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  • Cisco Launches Wireless-Only Version of Its ISE

    Cisco Systems officials in April introduced their Identity Services Engine, designed to help enterprises track visitors coming onto their corporate networks. Cisco s ISE was created to manage not only visitors such as freelancers, customers or contract workers who need access to the corporate network, but also in response to the growing trend of employees…

  • Dell Revenue Growth Slows, Yet Profits Jump as Company Transitions

    Dell is a company in transition during a time of significant economic turmoil, and the results are showing in its financial numbers. Dell executives on Aug. 16 announced a second-quarter profit jump of about 63 percent, to $890 million, up from $545 million during the same period in 2010. That profit growth came on revenues…

  • Intel Plans Bug Fix for SSD 320 Drives

    Software bug and security fixes are released all the time from top-tier companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and others, but it’s relatively rare when such a notice emanates from Intel. The world’s largest chipmaker on Aug. 15 wrapped a firmware fix for its solid-state 320 model drives that eradicates a problem involving storage. The affected…

  • HP TouchPad Not Selling Well at Best Buy: Report

    Sales of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad are flagging at Best Buy stores, according to a new report. If accurate, that’s a potential sign of wider trouble for HP’s tablet. “According to one source who’s seen internal HP reports,” read an Aug. 16 piece by Arik Hesseldahl on AllThingsD, “Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and…

  • Getting It Right in the Post-Managed Services Era

    The IT channel is about to enter the post-managed services era. Much like modernism led to postmodernism in art and philosophy, the managed services model is evolving into a new IT consumption reality. At the heart of the change is the cloud, and more specifically, how managed services providers (MSPs) choose to proceed into a…

  • Facebook, Twitter Costing Businesses Time, Money: Report

    A calculator that measures the cost to companies of time spent by employees using social media has revealed that the average company with 52 employees pays out $65,000 per year for non-work-related social media activity. WebTitan’s social media cost calculator shows that workers using non-work-related social networking for a mere 20 minutes is the equivalent…

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