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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…
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Tech Giants in Acquisition Frenzy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Technology firms are kicking off a new wave of mergers and acquisitions as cash-rich makers of hardware, software and everything in between position themselves for economic recovery and reach into new markets. The movement toward mobile computing, the increasing importance of data storage, and the use of the Internet to access…
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Greg Spierkel, CEO
Greg Spierkel, CEO Just 13 years after he joined the company and five years after being elevated to CEO Ingram Micro’s Greg Spierkel seems a fixture at the giant distribution company and in the IT industry. He leads a business of about 13,750 workers in 36 countries. Spierkel’s resume includes a stint as president of…
