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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…
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Balancing Act: Do Core Products Suffer When Vendors Seek New Markets?
Breaking ground on new and emerging technology areas is what keeps this industry alive and kicking. Yet established, market-leading technology vendors face a tricky balancing act when they set their sights on new frontiers. At the same time they are opening their wallets and committing their engineering teams to innovate the next best thing, companies…
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Heartland Gets Social with Facebook
You probably knew this already, but Facebook isn’t just for students anymore. Increasingly business people are using it to stay in touch with one another. And businesses have created fan pages for themselves and their technologies. This point hasn’t been lost on Heartland Technology Solutions, a solution provider in the Midwest. Chief operating officer and…
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EMC Jumps into Professional, Managed Services
EMC Corp. says its’ full range of new consulting, implementation, education and managed services, dubbed EMC Global Services, is designed to integrate VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager into customers’ EMC business continuity environments to automate recovery of virtual environments. Moreover, EMC’s Velocity ASN partners can offer their own value-added services in the mix. "The new…
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Qwest, IBM Ink Managed Services Deal
In yet-another sign that IT is truly destined to be a service, IBM and Qwest inked a deal this week that will enable Qwest to offer its mid-sized business customers a host of managed services spanning security, remote monitoring and unified communications. The five-year agreement between the two companies enables Qwest to offer a number…