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  • Disk Storage Systems Market Sees Strong Growth: IDC Report

    Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 12.2 percent, totaling just over $5.6 billion, in the second quarter of 2011, according to IDC’s worldwide quarterly disk storage systems tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to just shy of $7.5 billion in revenues, representing a 10.2 percent…

  • August Employment Index Shows Drop in Hiring: Report

    The August CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI), a barometer for hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees, further decreased by .36 percent through the month, after posting a decrease of .90 percent in July. Today’s announcement follows ADP’s August jobs survey, which showed that the private sector added 91,000 jobs in August,…

  • Salesforce.com Kicks Off ‘Social Enterprise’ Campaign at Dreamforce

    SAN FRANCISCO — Flushed with success from the rapid adoption of the Chatter social networking program, Salesforce.com kicked off its annual Dreamforce user conference here Aug. 31 by saying businesses of all sizes should get ready to build the “social enterprise.” Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says they can do this by using Chatter within the Salesforce.com software…

  • Android’s U.S. Smartphone Share at 40 Percent: Nielsen

    Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android U.S. smartphone market share of 40 percent is equivalent to the percentage of mobile consumers over 18 who use smartphones in this country, according to Nielsen’s July statistics. The researcher said Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS came in at No. 2 with 28 percent. Looking forward, one-third of U.S. consumers polled who said they…

  • Salesforce.com CEO Warns of an ‘Enterprise Spring’

    The revolution will not be televised. Rather, it will be Tweeted, posted on Facebook, and aired on YouTube. What revolution, you ask? Well, according to Salesforce.com Chairman/CEO Marc Benioff, in his Aug. 31 keynote at his company’s Dreamforce 2011 conference, we’re on the cusp of an "Enterprise Spring," a revolutionary period for corporations that is…

  • Adding New Services to Your Managed Services Offering

    The acronym MSP (Managed Services Provider) has taken on a life of its own in the channel. There are those who associate the term with little more than hosted management of PCs and Servers while others have no clue as to what an MSP really is. Many solution providers seem to assume that becoming an…

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