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Microsoft’s Ozzie Sees Lower Margins from Cloud
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services — broadly known as cloud computing — would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company’s existing software business. "The margins on services are not like the margins on software, so it (cloud computing) will increase our…
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Who’s Watching Your Online Reputation?
There has been a lot of discussion about how businesses and individuals need to participate in social networks to get their messages out, but there is little discussion related to managing online reputation. Vehicles such as Angies List, Facebook and YouTube are prime locations for your customers to share their positive or negative experiences related…
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Cisco’s New Servers: What’s Different from the Rest?
Given the precipitous drop in net-new server sales during this recession, Cisco’s launch into the entry-level rack mount space this week seems somewhat counterintuitive. Especially at the commodity level, a market segment that doesn’t offer much margin and is already saturated with volume-based products from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM. Indeed, IBM has begun moving away…
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EMC Presses Forward with Hostile Bid for Data Domain
The "love triangle" involving data storage competitors NetApp and EMC and the object of their affections, storage systems and deduplication provider Data Domain, took a second turn June 3 when the Data Domain board of directors unanimously accepted a revised $1.9 acquisition offer from NetApp that it had received earlier in the day. However, EMC,…
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Apple Plans First East Coast Data Center
(Reuters) – Apple plans to invest up to $1 billion over the next nine years to build a data center in North Carolina. The data center would represent Apple’s first on the East Coast of the U.S., said Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren. Lundgren said Apple is not commenting on how the data center will be…
