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Breaking into EHR If You Don’t Know How to Start
By Jessica Schroder Most VARs and MSPs know that moving into the vertical of EHR (Electronic Health Records) and EMR (Electronic Medical Records) is one area where their businesses should be heading. There’s a large amount of federal money available, doctors are being offered incentives to transition to Electronic Health Records ($20 billion at last…
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Dell, SAP Partner on Cloud, In-Memory Computing
A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their…
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Skype Kills Open-Source Digium Asterisk VOIP PBX Support
Two weeks after Microsoft said it would acquire Skype, the voice over IP company has begun cutting its ties with the open-source world. Asterisk was the first partner cut loose. Skype decided not to renew its agreement with Digium, which allowed Asterisk, the open-source telephony system, to be integrated with the Skype service, Digium said…
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Exchange Host Intermedia Gets New Owner, CEO
Microsoft Exchange hosting giant Intermedia is going the way of private equity. Oak Hill Capital Partners announced it will acquire Intermedia and appoint former Savvis CEO Phil Koen as chairman and CEO of the New York-based hosting firm which just rolled out a cloud-based backup service this spring. “We are proud to have built this…
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Cisco Gaining Ground in X86 Blade Server Market: IDC
Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell were among the familiar names at the top of IDC’s list of the top server vendors for the first quarter. Even Oracle, a year after buying Sun Microsystems, has become a known entity in the server space. However, new to the rankings is Cisco Systems, the networking giant that two years…
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Small Businesses Don’t Know About the Cloud: Survey
Nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of small businesses surveyed by Newtek Business Services said they have never heard of cloud computing, underlining a fundamental lack of knowledge about the technology. Based on a poll of approximately 1,800 respondents, the survey found only 26 percent of those who had heard of cloud computing could describe what it…