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Business Process Outsourcing Grows Up
Things tend to mature rather rapidly in the IT sector, but business process outsourcing hasn’t been one of them. Business process outsourcing, or BPO, has been around since the mid-1990s. In a BPO engagement, an organization offloads responsibility for an IT-intensive business task to an external vendor. “Non-core” business functions such as payroll are considered…
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Microsoft to Rename XP Reduced Media Edition
Microsoft Corp. said it will come up with a new name for the unbundled version of Windows XP in time for the software’s retail delivery by the end of February, following criticism from the European Commission. The name “Windows XP Reduced Media Edition,” which the EC said would prejudice consumers against the software, was only…
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New Virus Attack Technique Bypasses Filters
Virus writers have once again gotten the drop on anti-virus vendors and IT administrators with a new technique that’s finding early and considerable success. Late last month, administrators and service providers began seeing virus-infected messages with a new type of attachment hitting their mail servers: an .rar archive. .Rar files are similar to .zip files…
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Wi-Fi Alliance to Promote WLAN Security
The Wi-Fi Alliance will use its pull in the industry to improve security measures in wireless LAN hardware over the next year. The Austin, Texas, trade organization, which confers the right to use the Wi-Fi label on hardware, plans to increase encryption requirements for certification. But members of the security task groups within the alliance…
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Tivoli Gains Steam With Candle Acquisition
IBM’s Tivoli brand has quietly built momentum in managing storage, security, distributed systems and mainframes, aided by last summer’s acquisition of Candle Corp. The move has resulted in a 25 percent revenue increase for Tivoli in IBM’s fourth fiscal quarter. eWEEK Senior Editor Paula Musich spoke recently with Tivoli General Manager Al Zollar about what’s…
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HP Adds Cisco Switch to Blades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is integrating a Gigabit Ethernet switch from Cisco Systems Inc. into its blade server architecture, a move company officials said will reduce the costs of running the blades and make it easier for users to blend them into their Cisco infrastructure. The two companies co-developed the Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module, which will…
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