Recent Articles
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Reconstructing IT for 40,000 Mortgage Brokers
As mortgage rates sank to an all-time low last year, 11-year-old Accredited Home Lenders Inc., which services an aggregate customer base of about 40,000 mortgage brokers, found itself a victim of its own success. The unprecedented expansion the company was experiencing revealed a rickety technical foundation—one riddled with unreliable point-to-point interfaces, a heavy reliance on…
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Securing WLANs for SMB
Securing the wireless networks of growing small and midsize businesses is the focus of several top providers such as Symbol Technologies Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., each of which is readying security upgrades and features. Symbol Technologies plans to release this week its WS 2000, a switch that’s designed for offices and that works in…
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Cisco Partner Summit 2004 News Center
More than 1,500 Cisco certified channel partners from around the world gathered in Honolulu this week to attend Cisco’s invitation-only Partner Summit. The theme of this year’s summit, which opened Wednesday with CEO John Chambers’ keynote address, is Improving Channel Partner Profitability to Drive Mutual Success. New Cisco Partner Program Targets Vertical Markets Cisco Sweetens…
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Sun Scales Up Blade System
IT managers looking for a well-managed, high-density server blade system to host Linux or Solaris applications should consider the latest blade system offered by Sun Microsystems Inc., the Sun Fire B1600 Blade Platform. IT managers looking for a well-managed, high-density server blade system to host Linux or Solaris applications should consider the latest blade system…
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Salesforce.Com Easier to Use
Salesforce.com Inc. has improved on its well-designed hosted customer relationship management application through a number of new features that make information more accessible and useful. Salesforce.com Inc. has improved on its well-designed hosted customer relationship management application through a number of new features that make information more accessible and useful. Updated in December, the enterprise…
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RFID: Hit or Myth?
Procter & Gamble markets some of the biggest brands in store aisles across the country, from Crest toothpaste to Pantene shampoo to Charmin toilet paper. To date, the company hasn’t begun to figure out the physics—or the business case—of radio waves and how they can help move its products more efficiently to retail outlets. But…
