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Small Business Dogged by Essential But Unproductive Tasks
Small business communications company Fonality released the findings of the “2011 Report on UC and Cloud-based Services for SMBs” conducted by Webtorials. The study examined the productivity and communications challenges of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). Findings revealed that knowledge workers at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) spend 50 percent of their workday on necessary,…
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VMware Debuts Toolkits, Certifications at Partner Conference
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware announced new specializations, certification, solution competency and toolkits at the company’s annual Partner Exchange conference, designed to help partners deliver enterprise hybrid cloud solutions. In an effort to further increase partner revenue streams, VMware introduced specializations, certification and solution competency, including academic and federal specializations, desktop certification and virtualization…
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IT Certifications Grow in Hiring Importance: CompTIA Report
Employers are inclined to rely more heavily on professional certifications when hiring information technology (IT) workers, but are challenged by credential evaluation and validation issues, research from CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the information technology (IT) industry, suggested. The study indicated certifications would grow in importance as organizations seek to fill tech jobs. Among…
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Notebooks to Outstrip Desktop SMB Sales in 2011: Report
Preliminary data from IT research firm Techaisle shows 120.1 million PCs were shipped in 2010 to small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) (businesses with less than 1,000 employees)—a year-on-year growth rate of 10.4 percent. The bulk of growth rate came from emerging market countries, which reported a 16.5 percent increase. Mature markets, like Germany and the…
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VMware Launches Go Pro Cloud Service for Small Business
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions specialist VMware announced the general availability of Go Pro, a cloud service designed to enable small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to consolidate, control, and secure their physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Go Pro is available by subscription for $29.95 per admin/month, and the company said later this they expect to…
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Quantum Unveils DXi 2.0 Inline Deduplication Platform
Data backup, recovery and archive specialist Quantum announced the release of DXi 2.0, the company’s next-generation software platform for its DXi-Series disk backup and deduplication solutions. Offered at the same price as the DXi products with version 1 software, it creates a new inline data flow that is optimized for Quantum’s latest generation of purpose-built…