Recent Articles
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Dataguise Goes After Federal Market
The data discovery and data masking company Dataguise is heating up its federal focus with an announcement this week of a new vice president of federal sales that the company hopes will improve its position within the government sector. With more than 30 years of IT sales and senior management experience, Joe Marino has spent…
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Midmarket CFOs Lack Business Intelligence Tools to Do Their Jobs
As a direct result of the economic crisis of the last 18 months, chief financial officers at midmarket organizations have greater clout and decision-making power than ever before, and yet a dispiriting majority of them say they lack insight and access to the data they need to be effective. That’s the key finding of a…
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Dell Rolls Out New Business Laptops
Dell grew its Latitude family by three, with the introduction of the E6410, E6510 and E6410 ATG. While the Dell Latitude E6410 ATG is a semi-rugged laptop, all three notebooks offers Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors, high-speed DDR3 memory and energy-saving features. The Dell laptops are also equipped with either Windows Vista or Windows…
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Avaya Moves Full-Steam Ahead with Nortel Channel
Since completing its acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions in December, Avaya has been busy migrating both its own and Nortel’s channel partners to the new Avaya Connect partner program. According to Avaya’s channel lead, the company has already surpassed its goal of signing up Nortel partners for the program. When the acquisition was finished, Avaya’s…
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CA to Cut 1,000 Jobs as Focus Turns to Cloud
An internal CA memo announces the elimination of 1,000 jobs. The infrastructure-focused software company has been busy restructuring its business strategy around cloud products and has been in rapid-acquisition mode, having purchased three companies in 2010 already. Enterprise software company CA announced it will be slashing 1,000 jobs from its workforce at the end of…
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Growing Business Intelligence Demand Means VAR Opportunity
I’ve been on a gadget spree in the last few weeks, wrapping up two “home” projects as I write this. First, I’m redoing my home network, retiring the servers I had in my home and replacing them with a new Windows Home Server and a SheevaPlug, which will handle all the tasks that a virtualization…