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Will Microsoft Tax Dispute Change Cloud Computing?
Microsoft may be doing a forklift move of its new 470,000-square-foot data center in Quincy, Washington after state regulators declared the facility is not qualified for tax exemptions intended for manufacturing facilities. Data Center Knowledge reports that Microsoft is threatening to move the facility designated to host the Azure cloud-based operating system and application services…
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Taking the Fast Track to Custom Data Center Deployments
The words "quick and easy" don’t typically come to mind when one thinks about data center deployment. But as more companies and organizations are building out data centers and consolidating servers, the need for simplification has probably never been greater. Looking for a simpler way and something that is now on the GSA schedule, solution…
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New Data Recovery Service Targets Apple VARs
Kroll Ontrack today targeted Apple VARs with a new product that will offer Apple partners more control over the data recovery services they can offer to customers. The new Data Recovery Portal for Apple offers Apple Service providers a way to easily track data recovery service and ensure warranties remain intact when outsourcing data recovery…
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Will Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Make Bing the Next Big Thing?
With less than a 10 per cent share of the online search market, Microsoft’s Bing search engine would have a long way to go to catch up with its biggest competitor, Google, which has at least 70 per cent of the search market share. Microsoft is taking a new approach by partnering with Yahoo!, a…
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CompTIA and MTCPerformance Partner On Membership Discounts
A partnership between CompTIA and MTCPerformance will offer discounts on incentive community Spiffs.com to CompTIA members and discounted membership in CompTIA for MTCPerformance customers. CompTIA gets a lot of member feedback regarding strategies and best practices they can use for their sales personnel, so the partnership with MTCPerformance will offer them a discount on an…
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IBM to Double Consulting Staff in China
By Michael Wei and Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING (Reuters) – IBM (IBM.N) plans to double the size of its new consulting team in China to help a growing number of firms that want to emerge from the global economic crisis stronger and more international. Frank Kern, president of Global Business Services (GBS), IBM’s consulting arm, told…