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HP Users Urge Oracle to Continue Intel Itanium Support
Hewlett-Packard’s largest user community is the latest group urging Oracle executives to reconsider their decision to discontinue support for Intel’s Itanium platform. In a statement released April 13, the board of directors of the HP user group Connect said it would continue to support HP and Oracle customers running applications on Itanium-based systems despite Oracle’s…
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Cisco, Verizon Move UC Cloud Service to Beta Testing
Cisco Systems and Verizon in July 2010 kicked off field tests of a hosted unified communications service built around new offerings from Cisco. That partnership evolved further last month, when the two businesses unveiled their Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service offering during the Enterprise Connect conference. At a recent briefing for analysts and…
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IBM to Offer Business Process Management Consulting Services
LAS VEGAS – IBM announced a new global consulting and services practice to help companies improve the performance of core business processes such as marketing, human resources and finance, as well as industry-specific processes such as insurance claims, campaign management and compliance. Announced at the IBM Impact 2011 conference here, the new IBM Business Process…
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Selling Your Business: Preparing a Post-Acquisition Landing Strategy
When IT solution provider mergers and acquisitions go down, most business owners undergoing a buyout have thought through the valuation details, they’ve planned for how their customers will continue to be satisfied under a new regime and they’ve made sure their employees will be taken care of. But often they forget to plan for one…
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Selling Your Business: Finding the Right Fit
With so many experienced IT solution provider leaders fast approaching retirement age and the competitive landscape of the technical services market evolving, it stands to follow that over the next decade many entrepreneurs in this field will be seeking to cash out on their investments or grow their businesses through mergers and acquisitions. But before…
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Worldwide PC Shipments Hurting
PC shipments worldwide totaled 84.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011, a 1.1 percent decline from the first quarter of 2010, according to preliminary results from IT research firm Gartner. Although the first quarter is traditionally a slow one for PC sales, these shipment results indicated potential sluggishness, not just a normal seasonal…