Tag: IT

  • Gates and Jobs Battle it Out in Top 10 Influencers

    Sara Driscoll

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    The battles between Microsoft and Apple have hit their CEOs, as the two companies’ respective chiefs were named the industry’s most influential personalities, top and second, respectively, of the past 25 years, according to a poll by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, claimed the top spot on the most influential… Read more

  • 14 Delivery Models Transforming IT

    14 Delivery Models Transforming IT

    Ericka Chickowski

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    The technology prognosticators at Gartner say the convergence of new IT delivery models will fundamentally transform the way businesses consume and interact with IT within the next three to five years. “In and of themselves, discretely defined, things like Software as a Service, grid computing and virtualization are important in their own disciplines within IT,”… Read more

  • VARs: IT Ready for Fall Back

    Jessica Davis

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    While March’s “spring forward” may have caught some by surprise, with many VARs and IT staff losing more than just one hour of sleep, when it’s time to change the clocks on Nov. 4, everyone will be ready. Just last year the U.S. Congress decided to extend daylight-saving time, moving the spring and fall switch-over… Read more

  • IT Skills Triumph Over Certifications

    IT Skills Triumph Over Certifications

    Deborah Perelman

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    IT certifications once had a guaranteed value. In the wake of the dot-com bust, large numbers of IT professionals stocked up on letters after their names to improve their job security and prove to their business departments that they had value. In return, they were paid at a higher premium for those letters. Years later,… Read more

  • Lloyd Group Offers IT Managed Care

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    The Lloyd Group is not a managed service provider. Co-founder, President and CEO Adam L. Eiseman won’t even let the staff of his New York-based solution provider use the words. “We banned ‘managed services’ from our vocabulary years ago,” Eiseman told audiences Oct. 15 at the Ingram Micro Venture Tech event, in Las Vegas, Nev.… Read more

  • HP to Offer IT Software Management Service

    HP to Offer IT Software Management Service

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Hewlett-Packard is offering its Business Technology Optimization portfolio as a service to help users better manage their software implementations—without actually having to implement a complicated management environment in house. The company announced Oct. 15 that it will offer its BTO portfolio in a SAAS (software as a service) model. BTO is essentially a compilation of… Read more