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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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Selecting a Microsoft Hosted Exchange Service Provider: When it comes to the decision to outsource the delivery of your organisation's messaging solution, the task of selecting the most appropriate service provider can be daunting This whitepaper from Cobweb Solutions, Europe's leading Microsoft Hosted Exchange provider, is designed to help simplify that task for...; Tags: Provider, Service Provider, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Business Services, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2009-06-16
Email service provider: 'Hack into our CEO's email, win $10k': Email service provider: 'Hack into our CEO's email, win $10k'cool ideaSounds like a really good idea. No reason this shouldn't be implemented in all webmail providers.If hacked it's unlikely the method will be......a direct attack on the user ID / authentication method but rather a bug in the configuration...; Tags: Business services, e-mail, Email Service Provider, service provider; Discussion threads 2009-06-02
Citrix C3 Ã¢â‚¬" Where are the partners?: Citrix put some significant new meat on the bones of its Citrix Cloud Center (C3) offeringÃ‚Â last week but left behind one crucial element. Who are the partners delivering this offering? At its annual customer get together, Citrix Synergy 2009, the company fulfilled our prediction of the true...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Citrix C3 Strategy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Internet, James Staten; Blog posts 2009-05-11
Winsock LSP (Layered Service Provider) Guide: LSP Layered Service Provider is a component that intercepts winsock2 calls, has the ability to manipulate them, and then has the option to pass them to the winsock2 provider. LSP is organized in a chain structure: the first call goes to the first LSP in the chain, the LSP processes...; Tags: Service Provider, Layered Technologies Inc., Komodia, Winsock LSP, Business Services; White papers 2009-03-12
Service Provider Establishes New Basis for Enterprise-Wide Data Platform Operation: SK Communications is a globally competitive online service provider that delivers new concepts in Internet serv. SK Communications has made successful entries into China, Japan, the US, and Europe. The company's concerns about data expansion issues such as an increasing number of users and traffic are growing daily. Types of...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Service Provider, SK Communications, Business Services, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies 2009-03-11

Protect Your Ability to Deliver Valued Services: The rising tide of spam and malware challenges service providers of every type: Internet Service Providers ISPs, Managed Service Providers MSPs, mobile operators, Application Service Providers ASPs, and others. It consumes bandwidth, increasing infrastructure expenditures. Customer complaints tie up the help desk, increasing operational costs. Worst of all, the resulting...; Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Service Provider, Business Services, Cyberthreats, Security; White papers 2009-03-01
Application Security Market Trends for Service Providers: Security Approaches for Business-Critical Applications and Data in Today's Evolving Threat Landscape: The protection of the applications and data that drive business processes and transactions is critical for ensuring business availability, employee productivity, revenue loss avoidance, and brand and corporate reputation protection. As the miscreant economy spreads across all sectors of the economy and threats increase in sophistication and complexity, the protection...; Tags: Service Provider, Application Security, Business Services, Security; White papers 2009-03-01
Improve operational efficiencies through effective management: Service providers in the communications, media, and entertainment industries are undergoing significant changes in the types of services demanded, competition faced, and the technologies and business models that can sustain and grow their business. This paper outlines methods to help service providers improve overall operational efficiency within the service assurance...; Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Business Services; White papers 2009-02-04
Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failure: A Forrester Research blog post pushing virtually all blame for IT failures onto technology buyers caught me by surprise because it doesn't correspond to real world complexities of why IT projects fail. by Michael Krigsman; Tags: Project, Consultant, Information Technology, Service Provider, Forrester Research Inc., IT Devil, Business Services, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2009-01-20
Beware of Satyam ambulance-chasers: IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve been inundated with questions from SatyamÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s competitors who have all been eagerly circling the beleaguered service providerÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s clients over the past week. by Phil Fersht; Tags: Satyam, Service Provider, Business Services, Phil Fersht; Blog posts 2009-01-14
Ethics and Indian services firms: What was going on at the World Bank? Check out this piece in the Guardian. It details how the World Bank has barred Indian services firm Wipro for four years starting in 2007. This is a result of an offer to sell 'friends and family' shares of...; Tags: Service Provider, Ethics, World Bank, Free Trade, Business Services, Finance, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2009-01-14
Webinar: IT analysts delve into desktop as service/VDI cloud opportunities for enterprises and telcos: We recognize that itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s not just going to be a PC on every desktop. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s going to be a broadband Internet connection in every coat pocket, regardless of where you are. That fundamentally changes things. WeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re still catching up to that shift. by Dana Gardner; Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, PC, Information Technology, Webinar, Service Provider, Desktops, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2009-01-07
InterCall Is an Easy-to-Use Conferencing Service Provider: InterCall is an easy-to-use conferencing service provider that can give your business a definite competitive edge in today's world. As a leader in the conferencing industry, InterCall understands the importance of business relationships to the success of companies and corporations in every industry. Without effective communication, both internally and externally,...; Tags: Service Provider, InterCall, Business Services; White papers 2009-01-01
Outsourcing Predictions for 2009: It's going to be a pivotal year in the global IT and BPO services business as companies seek to get more for less with their budgets. How will this impact the world of global services delivery and outsourcing? by Phil Fersht; Tags: BPO, Service Provider, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Managed Hosting, Business Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht; Blog posts 2008-12-31
Optimizing Security and Carrier Network Performance With IBM and CloudShield: As technology changes continue to accelerate, telecommunication service providers are seeking new ways to manage more complex, high-bandwidth, IP-based data services such as multimedia, full-HTML web browsing, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing, streaming video on hand-held devices, and Internet Video Services. Each of these services requires greater demand from the service...; Tags: Security, Network, P2P, Service Provider, IBM Corp., Carrier, Business Services, Peer To Peer (P2P), Productivity, Handhelds, Internet, Hardware; Webcasts 2008-11-12
Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects: Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...; Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-10
Best Practices for Securing Service Provider Networks: Protecting Infrastructure and Managing Customer Security: To thrive in today's economy, service providers must provide open, easily accessible communications services that enable their end users to contact anyone worldwide. The same open, freely scalable communication architecture that provides unlimited communications services to the end users also poses an extremely attractive target to hackers who would abuse...; Tags: Financial, Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Service Provider, Best Practice, Hacker, Business Services, Hacking, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance; White papers 2008-09-01
Interconnecting Eyeballs to Content: A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Peering and Settlement: Internet Service Providers ISPs must interconnect to provide global Internet connectivity to users. The payment structure of these interconnections are often negotiated and maintained via bilateral agreements. Current differences of opinion in the appropriate revenue model in the Internet have on occasion caused ISPs to de-peer from one another, hindering...; Tags: Settlement, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Business Services; White papers 2008-08-22
Virtualization Support for SLA-Driven Resource Distribution Within Service Providers: Resource management is a key challenge that service providers must adequately face in order to ensure their profitability. This paper describes a proof-of-concept framework for facilitating resource management in service providers, which allows reducing costs and at the same time fulfilling the quality of service agreed with the customers. This...; Tags: SLA, Service Provider, Virtual Environment, Resource Management, Business Services, Service Level Management, Virtualization, It Operations, It service Management, Hardware; White papers 2008-07-14
Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting: A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-09