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Cisco Intros Next-Gen Video Conferencing, Collaboration Platform
Looking to create a complete video-enabled collaboration solution for the new millennium, Cisco today introduced a handful of new products and outlined how they would work together, enabling businesses to increase productivity and reduce travel. The announcements include nods to next-generation collaboration standards as well as providing an answer to those who have said that…
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IBM Woos Developers With Cloud Offerings
IBM on Friday unveiled two new cloud-based services aimed at software developers looking to build applications in the cloud. IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing consists of application lifecycle management tools made available as cloud services so that developers, partners and customers can access them on an as-needed basis to build and test…
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7 Ways to Drive Additional Revenue with Windows 7
With Windows 7 as the heir-apparent to the eight-year-old XP operating system (Vista? What Vista?), VARs are gearing up to lead their customers into the transition. For the smallest businesses, this will happen by default as their typical purchasing venues sell only Windows 7 machines. But the rest will rely on VARs to lead the…
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IBM`s Mid-Market Push
IBM is hell-bent on become the preferred technology and services provider for mid-market customers globally. And in true big-Blue form, they’ve focused thousands of people and a lot of money to get there. With nearly 25% marketshare across their broad portfolio in the mid-market globally, they’re starting to gain meaningfully broad traction in the sub-1,000-user…
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HP, Cisco Initiatives Highlight Data Center Convergence
Got unified computing? These days vendors are pushing these technologies—preintegrated storage, servers, networking and virtualization—in the form of products or reference designs as the answer for all that ails the data center. The message to customers is that these systems make things all work together more efficiently, saving management time, improving system functions and perhaps…
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Workshare Offers Workshare Compare for PowerPoint
Microsoft partners looking to add some incremental value to Microsoft Office sales, take heed. Workshare has introduced Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, software that tracks changes to Power Point presentations that have been edited and reviewed by users besides the author. It’s a need that’s on the rise. Workshare says that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations…