Recent Articles
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Who controls IT? The CFO
Is IT management at the top of the corporate ladder losing its luster? Not completely, but was it ever really there? Call it business alignment or bottom-line buffering, a good lot of CIOs do not have the direct ears of CEOs. A chunk of technology leaders in enterprise companies report to CFOs (42 percent), according…
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Is the Economy Improving?
Just over a third of nearly 4,000 workers believe the economy is improving and just over 40 percent are confident they can find a new job, according to a study conducted by staffing firm Technisource. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company tracks IT worker confidence and reported last week that it is slightly up at an…
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Skype Disrupts Enterprise Video Collaboration
Skype reportedly will be rolling out a new function that will let up to five people participate in a video call at the same time, a capability that will let it counter the video conferencing capabilities of such vendors as Cisco Systems and Polycom. In an interview with the Associated Press, Neil Stevens, general manager…
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A Plan for Business Success
Recently I went down at the HTG Summit in Dallas—four days of deep dives into my business, my colleagues’ businesses and training sessions related to becoming a better businessman. The free sharing of ideas is what draws me most to these events, allowing me to really learn more about our industry and business, and do…
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Ex-President of HP to Head Cisco, EMC Data Center Initiative
Former HP President and Compaq CEO Michael Capellas will lead the Cisco, EMC and VMware effort to change the architecture in data centers with the technology to ease deployment of private clouds. The move comes as the war between Cisco and HP to dominate the evolving virtualized data center has escalated on all fronts. Capellas…