Year: 2011
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Regulations, EHRs Lead to Demand for Specific Talents in Health Care IT
Categories: News and TrendsHealth care IT has a shortage of perfect candidates, yet government regulations such as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are creating an urgency for personnel in health care technology more than ever before. “It’s reached a perfect storm stage and is… Read more
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HP’s webOS Top Contenders to Buy the Palm Operating System
Categories: Tech CompaniesHP’s webOS Top Contenders to Buy the Palm Operating System Amazon.comThis online superstar has been mentioned by more than one expert as a potential buyer of HP’s webOS. But with its Android-based Kindle Fire ready to ship, does that really make sense? Or maybe Amazon would eschew Android for the chance to own its own… Read more
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McAfee Launches Cloud Security Platform Updates
Cloud computing security specialist McAfee announced the latest enhancements to the company’s Cloud Security Platform. The platform, which can be deployed as an on-premise appliance, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or a hybrid combination, includes Cloud Identity Manager, also available from Intel as Expressway Cloud Access 360, which expands integration with SAML aware and traditional log-in cloud applications.… Read more
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Best Buys Big Strategic Moves
Categories: News and TrendsBest Buys Big Strategic Moves Best Buy Europe will scrap plans for big box stores, closing all 11 of the U.K pilot stores. Instead it will focus on its 2,500 profitable small box stores. No Title Best Buy will buy Carphone Warehouse’s Stake in Best Buy Mobile for $1.3 billion in cash. The deal is… Read more
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Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Gaining Ground in Midmarket: Gartner
By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today, according to Gartner. RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service provider’s cloud, together with the means to activate the… Read more
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IBM zEnterprise System to Bring Windows to the Mainframe
IBM has made good on its promise to deliver Windows integration with the IBM mainframe via the zEnterprise System. When IBM introduced the zEnterprise in July 2010, the company also announced plans to deliver additional general-purpose blades for the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension including IBM System x-based blades running Linux in 2011. IBM also suggested… Read more