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Arranged Marriage for IT, Facilities as Power, Cooling Come to Fore
Image via Wikipedia Power and cooling and IT naturally go together, right? They directly impact each other, sure. And they ultimately should be managed together. But at most companies those functions have typically fallen under the purview of two different departments, reporting to different business leaders with different objectives and different perceived value to the…
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Cisco CEO: Video the Killer App, Cisco CRS-3 the Conduit
Cisco has developed a new carrier-grade routing system that it says will form the foundation of the future Internet, capable of delivering enormous quantities of data at very high speeds, enabling widespread delivery and use of high-quality video applications for businesses and consumers, among other functions. The networking giant announced the CRS-3 during a TelePresence…
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Google DocVerse Acquisition End Game: A Microsoft Office, Google Apps Bridge
Image via Wikipedia Can partners and customers hedge their bets in terms of creating pilot projects of Google Apps? Google’s acquisition of DocVerse last week makes it more likely than ever, offering the promise of enabling a bridge between Microsoft Office and Google Apps. (Google celebrated the year anniversary of its Google Apps channel partner…
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Google Acquisition Lets Microsoft Office Users Share Documents on Web
(Reuters) – Google Inc stepped up its assault on Microsoft Corp’s productivity software business with the acquisition of a small start-up company that allows Microsoft users to edit and share their documents on the Web. Google said on its company blog on Friday that it has acquired San Francisco-based DocVerse. Terms of the deal were…
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Office 2010 Set to Hit Businesses in May
Businesses will be able to purchase the full version of Office 2010 May 12, roughly a month before consumers get their hands on Microsoft’s next-version productivity suite. “For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 worldwide on May 12,” Jevon Fark, senior marketing…
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HP ProCurve Visionary Joins Brocade, Slams Cisco, HP Data Center Plans
Cisco and HP may be pushing their new monolithic architectures in the data center, but customers in that segment tend to “move in a much more cautious and judicious fashion,” according to John McHugh, the HP executive credited with building the ProCurve line into a billion dollar business. McHugh spoke to Channel Insider from his…
