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Axcient Melds Appliance, Cloud for Data Backup
The impetus behind storage startup Axcient came from an unlikely source – while working for another startup, Axcient’s now-CEO Justin Moore’s laptop crashed. While technology failures usually are more cause for irritation than innovation, the experience of having to send his laptop—and all the business data it contained—to an offsite recovery specialist and wait weeks…
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Replacing Desktop PCs with Zero-Client Solutions
With zero-client computing, what’s old is new again. The whole idea is to move computing back to the data center and away from the desktop. A zero-client environment is often less expensive and easier to deploy and manage. Its trio of possibilities is not lost on solution providers and IT directors. Channel Insider’s Guide to Zero…
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Fed’s Digital Health Records Plans in Doubt
Technology resellers and service provides say they’ve seen little slowdown in IT spending by health care institution, hospitals and clinics, according to the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse Report. And many solution providers servicing the health care market anticipate windfalls as the Obama administration plans to pump more than $19 billion to modernize health care…
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Google Changes Compels Search Strategy Changes
Google is changing the way it returns search queries, giving users the ability to make more defined searches with longer strings and providing results with more information to make site selections. The changes may force rethinking search engine optimization and online marketing strategies. "We’re constantly looking for ways to get you to the Web page…
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Colbert`s NASA Win Demonstrates Messaging Power
Colbert Nation is simply too big for Planet Earth. In a bid to get the new module of the International Space Station named in his honor, faux political commentator Stephen Colbert has flushed his competition out of the proverbial airlock in an online NASA naming contest. The host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” received…
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Asus, IBM-Lenovo Top Notebook Reliability Ranking
If you are looking for a reliable notebook PC, Asus and IBM/Lenovo may very well be your best choices, not Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell or Sony. That’s according to the most recent Computer Reliability Report from Rescuecom, based on 15,000 consumer service calls throughout the first quarter of 2009. The rise of Asus and IBM/Lenovo is…