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  • IT Job Opportunities Abound Within Hidden Job Market

    As unemployment rates hold steady, job seekers in the technology industry are finding that prospects still glimmer, particularly  for those willing to take less traditional working arrangements and those with skills particularly pertaining to social media and cloud-based technologies. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its labor statistics for July, showing that within the private…

  • Virtualizing Your Business

    I have this crazy idea. The idea of breaking apart a business and reforming it into something new is fascinating, and leads to some new critical thinking. Could you imagine a service provider in a cloud world that employs no service personnel? I suggested this once in a room of solution providers and was practically…

  • Lenovo’s Enterprise Stronghold 10 Ways the Laptop Maker Continues to Surprise

    Lenovo’s Enterprise Stronghold 10 Ways the Laptop Maker Continues to Surprise 1. Sticking With the EnterpriseLenovo is perfectly content with sticking with the enterprise. The company knows that there is a big and profitable consumer market out there, but it continues to deliver an experience to corporate customers that is making it successful. By focusing…

  • HP, Dell Quarter Earnings Soothe Recession Fears

    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) dismissed worries about weakening technology demand, reporting broad-based strength from corporate customers and only hints of weakness from consumers. Both faced questions on Thursday about the strength of the recovery in spending on technology, after Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers’…

  • Rise Launches Cloud Services for Channel Partners

    Rise, a division of U.K.-based Web hosting company Fasthosts Internet, announced it has expanded its channel-focused cloud computing offerings for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) in North America. The company also announced its first U.S.-based channel partner, Titanium Ant, an IT consultancy and technology management company based in Seattle. Rise has more than 1 million…

  • Intel, McAfee Deal: Quick Takeaways and Potential Ramifications

    While no one seems to have expected this particular combination of companies – Intel, a dominant force in the chip space, particularly processors, and McAfee, a major player in the security space – once you start to think about the $7.68 billion deal and what McAfee could offer Intel, it starts to make a lot…

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