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Service Provider: An organization that provides some kind of communications service, storage service or processing service or any combination of the three. Examples are a local or long distance telephone company,...; Full Service Provider Definition >>

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HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service: Desktone, the desktop as a service DaaS provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard HP, which has signed on as the first member of Desktone's partner program for desktop virtualization technology. Desktone announced HP's involvement at the same time it unveiled its service provider...; Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Service Provider, Desktone, Virtual-D Platform, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Solving the Virtual World Interoperability Problem: Despite the popularity of SecondLife, there are in fact several such services on the market today. Enabling interoperabilty between There, Entropia Universe, Moove, Habbo Hotel, and Kaneva could go along way towards promoting the Virtual World industry. IBM researcher Ian Hughes' excellent post poses the question of what that...; Tags: Interoperability, IM, Presence, Stage, Service Provider, Cooperation, Standards, Adolescent, VIRTUAL WORLDS ARE ADOLESCENTS Virtual World Service, Business Services, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-02-20
GenieTown: Local services as local community: In a market where many of the global players have local listings for businesses and service providers, GenieTown is starting at the ground level and building up. The company, which made its public debut today, is a knowledge-sharing community built around person-to-person and small-business services providers in the Bay Area....; Tags: Community, Service Provider, GenieTown, Business Services, Benefits, Human Resources, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-02-20
Microsoft's software-plus-Yahoo! play: For a couple of years now, Microsoft has been talking up the notion of 'software-plus-services', which is its inelegant and self-serving way of saying that, although people are doing more and more on the Web, they're still going to have to buy software. The underlying purpose of this message is...; Tags: Software, Google Inc., Web, Yahoo! Inc., Service Provider, Microsoft Corp., Service, Tools & Techniques, Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Microsoft Media Accelerator v1.0: Microsoft Media Accelerator enhances the online consumer experience by enabling providers to dynamically and temporarily increase Internet connection speed for high-speed content delivery and premium services. Installed alongside network equipment on a service provider's premise, Media Accelerator enables service providers and content providers to create activity-specific high-speed services so that...; Tags: Service Provider, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Media Accelerator, Business Services, Internet, Networking; White papers 2008-02-01

Does Web 2.0 Need IT?: One of the hot topics here at the Web 2.0 Conference and Expo was whether computing resources will remain in the enterprise or migrate into the network. So called "Cloud Computing" has garnered much interest with some folk arguing that Web 2.0 somehow changes the paradigm and erases the...; Tags: Web, Information Technology, Industry, Service Provider, Organization, Web 2.0, Business Services, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-01-31
SOA as 'My Cloud': SOA as 'My Cloud'IT as a partner doesn't mean a service provider mentality isn't neededThanks for the link Joe. There are some interesting dynamics with this discussion. On the one hand, I absolutely stand by my statements that IT should be a business partner, and not viewed as...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Business services, service provider, software-as-a-service, information technology, SOA; Discussion threads 2008-01-10
80% of TiVo owners and 82% of other DVR owners likely to skip commercials: Both TiVo and service provider DVR customers are just as likely to skip most commercials. Nearly 80% of TiVo customers and over 82% of service provider DVR customers indicated they skip all or most commercials. Both types are also both likely to record significant amounts of TV per day, with...; Tags: Service Provider, TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Business Services, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, site admin; Blog posts 2008-01-04
Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?: * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dr. Adam J. O'Donnell If you are even peripherally familiar with modern computer security issues, you have heard about the current struggle to identify and repair botnet drones. These botnet networks are the primary...; Tags: Service Provider, Business Services, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2007-11-26
Reselling Hosted Services Strengthens Managed service provider's Offerings: Based in Lanham, MD, Capitol Computer Exchange CCEX is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner that has been providing individually tailored solutions for IT challenges since 1986. CCEX had customers for which a messaging service based on Hosted Microsoft Exchange would be ideal - but CCEX did not want to become...; Tags: Service Provider, CCEX, Business Services; Case studies 2007-11-01
South African service provider Boosts Security for Users With Antivirus: Internet Solutions IS, a leading converged communications service provider in South Africa, has attracted more than 80 per cent of the nation's top businesses as customers. To reinforce its reputation as the dominant hosting and security service provider, IS needed to protect its hosted mailbox users against malicious e-mail messages...; Tags: Antivirus, Server, Service Provider, Microsoft Corp., Content Filtering, Internet, Business Services, Content Management, Security, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-10-22
Better Manage Your Customers' Assets With IBM Maximo for service providers Solutions: Service providers that manage assets have to continually face the challenge of improving service levels and response to their customers, while at the same time improving cash flow and controlling costs. Many companies utilize service providers, allowing them to focus on their core business and mission and reduce overhead while...; Tags: Asset, Service Provider, IBM Corp., Business Services, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2007-10-01
A two-track mind: sharing data, now and later: This is Ben Werdmuller's second report from the Data Sharing Summit in Richmond, CA, which aimed to address the issue of interoperability between social networks. Part one can be found here. Ben is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social networking framework....; Tags: Social Networking, Network, Service Provider, Data Sharing, Ben, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2007-09-11
Cryptographic service provider Developer's Toolkit (CSPDK) (exe): The Cryptographic Service Provider Developer's Kit is eligible for export from the U.S. to all customers worldwide, except to U.S. embargoed destinations. Other countries may exercise separate jurisdiction over the import, export, or use of encryption products. Users who download this product should observe any local regulations that may apply...; Tags: U.S., Developer, Service Provider, Business Services; Software downloads 2007-08-30
CryptoAPI: Cryptographic service provider Test Suite (EXE): The Cryptographic Service Provider Test Suite is a set of automated tests that can be ran against any Cryptographic Service Provider to check for stability and common problems. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Service Provider, Business Services; Software downloads 2007-08-30
SaaS now ready to succeed where ASPs failed -- especially for smaller businesses: Read a full transcript of the podcast. There is an entire universe of suppliers and vendors that support the delivery of applications as on-demand services. Indeed, the Software as a Service SaaS model is attracting more than end users who acquire their IT via user-per-month service subscriptions....; Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Microsoft ASP, ISV, Business Model, Service Provider, Market, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-08-29
Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com): Earlier this week, I attended a panel discussion that was primarily hosted by AMD but included panelists from HP, EMC, and APC and was moderated by Uptime Institute's chief analyst Bruce Taylor. The Uptime Institute earns its keep by playing host to the community of people and technologists with an...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Service Provider, Uptime, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-17
Predicting the next phase of the Internet: Will the Internet still be here in 20 years? Of course it will, but that was the question asked of Nick McKeown, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun; and Phil McKinney, vice president and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Security, SaaS, Personal Technology, iPhone, General, Broadband; Blog posts 2007-08-02
QoS, QoE & Total Customer Experience: Business success requires productively and simply leveraging an increasingly rich menu of IP network-based Multimedia, Internet, Communications and Entertainment MICE capabilities. Due to the sophistication required to provide, support and manage MICE capabilities they are often purchased as services from a service provider. Because MICE services are critical to business...; Tags: QoS, Mouse, Consultant, Service Provider, Business Success, Mice, Business Services, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals; White papers 2007-07-27
Enabling Service Innovation: Maximizing Assets and Revenue in a Changing Network Environment: Telecommunications technologies and network architectures are constantly changing. This means that Telecommunications Service Provider TSP executives must make business decisions about products, services and markets against a moving target of network technologies and business and service strategies. In this unstable environment, strategic decisions are therefore often made without knowing how...; Tags: Asset, Innovation, Revenue, Network, Service Provider, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Services, Telephony, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Web Services, Telecommunications, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-06-15