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Technology Strategies to Help Enterprises Recover with the Economy
Are you and your enterprise customers ready to take advantage of the economic recovery? Do you have the right strategies in place? A recent report by experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers examined a number of strategies to help companies best position themselves for recuperation while the economy shifts upward in momentum. Several of these strategies have…
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CDC Software Cloud Goes Mobile via Servicepower Partnership
Enterprise application software vendor CDC Software has tapped SaaS-based field service and management provider Servicepower for its new offering, and inked a dual OEM agreement that would provide an expanded mobile and field service market opportunity into both customer bases. As part of the deal, CDC will embed Servicepower’s SaaS solution into its existing eCommerce…
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Ex-President of HP to Head Cisco, EMC Data Center Initiative
Former HP President and Compaq CEO Michael Capellas will lead the Cisco, EMC and VMware effort to change the architecture in data centers with the technology to ease deployment of private clouds. The move comes as the war between Cisco and HP to dominate the evolving virtualized data center has escalated on all fronts. Capellas…
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IBM Rolls Out Cloud IT Certification Program, WebSphere Enhancements
LAS VEGAS—IBM used its Impact event for SOA (solutions-oriented architecture) and BPM (business process management) to roll out more than 30 new products and services to the 6,000 partners that attended the conference here. As more customers and partners look to cloud computing as a potential answer to their IT headaches, IBM has valued the…
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The Cloud: Distribution`s Perspective
What is the role of distribution in the cloud world? That’s the question I posed to several distribution CEOs attending this week’s meeting of the Global Distribution Technology Council in New York. Not surprising, each of these chief executives has a different view of their role in the cloud, and their views are reflective of…
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Data Centers and Clouds to Add Huge Hard Disk Drive Capacity
A prominent IT researcher forecast May 3 that the hard-disk storage industry will be building and selling products at an unprecedented pace during the next five years. In fact, the world hard drive industry is predicted to deliver more than 300,000 petabytes of storage capacity through 2015 — mostly to enterprise data centers and cloud…