Tag: data
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New Accounting Rules May Limit Usage of Hosting and Public Cloud Services
One of the major customer benefits associated with moving application workloads to either a public cloud or managed hosting environment is that it turns IT into an operating expense that makes their balance sheets look a lot better to investors. But over the next couple of years there are new accounting rules that may soon… Read more
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Taking the Performance Conversation to a Higher Level
There are a lot of specializations in the land of IT. Some of them are a little more artificial than others, but to one degree or another they help solution providers differentiate various services. But as IT becomes increasingly complex, it’s clear that additional tiers of computing are bringing new performance pressures to bear on just… Read more
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School District Solves Outdated PCs, Budget Cut Problems with Desktop Virtualization
Doing more with less is a challenge for every IT department, but for the organization facing a huge budget cut while being forced to continue operating with 2,500 out-of-date PCs, there’s an even greater challenge to overcome. This scenario was put in front of Presidio, a Greenbelt, Maryland-based solutions provider with offices and staff around… Read more
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Emerson Offers Avocent Data Center Planner
Emerson Network Power, a business unit of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) specializing in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, introduced the next generation of Avocent Data Center Planner, a software solution that helps enable data center managers to make informed decisions for the planning and effective management of their data center assets and physical… Read more
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Cisco to Leverage Routers, WAN to Connect Enterprises to the Cloud
Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the company s key differentiator. Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought services–such as security and collaboration–onto its Integrated Service Routers… Read more