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Tech Finance Chiefs Express Optimism on Jobs and Economy
Accounting firm Grant Thornton recently surveyed 496 chief financial officers on a number of economic and business topics. Of the nearly 500 financial executives, 53 of them worked for technology companies. Tech CFOs were more positive across the board. The 53 in that group were feeling pretty decent about their budgets and hiring, but don’t…
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Dell Demos Streak at Citrix Synergy Conference
SAN FRANCISCO – Michael Dell went onstage for his keynote speech May 13 at the Citrix Synergy conference to certify once again that his company and virtualization software maker Citrix Systems are the best of tech friends and intend to cultivate their relationship for the good of the world. But the real news became clear…
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HP Targets Lower OpEx for IT with New Systems, Services
Hewlett-Packard officials say they want to help enterprises shift more of their IT spending away from operations and toward innovation. HP is rolling out a number of products and services designed to enable businesses to reduce the operating costs in their data centers – through best practices and technology – so that more money is…
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Tablets Computers Must Get Cheaper to Succeed
Tablet devices such as the Apple iPad are expected to become “one of the most successful consumer electronic/tech products,” with 50 to 75 percent of consumers purchasing one within the next three years, according to a May survey by Boston Consulting Group. Noting that both single-purpose e-readers, like Amazon.com’s Kindle, and multipurpose tablet PCs, such…
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McAfee Looks to Offer Better Security for Virtualized Environments
Security specialist McAfee announced its strategy to advance the security options for virtualized environments that would provide stronger and optimized security controls helping customers maximize their current and future investments in virtualization. McAfee said it is currently developing a platform and application programming interface to provide a framework that will accelerate and address the specific…
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Setting Your Big Hairy Audacious Goal
We’ve been talking a lot about “Big Hairy Audacious Goal” – BHAGs, for short. For those not familiar, from Wikipedia: “The term Big Hairy Audacious Goal ("BHAG") was proposed by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their 1996 article entitled Building Your Company’s Vision. A BHAG encourages companies to define visionary goals that are more…