MSPs (managed service providers) are tempting customers to consider hosted storage management as a way to jump start the utilisation of a glut of underused storage equipment and navigate complex storage environments, according to industry analysts.
The MSP (managed services provider) market was buzzing with activity on Monday as Loudcloud, Cervalis, and Inforonics introduced new services designed to complement growing customer satisfaction demands.
IBM Global Services, considered by some analysts to be a sleeping giant among the struggling managed hosting services provider market, announced a set of 30 new service offerings for its Web-hosting customers this week.
Introducing a set of offerings built to remove Web services deployment and infrastructure hurdles for enterprises and Web hosters, Sun Microsystems and Nortel Networks launched their co-developed Rapid Start Web Solutions on Wednesday.
Access management issues were the focus of a pair announcements yesterday, one by Waveset Technologies and another by BMC Software and Securant Technologies.
Hewlett-Packard and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are pooling their resources to construct an Aviation Solution Center that will provide new products and services to a global airline industry badly in need of an IT facelift.
Backed by some very diverse names, Netegrity has announced its plans to develop an XML-based standard to secure e-commerce transactions.
In an effort to equip aspiring application service providers (ASPs) with what they need to compete in the crowded ASP market, Computer Asso-ciates International's (CA) applications division interBiz has launched its Online Group at NetWorld+Interop 2000.
Looking to be a nimble player in the fast-moving application service (ASP) market, Ernst & Young Technologies last week renamed itself EYT and spun-off from Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LCC to offer application services for mid-sized companies.
In just a few months the management service provider (MSP) market has made the transition from latest industry buzzword to legitimate player in the services delivery landscape.
Two announcements made last week at the HP OpenView 2000 Conference are designed to bring the HP OpenView enterprise and systems management product suite to a whole new set of network administrators.
In a rare mea culpa, Microsoft admitted during May that vulnerabilities in its Outlook e-mail program helped propagate the damaging "I LOVE YOU" worm. This prompted the software giant to release a free security upgrade to protect users from opening and further spreading viruses.
After a number of recent denial of service (DoS) attacks on high-profile Web sites, network management vendors are bolstering their management platforms to ward off - and effectively react to - network hacks.
Taking a strong leap forward in the growing industry of multi-protocol processing chip prod-uction, Lucent Technologies has ann-ounced it will purchase Agere, a maker of programmable network processor chips, in a deal worth approximately $US415 million.
Network Associates (NAI) at the RSA Conference in San Jose, California will next week announce plans to splinter off some of its security divisions, including McAfee Virus Defense, Sniffer Technologies, PGP Security, and Magic Solutions, into independent business units, each equipped with its own president.
