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SAP to Buy Crossgate Enterprise Data Exchange Service
SAP plans to buy out Crossgate, a business-to-business electronic data exchange service that allows trading partners to securely transmit critical business information, including production orders, specifications and invoices. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Crossgate, which was founded in 2001 and is based in Munich, Germany, allows enterprises to set up dedicated secure data…
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Channel Finds Cloud Seeded with Cash
Despite much hand wringing over the impact of cloud in the channel, many companies are beginning to gain a clearer – and more relief-tinged – picture of what the model means to the industry at large and their own business roadmaps. Clearly for the channel, the devil is in the details. Companies today are determining…
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Cisco Survey: Net as Important as Air We Breathe
Priorities and the way technology has certainly changed, even in the last several years. According to a new study from Cisco Systems, one in three college students and young employees around the world believe the Internet is a fundamental to their survival as the air they breathe, the food they eat, the water in their…
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HP Channel Partners Open Cloud Centers of Excellence
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced that 19 HP Cloud Centers of Excellence have been established in 2011 at partner facilities throughout the United States. The centers are designed to enable clients to gain knowledge of, and experience, the benefits of cloud computing technologies such as accelerated service delivery and operational efficiency. A total of 40 centers…
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What Now for HP and Apotheker?
Could Meg Whitman replace Leo Apotheker as CEO of technology giant HP (NYSE:HPQ)? It’s entirely possible. A report from Bloomberg today cites two people familiar with the matter and says that HP’s board is meeting to consider ousting HP CEO Leo Apotheker less than a year after he took over as CEO. The Wall Street…
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Demand for Cloud-Based Applications Rising Among SMBs: Report
Half the employees at small and midsize businesses are estimated to be working outside the office, and a quarter of SMBs’ staff works outside the firm at any given time, at any given time, according to a new study, entitled "State-of-the-Market 2011 Report: Mobility Trends in SMBs." The report, released by business communications specialist Fonality…