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IBM plans to spend $1 billion during the next three years on unified communications and collaboration, with its Sametime instant messaging and video- and Web conferencing application as the hub technology. The company is moving aggressively into the market versus Microsoft but needs to be wary of partners such as Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks, […]

12 Companies That Should Beware the Ides of March By eWEEK 12 Companies That Should Beware the Ides of March – VMware The company whose name has become synonymous with virtualization is riding high now, but both Microsoft and Citrix are determined to give away most of what VMware charges for today. 12 Companies That […]

Eight Questions to Ask When Evaluating SAAS Vendors Eight Questions to Ask When Evaluating SAAS Vendors – 1. Do you … 1. Do you guarantee system availability?Ask vendors to demonstrate that they are meeting their availability targets, and ask reference accounts if they have had any issues. Eight Questions to Ask When Evaluating SAAS Vendors […]

Top 10 Disruptive Technologies Affecting the Data Center Unified CommunicationsBy 2010, 80 percent of unified communications components will be purchased as part of a broader product suite. Unified communications functionality draws from five core markets, each of which is evolving toward convergence in its own way. The key markets are: voice mail; PBX (which is […]

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The Age-Old Printer Battle: Color vs. Black and White The day will surely come when there’s no choice in printers: There will be color and color. But today, its worth taking a fresh look at the pros and cons of color and monochrome printers. The results may surprise you. By M. David Stone The Age-Old […]

Twelve Things IT Managers Should Resolve to Do Eliminating carbon dioxide emissions is nice, but saving money is better. Replacing aging IT equipment with more energy efficient systems is one of the easiest ways to get the capital expense budget to pay for itself. Twelve Things IT Managers Should Resolve to Do – Increase Storage […]

Peter Coffees Dec. 11 Epicenters column, “The Second Time Around,” [about PC vendors treating buyers as first-timers,] is without a doubt the most astute, common-sense approach I have ever read. I sure hope that some equally astute mail-order (or other) PC vendor has the good sense to read and apply this article. Im very old-school […]

In a back-to-the-future move, Avocent almost one year ago appointed Steve Daly general manager of its LANDesk Software Division. Daly was no stranger to LANDesk, having worked in Intel’s systems management business, which was later spun out to form LANDesk Software. Daly was in fact instrumental in Avocent’s 2006 acquisition of LANDesk as part of […]

New Years Resolutions for IT Pros IT professionals are not excited about a Vista migration. They fear end-user confusion and training required, memory issues and the inevitable applications that wont work on the largely overhauled OS. But this has to stop because the majority of business New Years Resolutions for IT Pros – 2. Go […]