Monthly Archives: September 2001
SBC Communications – 2
Perhaps youll want to razz SBC Communications CEO Edward Whitacre from a distance, or maybe anonymously from the crowd: He has a penchant for...
Put E-Mail Servers on Security Checklist
Any system exposed to the Internet is subject to attack at any time. Most IT managers employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to guard...
Coradiants Pitch: You Outsourced Too Much
Born out of the Canadian infrastructure consultancy Networkshop, Coradiant is one of the few freestanding managed service providers that seem to have weathered the...
MSPs in Transition
Its no surprise that the crisis slowly engulfing managed service providers is barely evident. MSPs lack the cachet of dot-coms and the sex appeal...
Customer Opportunity Lost as Xuma Collapses
The greater responsibility that managed service providers take on - and charge top dollar for - backfires tenfold on those customers that have to...
Big Brother Gets New Tools
Enterprises worried about employee abuse of corporate e-mail have some new tools at their disposal.MicroData Software Inc. next week will release the newest version...
Moving Voice DSL to Small Biz
This week 3Com Corp. will roll out a series of routers and gateways to make it easier and faster for carriers to deploy voice-over-DSL...
FCC
The Federal Communications Commission has single-handedly turned government spectrum auctions into a soupy quagmire. It all started with the entrepreneurs spectrum auction in 1996...
Linux Gains Respect
On the same day that Compaq Computer said Linux still has a long way to go, rival IBM said: On our servers, its good...
Share That Content With Your Neighbor
You click. You wait. And still, maddeningly, the Victorias Secret fashion show refuses to play.Soon, though, using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to distribute content, we...