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Managed Security: Big Business, Big Risk
Security has become one of the biggest ongoing business opportunities in the channel, one that becomes even bigger every time the confidential data of some large company is breached from outside. A mid-June breach break-in to the computer network of credit-card processor CardSystems Solutions, for example, set off a week of worry and discussion among…
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Sun Open-Sources More J2EE Tech
Sun will release this week components of its Java Enterprise System technology stack to the open-source community under the Community Development and Distribution License. To be released are Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Enterprise Service Bus implementations, based on the community’s Java Business Integration specification, and its Java Systems Application Server. These moves, which will be announced…
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Four Ways to Make Virtual Teams Work
Virtual teams—divided by distance but connected by electronic means of communication and a need to work in a coordinated way—often break down because of poor communication. That’s not surprising, considering that global teams are often composed of people who don’t share the same first language. Karen Sobel Lojeski, the program director for the business and…
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SCO OpenServer 6 Pushes Unix Line Forward
After years in the making, SCO OpenServer 6 has finally been released. OpenServer 6 is the first major upgrade to SCO’s flagship Unix operating system since its parent companies, Caldera and Santa Cruz Operations, merged in 2000. From an analyst’s viewpoint, Dan Kusnetzky, IDC’s vice president of System Software, said, “As the flag-bearer of the…
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Shuttle ST20G5 Socket 939 XPC
Shuttle, the company that pioneered the small, cube-shaped small-form-factor for the PC, offers two main families of products: The G series and the P series. The P series chasses are the big brothers, relatively speaking, offering slightly more internal room (though no extra expansion slots). P series members, such as Shuttle’s SN25P, bring smart styling…
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New 10 Gigabit Ethernet Products Bring HPC to the Enterprise
Vendors are expanding on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet offerings available to customers. Myricom Inc. and startup Level 5 Networks Inc. on Monday are both introducing new offerings designed to bring the high-speed interconnect into the data center and high-performance computing environments. In addition, Neterion Inc., which makes 10GbE adapters, earlier this month unveiled a channel…
