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An Inside View Todays Data Center
An Inside View Todays Data Center The Gloucester County Institute of Technology, Sewell, N.J., recently embarked on a $500,000 technology infrastructure upgrade. As part of this massive initiative, the school called in integrator Rick Tashman of Syscom Technologies, Blue Bell, Pa., to help design, deploy and service a new data center optimizing the latest virtualization,…
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Technology Talent Poaching to Get More Aggressive in 2011
A recent study by IT job search specialist Dice found more than half (54 percent) of hiring managers and recruiters anticipate that tech talent poaching will get more aggressive this year, while just three percent of respondents expect a let-up. That expectation is amplified when looking at hiring managers working in the technology or consulting…
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Google Brings User Managed Storage to Apps Customers
Taking a page out of the books of Web-based storage providers, Google March 1 began offering User Managed Storage to meet Google Apps customers’ requirements for additional space for their content in the cloud. Google Apps is the search engine’s suite of e-mail, document, presentation, spreadsheet and other apps, all residing on servers in Google’s…
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Cisco Launches Two New Communications Solutions for the SMB
Communications specialist Cisco Systems announced the launch of two Unified Communications (UC) platforms aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The company also announced a global sales productivity initiative called Cisco Partner Advisor, with agents available to give Select and Registered partners immediate and personalized sales support to accelerate sales, as well as extending Cisco…
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Why You Lose Your Customers
by John Hlavac Are your customer interactions working fabulously for everyone involved — for you, your organization and your customer? If so, great! If not, when do you plan to fix that? Why not now? I have seen faithful customers lost because the solution provider assumed the customer would never leave. Or maybe they didn’t…
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Home-Based Businesses Grew in 2010: AMI Report
There was an 11 percent increase in those who started their home-based business due to downsizing last year in the United States last year, according to a report from AMI Partners. The report noted last year sole proprietorships made up two-thirds of the home-based business market, this year it is only one-third of the total…
