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  • Proving IT Value Demonstrating a Channel Partners Worth

    Proving IT Value Demonstrating a Channel Partners Worth Employee ProductivityTraditionally measured by sales per employee, employee productivity is boosted 14.4 percent by a 10 percent increase in data usability. No Title Employee ProductivityThe median sales per employee of those organizations studied by UT researchers was $388,000. Improving the way employees are able to use data…

  • Skype, Facebook Explore Potential Integration

    Sept 30 (Reuters) – Social networking website Facebook and Internet telephone company Skype are in talks to establish a partnership that is aimed at integrating their communication services, Wall Street Journal said, citing a person familiar with the situation. Under the proposed partnership, Facebook users would be able to sign into Skype through their Facebook…

  • Microsoft, LG Partner on Cloud, Virtualization

    (Reuters) – South Korea’s LG Electronics (066570.KS) said on Thursday it had signed a partnership deal with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on cloud computing and virtualization, hot IT technologies aimed at helping business cut costs. Under the pact, LG will introduce monitors integrated with Microsoft software. The monitors will function as virtual computers, allowing multiple users to…

  • Dell Enhances Virtual Integrated System Architecture

    Dell introduced new capabilities and services for its Virtual Integrated System architecture, which allows businesses to scale their environment up or down to match the variability of workloads. The VIS architecture incorporates modular components that integrate with customers’ existing IT environments. The company said VIS architecture components can be purchased individually and do not require…

  • HP Taps Ex-SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as New Leader

    Hewlett-Packard elected to go the road less traveled to find its new chief executive officer. After a nearly two-month search, the world’s largest IT company on Sept. 30 named former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker, 57, as its new president and CEO, replacing Mark Hurd. It was a move few industry people saw coming. >>Click…

  • Storage Vendor FalconStor’s CEO Resigns

    Sept 29 (Reuters) – FalconStor Software Inc (NASDAQ:FALC) said on Wednesday its Chief Executive ReiJane Huai resigned following his disclosure of certain alleged improper payments in connection with the company’s contract with a customer, sending its shares down as much as 34 percent. FalconStor named current Chief Strategy Officer James McNiel as its interim CEO…

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