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Smartphones, Tablets Cause Rise in Data Use: Oracle
Data use is increasing at a rapid pace as tablets, smartphones and applications saturate wireless space, according to the results of Oracle s "Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications – Take Two" report, which surveyed more than 3,000 mobile phone consumers worldwide to examine their mobile phone use habits, interest in new mobile technologies…
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Intuit, Bank of America Partner on SMB Payroll Services
Bank of America and Intuit announced the availability of Intuit Full Service Payroll for Bank of America small business customers, which provides guaranteed error-free paychecks and payroll taxes, as well as a team of experts to address any number of payroll issues. One key feature is the guaranteed 100 percent accuracy of federal, state and…
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SolarWinds Rolls Out Platform for Managed Services
It’s official. IT management software developer SolarWinds is formally setting its sights on managed service providers (MSP) following an announcement recently that it’s releasing software targeted specifically at the services crowd. A long-time favorite among MSPs, SolarWinds produces a downloadable suite of products for application and server, network, storage resource, virtualization and log management. Leveraged…
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Virtualized Environments Causing Data Loss for Businesses: Report
Sixty-five percent of organizations frequently experience data loss from a virtual environment, according to 369 IT professionals surveyed by data protection specialist Kroll Ontrack. That figure represents a 140 percent increase in virtual data loss when compared with last year’s survey. Key findings indicate that 53 percent of those surveyed experienced five virtual data loss…
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PartnerPedia Unveils Enterprise AppZone
Partnerpedia, a long-time developer of private-label mobile-application marketplaces, entered the space under its own name at the recent Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011 in Orlando, with the unveiling of the Partnerpedia Enterprise AppZone. By 2014, there will be more than 70 billion mobile application downloads from app stores each year, Gartner predicted, in a new report…
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Gartner Symposium: IT Solution Providers Take on the Cloud
The omens all pointed upward at this year’s Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011: Attendance was up by about 1,000, the vendor headcount increased by almost 100, and everywhere solution providers and consulting firms and vendors espoused the opportunities new technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing were transforming into signed contracts. In fact, 85 percent of…