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Best Buy Acquires MindShift Technologies for $167 Million
Big box retailer Best Buy said that it has reached an agreement to acquire MindShift Technologies, a managed service provider for small and midsize businesses, for $167 million. The company provides cloud services, data center services and professional services to more than 5,400 clients and 25,000 managed desktops in markets throughout the United States. Through…
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Dimension Data Launches Managed Service for Visual Communications
As more companies begin to deploy visual communications solutions, the ability to collaborate across a wide variety of environments is moving from business perk to business need. To meet that need and help companies overcome the challenges of deployment, $4.7 billion global IT solution provider Dimension Data launched its Managed Service for Visual Communications Nov.…
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The Right Hire: Why It’s So Important at SMBs
The Wall Street Journal recently did a piece about employees and the difficulty finding people. It’s an interesting read, and the professor of management at Wharton has a lot of things to say. He’s also not working in a small business, and as business school knowledge often is, he is out of touch with the…
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Cisco Updates Business Edition 3000, 6000 Platforms
Unified communications and networking specialist Cisco Systems introduced innovations to the company’s Business Edition 3000 and the Cisco Business Edition 6000 (formerly known as the Unified Communications Manager Business Edition 3000 and 6000, respectively). The Business Edition 3000 server makes available IP telephony for as little as $100 per user for a 100-user organization, while Business…
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Spectra Logic Introduces ExaScale Storage for ‘Big Data’
Storage specialist Spectra Logic unveiled five products and advancements designed for exascale storage, including a high-capacity storage system, the T-Finity enterprise tape library capable of storing more than 3.6 exabytes of data, as well as performance, reliability and data integrity advancements across its complete line of T-Series tape libraries. A single T-Finity library will now…
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IBM Brings Data Analytics, Intelligence Capabilities to Security Services Solutions
IBM unveiled enhancements to its security services portfolio, promising customers improved data analytics and deeper real-time analysis of security threats. Customers can analyze data from multiple sources across the enterprise and determine how to tweak their security strategies and make sure security and business needs are aligned using new intelligence tools and services, IBM said…