently, the average mobile user must access multiple connections to listen to voice mail, make phone calls, and check and respond to email. Establishing each of these connections is a time-consuming process that the rushed mobile user will not tolerate when more convenient technology exists.
March, 2002
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