Year: 2011
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Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012
Categories: News and TrendsGartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012 Media Tablets and Beyond. Users choose from various form factors, creating a diverse environment with two to four intelligent clients through 2015. IT leaders need a managed diversity program to address multiple form factors, as well as BYOD. No Title Mobile-Centric Applications and Interfaces. UIs with windows, icons,… Read more
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Why Certifications Mean Better Pay, Better Recognition, Better Marketability
It’s hard to believe it wasn’t so long ago that IT was considered a competitive advantage for individuals and businesses. Like the wizards of the medieval era, IT was its own separate entity that mostly sat apart from the rest of world; as did the people in charge of it. Today IT is integrated into… Read more
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IBM’s 3Q Profit Rises 7 Percent as BI, Cloud Spending Grows
IBM saw its third-quarter revenue rise 8 percent to $26.2 billion, largely based on the company’s performance in growth markets, software and services. Moreover, IBM reported that net income in this interval grew 7 percent to $3.8 billion from $3.6 billion. "In the third quarter, we drove revenue growth, margin expansion and increased earnings as… Read more
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Enterasys Debuts OneFabric Networking Portfolio
Enterasys is rolling out its enterprise networking fabric play, OneFabric, which will look to challenge such heavyweights as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks. Enterasys officials unveiled their OneFabric architecture Oct. 17, saying their strategy offers a more complete and less complex solution than those from their competitors. “There are other solutions out there, but… Read more
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Dell, EMC Kill Storage Reseller Partnership Two Years Early
Something that has been talked about openly in storage circles for more than two years has come to pass: Dell and EMC are parting ways in selling storage hardware, and they are ending their agreement two years early. Now Dell and EMC are officially competitors. Following a complicated 10-year partnership that was to run until… Read more