Managed Services & Outsourcing

When you ask telecom executives how they plan to shore up their companies' sagging bottom lines, the answer is consistent: managed services.

The main driving force behind IT industry heavyweights

Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) is unveiling Wednesday a service to manage the deployment of Microsoft Corp. desktop applications and system software in companies and government agencies.

Despite last week

Hewlett-Packard Co. is readying server management software that should give users control of Unix, Linux and Windows machines from a single console, a capability analysts say will be particularly important as businesses consolidate workloads to boost efficiencies in their data centers.

A big part of my job is translating between IT professionals, vendors and venture capitalists. It isn't as easy as it sounds because they often use the same words to mean different things.

In an effort to ensure interoperability on how software providers and developers create products from Web services, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday the general availability of the basic profile 1.0.

Security experts on Monday warned of the first self-propagating virus to take advantage of a widespread vulnerability reported last month in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems.