Recent Articles
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Are Solution Providers, VARs and IT Consultants Ready for Environmental Certifications?
Anyone who has bought an appliance in recent years surely has come across the Energy Star designation, which assures buyers the dishwasher or air-condition unit they choose has achieved a certain standard of energy efficiency. The same goes for computer products such as power supplies, desktops and monitors. But what if you’re a solution provider…
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Chambers Says Cisco Clients Mixed on Economy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc is seeing mixed views from its customers around the world, Chief Executive John Chambers said in response to a question about global technology demand in an interview with CNBC. Chambers said on Wednesday that network equipment maker Cisco’s customers were still expecting an economic recovery in the first…
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Finding Funding in a Tight Credit Market
Just about everybody has a different opinion concerning how steep the current economic downturn might actually be. But one thing everybody can agree on is that credit has tightened to the point where it’s affecting the willingness of customers to fund new IT projects. With limited access to credit, customers have been husbanding that resource…
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Free Embotics V-Scout Tool Helps Consultants Tame VMware Environments
Take a step back and think about how most administrators are “managing” their VMware virtual environments, and you will find that the word “management” does not really apply. When it comes to virtual systems, most administrators are focused on the reactive and not the proactive form of management. What’s more, most of those same administrators…
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Google Set to Introduce its Own Web Browser
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich applications, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics. Google officials confirmed news of long-rumored plans to offer its own Web browsing software, entitled Google Chrome,…
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Google Offers Video-Sharing for Businesses
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is adding YouTube-like video communications features to its business application suite, looking to make video-sharing among office workers as easy as trading e-mails or instant messages. Unlike YouTube, which is aimed at consumers, Google Video for business is designed to be shared among designated users…