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Technology Investments Yield Higher Profits, Study Says
MIT Sloan School of Management researchers on Friday released an IT management book based on a global study of 1,800 organizations that demonstrates what many solution providers and integrators have known for years: Smart IT investments equal strategic business assets to a company and increase margins, drive revenue growth and increase efficiencies. The business case…
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Managing the Mass of Clouds
You can’t open a browser without hitting some report on cloud computing. Every vendor—IBM, Microsoft, Google, HP, Cisco, Dell—either has or is launching a cloud computing initiative, which promises to deliver applications directly to users via the Internet. And that, frankly, has many solution providers nervous. Cloud computing has the potential for revolutionizing the way…
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Microsoft Makes Gains with Bing, Clashes with Google
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine won more market share from rivals last week, according to new industry data released on Wednesday, but still trails Google Inc and Yahoo Inc. Challenging market leader Google — which in turn is looking to break into Microsoft’s core software market — is a long-term project, said Microsoft…
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Could LG and NComputing Partnership Mean the End of Desktop PCs?
The seismic shift away from desktop PCs to laptops, netbooks and mobile device computing struck fear into the hearts of desktop PC hardware vendors, but a new partnership between global electronics vendor LG and desktop virtualization provider NComputing could completely eliminate the need for desktop PCs altogether. The partnership will create a low-cost, high-efficiency, all-in-one…
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Tandberg Takes Video Conferencing to Small and Midmarket Business
As travel budgets have been cut to the bone, plenty of companies large and small have been considering the benefits of implementing video conferencing systems, a technology that can help them realize the new business mantra, “do more with less.” And video conferencing does seem to be on the precipice of more widespread adoption, driven…