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SAN FRANCISCO–IBM Monday here at PartnerWorld launched a series of partner initiatives along with a new low-end zSeries mainframe targeted at channel customers. The IBM eServer zSeries 800 mainframe is designed to provide server consolidation for midmarket customers who deal primarily with IBM channel partners. IBM plans to distribute 70 percent to 80 percent of […]

After learning the hard way last year that the small and midsize business market was not yet ready for integrated monitoring services from MSPs, SilverBack Technologies Inc. went back to the drawing board and revamped its business. Next month, the Billerica, Mass., company will relaunch itself as a management infrastructure provider for regional services and […]

Watchfire Corp. last week released a revamped, consolidated platform for analyzing Web site content for quality issues. The WebXM platform pulls together previously separate modules to combine content integrity analysis, traffic analysis, privacy policy adherence checking and Web content asset management within a single product. Watchfire, with its WebXM framework, sits between site performance measurement […]

Enron Corp. has brought to light an issue that most organizations outside the financial services arena dont give much thought to: How do you quickly retrieve key e-mail messages or other electronic correspondence when litigation requires it. One IT services company meeting the digital archiving and retrieval requirements of financial services firms in the event […]

Startup Altaworks Corp. hopes to become the tools provider to go to for in-depth monitoring and management of BEA Systems Inc.s WebLogic and IBMs Websphere Web application servers. The Nashua, N.H., company earlier this week took the wraps off its Panorama tool, which monitors live Web transactions and includes patent-pending root cause analysis capabilities to […]

Electronic Data Systems Corp. is quietly overhauling its Information Solutions organization to boost a key metric used by Wall Street to measure consulting performance: revenue per employee. By the end of next month, as part of the restructuring of the outsourcing organization, EDS plans to move the majority of its Global Delivery desk-side support employees […]

Watchfire Corp. on Monday will release a revamped, consolidated platform for analyzing Web site content for quality issues. The WebXM platform pulls together previously separate modules to combine content integrity analysis, traffic analysis, privacy policy adherence checking and Web content asset management within a single product. Watchfire with its WebXM framework sits in a unique […]

Electronic Data Systems Corp. Thursday announced that it beat its fourth-quarter earnings per share for 2000 by 16 percent at 81 cents a share, and it beat its full-year earnings per share by 17 percent at $2.68 cents a share. The Plano, Texas, services behemoth also reported record revenues for its fourth quarter of 2001 […]

ASP services aggregator Jamcracker Inc. next week will launch the next generation of its applications platform for mid-market subscription services and will make its first foray into selling the platform as a product. Jamcracker Enterprise 3, a Web-based services platform based on XML, now addresses enterprises looking to deploy portal projects as well as service […]

Network management provider Micromuse Inc. last week announced plans to launch a security management initiative that will leverage the scalability of its Netcool event handler to centralize security management. As part of the initiative, Micromuse is creating a bundle of its existing Netcool tools that are customized for security management. It is also creating alliances […]