John Moore

NSI Software (www.nsisoftware.com), a replication vendor, is seeking to build a partner base of 50 to 70 companies over the next nine months. The move comes as the company, which currently has fewer than 20 partners, enters the network attached storage (NAS) market. NSI Software introduced Monday an NAS-version of its Double-Take replication product. In […]

Lockheed Martin Technology Services Friday announced an agreement to acquire the outstanding stock of federal integrator OAO Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OAO, based in Greenbelt, Md., employs more than 2,000 people and generated more than $200 million in revenue in 2000. Lockheed Martin Technology Services plans to combine one of its […]

Global integrators such as Accenture as well as smaller e-business architects such as Novo Corp. are among the services companies backing BEA Systems recently unveiled portal initiative. BEAs portal push includes the launch Monday of WebLogic Portal 4.0 and WebLogic Integration 2.1. The company also established a BEA Portal Star Solution program for software vendors […]

EYT (www.eyt.com) Wednesday took the wraps off its IBM TotalStorage Solution Center, one of 120 IBM storage solution facilities focusing on networked storage. The center provides testing, design, education and training among other services. Customer can model, demo, and benchmark various storage applications and architectures, according to EYT. “Customers need to kick the tires,” says […]

The potential union of voice and data communications has spawned an array of technologies: interactive voice response systems, unified messaging, IP telephony and the like. But the skills sets needed to sell, install and support such solutions havent come together as quickly as the melding technologies. Plenty of telecom consultants dont know how to “speak […]

The war against terrorism and the shaky economy have given Congress a whole new agenda. From the information technology perspective, issues that were at the top of the list earlier this year have been set aside or recast in a different light. Take online privacy. Early this year, privacy ranked among the leading IT initiatives. […]

In the halcyon days of yore, integrators had so much walk-in business that they actually shunned requests for proposals (RFPs). The stream of prospects seemed endless; companies could pick and choose their customers. So much for the golden age of e-business. Today, the crowds of dot-com enterprises and brick-and-mortar Web wannabes have dispersed. New project […]

Names: Al Decker and Rebecca Whitener Claim to Fame: The duo behind EDS security practice Web Info: www.eds.com The challenge of a business launch is nothing new for Al Decker and Rebecca Whitener. The duo helped establish IBM Global Services security and privacy practice in 1998 and two years later founded their own consulting firm. […]

Tech Data Corp. (www.techdata.com) this week launched a program with Transamerica Distribution Finance (www.transamericafinance.com/tdf) that lets resellers compete for larger government contracts. According to Tech Data, many resellers have difficulty securing large financing to bid for government contracts. Under Tech Datas financing program for federal resellers, a solutions provider that wins a contract submits job […]

Accenture next week plans to demonstrate its first application prototype built upon Microsoft Corp. .Net My Services. The prototype will be unveiled at the Microsoft Developers Conference, October 22-26, in Los Angeles. The Accenture application, called Dynamic Delivery, is designed for the package delivery industry. The prototype uses .Net My Services utilities including .Net Presence, […]