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Week in Review: Cisco, More Storage, Passings
Good: What’s good for Cisco is good for Cisco. Cisco’s $830 million of the spam and e-mail filtering company was a much needed move for Cisco’s plans to evolve into a true platform company. Spam and e-mail abuse has moved from being rare, to being a pain to now being capable of bringing a company’s…
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IronPort Buyout May Open New Doors for Cisco
While some industry watchers were surprised by the $830 million price tag that Cisco Systems agreed to pay for messaging security specialists IronPort, most analysts agree that the deal opens a range of new opportunities for the networking giant. In addition to improving the technological underpinnings necessary to deliver the “self-defending network,” experts said that…
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On-Demand CRM Vendor RightNow Stumbles in Q4
On-demand customer relationship management vendor RightNow Technologies stumbled badly in its fourth quarter. The company issued a warning late in the afternoon of Jan. 4 that its fourth-quarter 2006 revenues would see a shortfall, as will its earnings. Company officials said fourth-quarter revenues, which will be reported Jan. 31, will come in at about $28…
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Alliance: A Professional Code of Ethics Will Distinguish MSPs from the Crowd
Looking to enhance the image of its membership in the eyes of end users, the MSPAlliance, a professional organization of managed service providers, has created a code of ethics. The move is intended to provide a benchmark for the emerging area of managed services and to also give the organization’s members an advantage over anyone…
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AT&T-BellSouth Merger May Be Good for Business
Within minutes of final FCC approval of the merger between telecom giants AT&T and BellSouth, the wheels of change began turning to create a 22-state communications company that takes a big step in reassembling the old Ma Bell of decades past. The huge telecom monopoly broken up by federal edict years ago was again starting…
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Layoffs Laid Low in 2006
Planned job cuts totaled 839,822 jobs in 2006, 232,000 less than in 2005, according to a report released Jan. 4 by the New York-based Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement consultancy. Overall, 2006 job cuts were 22 percent lower than in 2005, and for the first time since the year 2000, annual job cut…
