Recent Articles
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Industry Labors in Anticipation of Health Records Standards
That there isn’t a standard for electronic medical records already is somewhat of a surprise to Brian Deeley. Deeley’s firm, Graymar Business Solutions, provides doctors offices and hospitals with digital voice recognition solutions that record verbal comments on a patient and translate them into complete, electronic health records, ready for transmission around the world. Graymar’s…
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Microsoft Readies Next Two Small Business Server Releases
While Microsoft Corp. is preparing its midmarket marketing onslaught, the company is not forgoing its small-business push. Microsoft is expected to roll out a new Windows Midmarket Server bundle at a business summit for midmarket customers on Sept. 7. Although the midmarket server is not expected to ship until 2007, according to sources, Microsoft will…
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Gulf SMBs Flirting with Disaster
As Hurricane Katrina ripped through the heart of the central U.S. Gulf Coast it threatened every company in the area. But small- and medium-sized businesses faced a more severe threat than larger companies. Unlike larger organizations, which usually have remote data centers storing all mission-critical data at regular intervals, smaller companies often don’t have the…
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Tech Hiring Increases, At Least at the High End
Headlines over the past few days trumpeted the news that the number of people receiving unemployment benefits has hit a four-year low. The number of displaced workers receiving benefits averaged 2.58 million during the four-week period ending the week of August 15—the lowest average since March 2001, according to Department of Labor numbers. Is this…
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Dog Days Are for Catch-Up, Not Cat Naps
With Labor Day about a week and half away, we are effectively entering what we fondly like to call the “mean season.” Summer is all but gone. It’s time to put the cover back on the pool, break out your NFL team garb and get back to business. Business always ratchets up in the third…
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HP’s ProCurve Sale Rumors Leave VARs Wary
Since rumors hit the channel that Hewlett-Packard was seeking buyers for ProCurve, its Ethernet switching unit, resellers of the solution have been taking a wait-and-see approach. Hewlett-Packard Co. declined to comment on the reported sale, word of which first surfaced in the Aug. 16 issue of BusinessWeek magazine, but channel partners of the Palo Alto,…
