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IBM Announces New Cloud-Based Collaboration Services for Government
IBM has announced new cloud-based collaboration services to help U.S. federal government organizations adopt social computing. The new set of social collaboration services, delivered on IBM’s Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)-compliant Federal Community Cloud, addresses the administration’s drive to adopt a "cloud-first" policy which is designed to help the government improve its overall IT…
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Microsoft’s Windows Dominance At Risk
Microsoft s July 21 earnings call revealed one little tidbit that could have executives in Redmond reaching for the anti-anxiety medication: revenue for the company s Windows and Windows Live Division declined 1 percent during the most recent quarter, even as other divisions reported significant growth. It s hard to understate the importance of Windows…
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Microsoft Partner of the Year 2011 Network Competency Awards
Microsoft Partner of the Year 2011 Network Competency Awards Content Management Partner of the YearKnowledgeLakewww.knowledgelake.com Using SharePoint Server 2010 to create an enterprise scalable and comprehensive document imaging solution for searching, viewing, securing, routing and annotating mission-critical electronic content for one of the world’s largest producers of chicken, beef and pork, KnowledgeLake helped its client…
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Companies Grow From Adversity
Companies Grow From Adversity History shows that in the technology industry companies tend to grow from adversity as long as they have a solid foundation of products. Cisco has that, especially in its router and switching business. It wasn’t long ago that another company— Apple—was in an even more difficult position and overcame adversity. Maybe…
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Microsoft’s Windows Sales Decline, Business Division Grows
Microsoft offered strong quarterly results, but one of its revenue pillars — the long-running Windows franchise — experienced a slight decline. The company reported revenue of $17.37 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 2011, an 8 percent increase from the year-ago quarter. Quarterly operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share were…
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VMWare Q2 Profit Nearly Triple Last Year’s Second Quarter
Enterprise virtualization software provider VMware (NYSE:VMW) posted an impressive quarterly earnings report July 19, nearly tripling its profits over the same quarter a year ago. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s net income for the second quarter of 2011 was $220 million, compared with $75 million in 2010. VMware’s revenue in its fiscal Q2 climbed to…