Stories about: Cendant

Think you have a lot on your plate? Consider Bob Atwell, senior vice president of Keane, the US$1 billion IT services provider.

At investment management firm Bridgewater Associates, access to real-time data is measured in market ticks. Data feeds containing quote and trade activity are expected to stream in at 124,000 messages per second this year, so even subsecond delays in the arrival of data can affect trading decisions and put the U.S.-based organization at a disadvantage.

Tim Stanley and the IT organization at Harrah's Entertainment in Las Vegas have won many awards for their world-class IT operation. Harrah's IT department has constantly monitored hundreds of details such as system uptime and project deliverables to track its performance over the past five years. It even links the success of its IT objectives to the company's earnings-per-share growth.

After the recent departure of four of the company's top executives, CA has engaged in its second round of reshuffling, appointing Al Nugent as the software vendor's new chief technology officer (CTO).

You may not have noticed recent stories explaining why German book publishers are saying no to Google's -- and previously Amazon.com's -- requests to put German-language books online. But while it's easy to dismiss this as just another publishing industry story, there are larger lessons that continue to get too little emphasis.

Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit against Cendant for patent infringement.

BEA Systems tried to draw attention to its strength in what it deems a new enterprise software category, "service infrastructure," by unveiling on Thursday a new product portfolio dubbed BEA AquaLogic.

IBM is adding to its recently introduced eServer X3 architecture-based servers with the new xSeries 460. Designed for highly scalable, always-on environments, the x460 entry configuration starts with a four-way server and scales up to 32-way processing.

Several IT executives at the LinuxWorld Summit last week reinforced the idea that Linux now has the technical brawn and industry support to accommodate the most demanding business applications in environments such as finance, airline reservations and stock trading.

Network Appliance announced two midrange network-attached storage (NAS) boxes with 50 percent better performance than its highest-end NAS boxes and four times the capacity of previous-generation midrange arrays. The boxes can also be configured with Serial Advanced Technology Attached (SATA) drives that NetApp said can be used for primary storage.

Cendant's Travel Distribution Services (TDS) division has moved its airline fare system to IBM's e-Server systems to deliver fares to customers faster.