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Adventures in Data Center Energy Auditing
What’s the worst power and cooling data center environment ever? It may have been the one that Mark Melvin, CTO of Washington, D.C., IT solution provider ePlus and power and cooling specialist, saw. “It was in a boiler room, and it was raining outside. When the fan kicked on, it blew rain onto the racks,”…
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Coming to an Enterprise Near You: Consumer PCs
One of the changes that analysts and other observers are talking about as potentially a major trend for the next several years is the “consumerization of IT,” or end users buying their own technology and using it for work—laptops, smartphones, netbooks. A recent Gartner survey of enterprises showed that 10 percent of respondents said that…
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Avotus Roots Out Errant Telephone Charges
Ever find a discrepancy on your landline or cell phone bill? Most of us have. So imagine the cost to businesses that rely on telephony. On average, billing errors among carriers run between 5 percent and 8 percent. For enterprises that spend more than $20 million a year on telephony, errors amount to more than…
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Selling IT To Tomorrow’s Startup
What’s the startup of the future going to look like in the post-recession economy? Some VARs think that more companies will be looking to what amounts to an infrastructure-as-a-service model. Rather than pay for all the equipment as a capital expense, burning their scarce startup money, companies may instead choose to outsource all of that,…
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The No. 1 App Coming to the Cloud? Your PC
What’s the killer app for the cloud these days? If you ask one of the biggest data sourcing companies, TPI, which acts as matchmaker between outsourcers and outsourcing service providers, companies looking to cloud computing want to move something very basic out there – their PCs. “Companies are buying access to terminals for a lot…
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Polycom Sales Chief’s Insider View of the Cisco, Tandberg Combo
If anybody has insight into the sales and channel programs of the newly combined Cisco and Tandberg video conferencing operation, it’s probably Polycom’s new executive vice president of global field operations. Andrew Miller, who joined Polycom about three months ago, has served as an executive at Cisco and also as the CEO of Tandberg. “I’m…
