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VMworld Themes: Cloud Computing, IT as a Service
IT as a service, cloud computing, and virtualization security will dominate as major themes around this year’s VMworld as vendors, channel partners and customers converge on San Francisco’s Moscone Center for VMware’s big conference starting August 30, 2010. >>Click here to read: Microsoft Supplants VMware in Big Customer Win VMware CEO Paul Maritz is expected…
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IT Service Outsourcing Deal Volume On The Rise
While more IT outsourcing services deals are being signed these days, the news is not all good. That’s because the value of the contracts signed has fallen, according to a new report by Ovum. The report revealed that the number of IT outsourcing services deals signed in the second quarter of 2010 was up from…
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Building a Great Team
While I was in London recently to attend the third quarter HTG meetings, I had the opportunity to also speak to the Association of Midlands IT Professionals in Birmingham with my good friend Susanne Dansey of Purple Cow Ideas Management. Susanne and I had a lot of chance to talk about both events, and one…
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IT Spending Indicators Still Murky
IT Spending Indicators Still Murky Gartner believes that IT spending growth will only reach 2.9 percent in 2010, an adjustment from the 4.1 percent yearly growth it had predicted earlier this year. No Title Overall, Gartner thinks IT spending will reach $2.4 trillion in 2010. No Title Meanwhile, IDC predicts a much healthier 6 percent…
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Microsoft Touts VMware Customer Switch to Hyper-V on Eve of VMworld
On the eve of VMware’s San Francisco love fest around its virtualization technologies, VMworld, Microsoft is spreading the word of a big customer win away from the virtualization giant. >>Click here for VMworld Preview<< Microsoft has announced that Fortune 500 company, CH2M Hill, has switched to Microsoft’s virtualization and management software from its previous VMware…
