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Solution Providers Face the Cost of Doing Business
Even though the federal reserve has stopped raising interest rates, at least for the time being, borrowing money is still a costly proposition. For solution providers, which work on ever-tightening profit margins, higher interest rates can deal a harsh blow to an organization’s bottom line. Interest rates affect everything from financing inventory to the ability…
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Storage Spending Upsurge Hurts IT Budgets
It’s not news that the amount of digital content in the world is increasing much faster than IT’s ability to store it and make it readily accessible. It is news, however, when two separate surveys report that storage spending is so out of control that it is having a serious impact on overall IT budgets.…
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I.T. Pros Share Their New Year’s Resolutions
Jeff Peterson, CIO of UNICCO Service Company, a $700 million facilities and equipment management company, has big plans for 2007. He’ll be laying the technology groundwork for the Newton, Mass.-based firm, which maintains offices, production plants and heavy equipment for more than 1,000 clients, to increase its revenues to $1 billion in the next few…
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This Happy Breed: IT Workers Who Like Their Jobs
When the majority of people talk about work, it’s almost undoubtedly followed up with a complaint. From "Dilbert" comics to the movie "Office Space," the grumblings are remarkably similar: too little pay, too many hours, no respect, bad chairs, mean bosses, stifled creativity, under-funded projects, lousy equipment and an assault of busy work. Hearing enough…
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Sun Labs Looks at Search, Online Games
BURLINGTON, Mass.—Sun Microsystems spends about $2 billion a year in research and development, touching on everything from its SPARC and x86 server lines to its Solaris operating system to its storage devices and Java development offering. About 10 percent of that R&D money goes to the company’s labs, where researchers pursue different projects with the…
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Seagate to Acquire EVault for $185 Million
Disk drive sales leader Seagate Technology continued its expansion-by-acquisition strategy Dec. 21 with the announcement that it will acquire privately held EVault, a provider of online backup services, in an all-cash transaction for about $185 million. With the deal, Seagate significantly augments its service business, which includes data recovery, online backup/recovery and archiving for SMBs…
