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CompTIA: Momentum Building for Business Cloud Adoption
Momentum behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as businesses move from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to research published by CompTIA, the nonprofit trade association for the IT industry. More than half (56 percent) of the organizations surveyed for CompTIA’s Second Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study said their investment…
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Cisco Debuts Router for M2M Communications
Cisco Systems officials are continuing to bring their networking capabilities farther from the data center, with the latest example being the company’s new Cisco 819 ISR Machine-to-Machine Gateway. The new Integrated Services Router (ISR), announced Aug. 23, dovetails with Cisco officials’ idea of the “Internet of things,” putting networking capabilities into machines not normally connected…
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Facebook Twitter Users Exhibit Social Media Fatigue
Facebook Twitter Users Exhibit Social Media Fatigue 24 percent of those polled said they use their favorite social media site less than when they first signed up. No Title 33 percent said they were concerned about online privacy, But only 22 percent of teens said privacy concerns hurt their enthusiasm for social media. No Title…
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AMD Names Rory Read to CEO Job
AMD has named Lenovo COO Rory Read as its new CEO, effective immediately. Read will also serve on AMD’s board of directors. Read, 49, has spent the last 5 years at Lenovo after a long career at IBM. "Rory is a proven leader with an impressive record of driving profitable growth," said Bruce Claflin, chairman…
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Connectwise, Level Platforms, Quosal Roll Out Updates
The first news came last week from Level Platforms, which took the lid off of added functionality to its Managed Workplace platform that improves managed service providers’ monitoring and support capabilities . With this new release Level Platforms added a new remote tools function and a new plug-in Service Module architecture to extend the Policy…
