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Gartner Survey Find Positive Software Spending in 2010
Although organizations are continuing to drive down their total IT budgets in 2009 from 2008, in 2010 worldwide software budgets will increase, according to a survey by Gartner Inc. The survey showed that organizations plan to increase their software budgets on average 1.53 percent in 2010. In its report dubbed, report "User Survey Analysis: Software…
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Intuit Evolves Beyond Packaged Software
Intuit has come a long way from the days of shrink-wrapped QuickBooks. Last October, the personal finance software maker jumped on the software-as-a-service bandwagon with the Intuit Partner Platform, a cloud-based platform that serves up its applications and those from third-party partners to small business customers. The company also unveiled Federated Applications, a native stack…
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Health Care Unprepared to Secure Digital Health Records
A new report on the state of security within health care shows that these organizations are unprepared to meet the increased risks to their information in the wake of coming requirements by the federal government to push adoption of digital patient records. Released last week, the 2009 Global Security Study for Life Sciences and Health…
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Koutavas Named President of ASCII Group
The ASCII Group, a collaborative community of solution and service providers, announced this week the promotion of Jerry Koutavas to president. Koutavas has served as the organization’s vice president of business development for more than a decade and has been a driving force behind ASCII’s annual Success Summits series—local and regional training and networking events…
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Intel Sees No First-Time PC Buyers for Netbooks
(Reuters) – Intel Corp said on Wednesday it no longer expects netbooks to appeal to first-time computer buyers, but sees continued sales of the ultra-portable laptops as a secondary machine or a durable option for kids. "I don’t think first-time buyers are going to buy netbooks," Sean Maloney, Intel’s general manager of sales and marketing,…
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McAfee Sports MSP Status After MX Logic Buy
McAfee agrees to buy security vendor MX Logic for $140 million to bolster its software-as-a-service business. The deal follows McAfee’s recent announcement that it will be looking to expand its SAAS footprint among enterprises. McAfee announced July 30 that it has agreed to purchase security vendor MX Logic for $140 million to help build out…