NetFlash: Offshore use on the rise but savings lag

Opinion
Jul 21, 20052 mins

* Offshore use on the rise but savings lag * Microsoft to acquire FrontBridge for e-mail security * Security firm details unpatched Oracle flaws * Perna steps down as info manager at IBM * IBM to unveil network-attached storage arrays * Today on Layer 8

Do you think offshore outsourcing can cut your IT costs in half? You’re dreaming. A survey of 5,000 execs shows that savings aren’t nearly that high. Offshore use on the rise but savings lag http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072505-offshore.html?net&story=072505-offshore

Do you think offshore outsourcing can cut your IT costs in half? You’re dreaming. A survey of 5,000 execs shows that savings aren’t nearly that high.

Offshore use on the rise but savings lag

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072505-offshore.html?net&story=072505-offshore

Microsoft to acquire FrontBridge for e-mail security

First Sybari Software, now FrontBridge. Microsoft is building a business for e-mail security through acquisitions, and at least one analyst is indicating there may be one more.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072005-frontbridge.html?net&story=072005-frontbridge

Security firm details unpatched Oracle flaws

A German security firm has published details of six security vulnerabilities in Oracle’s software, three of them high-risk, that it says were not fixed in an Oracle security update earlier this month.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072005-oracle-flaws.html?net&story=072005-oracle-flaws

Perna steps down as info manager at IBM

The head of IBM’s Information Management software unit, which makes and sells the high-profile DB2 database line of products, is bowing out next month.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072005-ibm-perna.html?net&story=072005-ibm-perna

IBM to unveil network-attached storage arrays

IBM is expected to announce next week the first of its re-branded network-attached storage appliances.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072005-ibm-storage.html?net&story=072005-ibm-storage

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