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How to Use Smart Phones to Cut IT Total Cost of Ownership
IT departments can reap the benefits of a lower total cost of ownership for their mobile workforce by replacing their field and remote staff's laptops with mobile smart phones. Knowledge Center contributor William Anderson explains the benefits of moving field and remote staff over to smart phones, and offers nine best practices for IT professionals to follow when doing so.
- Most businesses today have field and remote staff who use laptops, cell phones and other mobile devices. The number of employees doing so is escalating dramatically. Enterprises will see a major increase in usage by years end, while small and midsize businesses will see a significant increase as wel...
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BlackBerry Storm Lacks Punch
RIMs BlackBerry Storm smartphone offers all the enterprise features that businesses have come to know and love and that Apples iPhone lacks. However, the Blackberry Storm is slow, and its keyboard is clunky, particularly compared with the iPhone.
- The BlackBerry Storm 9530 is Research In Motion's first smartphone to
dispense with a physical keyboard in favor of touch-sensitive display. As with
other keyboardless devices, such as Apple's popular iPhone 3G, the absence of a
physical keyboard in the Storm means more in the way of display spac...
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Ten Tactics to Get More from Your Data Center with Less Money
With data volumes growing at 60 percent to 70 percent per year (Gartner's educated guess), and power costs expected to increase by 15 percent (the power industry's educated guess), how does an IT manager make peace with the very real possibility that he or she won't be able to buy as much power and capacity this next fiscal year?
- Where to Start Cutting Data Center Power Costs
Here's a listing of ideas from Emerson Network Power that can be instituted immediately in virtually any data center.
Cover Your Bases. It may be more difficult to recover from an outage during tough economic times than during prosperous one. A re...
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Where to Start Cutting Data Center Power Costs
Current macroeconomic conditions will impact data center budgets -- along with everything else -- big time in 2009. It follows that data center and IT managers will need to get more from their facilities with less money available. Here's a primer on where to find the low-hanging fruit of power savings.
- Data center budgets, along with just about every other budget in the business world, are being evaluated for 2009 and undergoing more scrutiny than usual due to uncertain macroeconomic conditions.
So, with data volumes growing at 60 percent to 70 percent per year (Gartner's educated guess), and ...
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Enterprise Apps Maker Salesforce.com's Profit Tops Estimates
Salesforce.com reports quarterly profit ahead of Wall Street expectations, though the enterprise applications maker issued forecasts that were below most Wall Street projections. Shares in CRM, SAAS and cloud computing specialist Salesforce.com rise after the results.
- * Q3 EPS 18 cents, tops Street view 17 cents
* Q4 rev forecast $284-$285 mln, below Street
view $289 mln
* Q4 EPS forecast of 6-7 cents vs Street view of 7 cents (Adds analyst
comment, byline)
BOSTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) Salesforce.com
Inc reported quarterly profit ahead of Wall Street expectatio...
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