Recent Articles
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Ready to Win: Pumping Your Sales Team for the Recovery
By Ken Thoreson During the past two weeks I have been in Miami, Phoenix and this weekend I have been speaking in San Antonio. I’ve have met with sales leaders from around the world, led workshops, presented keynotes and developed new long term relationships with our client base. It’s been a great few weeks. I…
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Oracle, Fujitsu Partner on Unix to Battle IBM
TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Fujitsu Ltd (T:6702) and Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) plan to jointly develop next-generation Unix servers and expand their decades-old partnership to include a new distribution agreement, the companies said on Wednesday, as they battle to keep up with market leader IBM (NYSE:IBM). The Nikkei Japanese business daily had earlier said Japan’s…
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Cisco Quarter Margins Pressured by Price Competition
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc’s (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers spooked investors for the third time in as many quarters, warning of dwindling public spending and weaker margins from tough competition. Cisco shares fell 10 percent after hours on Wednesday. Shares of peers such as Juniper Networks Inc (NYSE:JNPR),…
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Crucial Tips To Grow Your IT Services Company Your Way
I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. This has to be somewhat amusing to hear from a CEO of an IT solution provider, especially one who tries to do as much planning as I do. When I was a child, I thought I’d be an astronaut. Math got in…
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IT Certifications Grow in Hiring Importance: CompTIA Report
Employers are inclined to rely more heavily on professional certifications when hiring information technology (IT) workers, but are challenged by credential evaluation and validation issues, research from CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the information technology (IT) industry, suggested. The study indicated certifications would grow in importance as organizations seek to fill tech jobs. Among…
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Polycom UC Intelligent Core Enables Cisco Video Conferencing Interoperability
Cisco users longing to integrate Polycom products into their unified communications infrastructures need wait no longer. Polycom’s UC Intelligent Core solution now enables interoperability with other vendors’ solutions, including the closed Cisco telepresence system based on the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP), the company announced. The UC Intelligent Core platform lets users deploy multi-vendor UC solutions…