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Its good to be the rebel when youre surrounded by the old guard. And thats never more important than when you are in the customer relationship management market. Its a feeling Jay Wood is very familiar with. As CEO and chairman of Kana Communications, Wood spends most of his time convincing the public Kana is […]

21. Brocade CommunicationsStorage area networking Brocade has woven a strong revenue stream from its SilkWorm storage products, posting a 336 percent increase to $451 million in 2000 and sustaining the trend in 2001s first half. Brocade and five competitors plan to standardize the way data traffic moves among their gear to speed deployment of storage […]

6. Critical PathOutsource communications services Critical path soared in 2000, outsourcing communications services for enterprises. But senior managers left after financial results were restated because of accounting irregularities, and demand for high-tech services has slowed. The company hopes to revive momentum this year, boosting its profits by laying off 43 percent of its work force. […]

The fastest-growing electronic commerce company rode the wave of interest in public e-marketplaces last year, cresting at $401 million revenue, an increase of almost 1,100 percent for the year. The surge was strong enough to carry Commerce One, led by Chairman and CEO Mark B. Hoffman, into the undisputed lead in powering public marketplaces earlier […]

If service providers dont move faster to prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks, hackers and script kiddies can grab their suntan lotion and head for the beach this summer because there will still be ample opportunity to bring sites to a screeching halt once the season is over. To an I-manager, a DDOS attack — a flood […]

Experts advise the following before signing over your secure operations to a managed security service provider (MSSP): • Get a clue. Before you start thinking about whos going to be managing your security, decide what theyre going to be managing. Your firewall, intrusion detection, virtual private network, anti-virus, e-mail scanning and authentication are all pieces […]

Companies are increasingly turning over the keys to their e-businesses to security professionals, who often lack the expertise or personnel to operate them safely. Hiring security providers to protect corporate networks and the critical data those networks contain is a growing trend, but the companies providing such services are unregulated and not subject to industry […]

Who knew that managing passwords could be so unbelievably expensive? Boeing did. The aerospace company recently estimated it was spending millions of dollars a year — Boeing would not provide an exact number — in support costs and lost productivity because of password management tasks. Boeing provides intranet access to 150,000 employees, many of whom […]

A leading open source developer, Miguel de Icaza, said he will launch an open source project to create a platform-neutral version of the upcoming Microsoft .Net development environment. The move indicates early support for the .Net architecture from an unexpected source. And if de Icaza, the lead developer of the Linux/Gnome user interface, wins many […]

The Federal Communications Commission was twice smacked hard in the face: first when an appeals court overturned the panels decision to take back and reauction NextWave Telecoms wireless licenses and then again when the U.S. Supreme Court said it wouldnt consider the FCCs plan to repo bankrupt Metro PCS licenses. But the FCC was due […]