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  • Small Business Employment Lags in August: Report

    Small businesses created 35,000 new jobs in August, but employees worked fewer hours and received less money, key findings among the results of this month’s update of the Intuit Inc. Small Business Employment Index, covering the period between July 24 and Aug. 23. The monthly report found that small business employment grew by 0.18 percent…

  • IBM Launches New Hybrid Cloud for Enterprises

    IBM has announced a new hybrid cloud solution based in part on technology the company got from its 2010 acquisition of Cast Iron. IBM’s new hybrid cloud helps clients reduce the time it takes to connect, manage and secure public and private clouds. With new integration and management capabilities, organizations of all sizes will be…

  • Cisco Acquires Office 365 Collaboration Provider

    Cisco Systems, continuing to look into markets outside the network infrastructure sector that it already leads, Aug. 29 announced that it is acquiring 2-year-old collaboration software maker Versly. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Versly’s speciality is that it brings Microsoft applications into social networking. It integrates employee and supply-chain collaboration within…

  • Amazon’s Anticipated Android Tablet Could Ship 5 Million Units

    Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) could sell anywhere between 3 million and 5 million Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android tablets in the fourth quarter, making it far and away the most successful slate provider on the open-source platform, according to Forrester Research. The e-commerce giant is expected to introduce a tablet based on Google’s Android “Honeycomb” operating system in October.…

  • Out-of-Control IT Projects Can Kill Enterprises

    Major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other business projects, according to a recent study from Oxford University. IT projects on average are 27 percent over budget and take 55 percent longer to complete than originally planned, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School’s BT Centre for Major Program…

  • EMC Virtual Storage Integrator Supports VMware vCenter

    EMC, a provider of information infrastructure in VMware virtual and cloud environments, introduced the next generation of Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) 5.0, a free VMware vCenter plug-in designed to enable IT organizations to run their data center operations more simply and efficiently, and to accelerate the move to cloud computing. With this version of VSI,…

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