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Apple, Google, Intel Hiring Practices Under Justice Dept. Investigation
A number of high-profile tech companies, ranging from Google and Apple to IBM and Intel, are being probed by federal investigators for their hiring practices, according to the Wall Street Journal. At issue is whether those companies’ alleged agreements to not poach each other’s employees constitute a breach of antitrust laws. The April 9 article…
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Do Microsoft’s Server Moves Indicate a Shift to the Cloud?
Microsoft’s recent decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium chip in its server architecture, along with the elimination of its Essential Business Server (EBS) development, suggests that the company is trying to reposition to take advantage of several developing business IT trends, including virtualization and cloud computing. That paradigm shift is also mirrored on the…
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Thin-Client Vendor Wyse Releases PocketCloud for iPad
Touch-screen technology may be slow to arrive in the enterprise, according to analyst firm Gartner, but that doesn’t mean that IT solution providers don’t have to worry about it right now. That’s because more consumers are using their personal devices—smartphones, iPhones, personal computers, netbooks and tablet computers—for business and work. According to a Gartner survey…
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Symantec: Cloud Computing Security Needs Attention
A joint survey from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute paints a less than rosy picture of enterprise approaches to cloud computing. For many, security seems to be on the backburner. A survey of IT professionals has painted a troubling picture of enterprise approaches to cloud computing security. According to the survey, which was done by…
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Google Apps Reseller Focused on Cloud
Image via Wikipedia Not only has Google recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of its channel reseller partner program, it has also been celebrating those reseller partners lately with some profile stories of them and now a guest blog at the Google Enterprise Blog. Jim McNelis, co-founder of Dito, a Google Apps reseller and a vendor…