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Polycom Launches Video Collaboration Platform for SMBs
Unified communications specialist Polycom announced the launch of RealPresence Ready, an open video collaboration platform aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The system includes two HDX 6000 room systems, one HDX 7000 system and five Telepresence m100 software licenses. The solutions are modular so that SMB customers can add components such as Polycom Eagle Eye…
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Akamai Launches Global NetAlliance Partner Program
Cloud-based services provider Akamai Technologies, which specializes in platforms for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce, announced its NetAlliance Partner Program designed for global IT solution providers to integrate Akamai services into their offerings and to pass the value of Akamai’s globally distributed platform on to customers. The…
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Taking Your Managed Services Business to the Next Level
The MSP market is booming, and new players arrive every day. Some do very well, others struggle, but all share one element in common – the desire to achieve growth that leads to increased revenue. However, growth is complicated and can be somewhat risky, often following a torturous path that ultimately ends in uncertainty. That…
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Where’s Microsoft’s Plan to Win in the Consumerization of IT Age?
Image via Wikipedia Take a look at the companies that have made major progress in the technology industry in the past few years and you’ll notice a pattern. Apple and Google both emphasize simplicity and a go-to-market strategy that emphasizes consumer markets. In an age when the consumerization of IT is the reality and the…
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Google Quarter Sales Top $9B
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 14 broke the $9 billion sales mark for the first time ever in the second quarter, a 32 percent boost over Q2 2010 revenues of $6.82 billion. Excluding $2.11 billion in traffic-acquisition costs, the search engine notched $6.92 billion in net revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and non-GAAP earnings per…
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Cloud Computing Dreams Crash into Reality
The promised benefits of cloud computing may be huge from easy collaboration to big cost savings, but relying on the cloud for computing presents its own set of problems. That’s according to partners, customers and experts at a Cisco Live roundtable which shattered a few myths and highlighted some key problems that need to be…
