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Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:46 AM

New Executive Corner Videos

We are enjoying getting feedback from you about technology overall as well as our products. This is great information to share with everyone else out there to help get those different perspectives. We really appreciate it and I have uploaded two new videos
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:06 AM

Businesses see smart phone use rising, survey shows

The survey found that the number of smart-phone devices will grow about 30% in the next year and will have doubled over three years. The use of business applications on smart phones is also projected to grow, by 71% over one year and 196% over three years.
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:18 PM

Executive Corner Videos – Find out what other executives are saying.

We have been out talking to you during our Momentum events, and we appreciate you taking the time to give us your opinion. Listen to what others are doing in their environment at our Executive Corner on the www.msmmevents.com page here . Please be sure
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:23 PM

What does the Current Economy Mean for IT?

According to a recent Computerworld article: " Caution, not expansion, will likely be the business direction at many companies, affecting IT as well as other departments." The article goes on to explain that IT managers need to build a case for funding
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 6:32 PM

Who's Getting ROI from Cloud Computing Now

According to recent Cloud Computing Symposium, there are four types of cloud computing users and the driving reasons for their use of the cloud: Startups (cheap infrastructure, low investment) Entertainment (highly scalable, temporary systems; think movie
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Friday, October 17, 2008 10:44 PM

Social Networking is Going Corporate

As I was reading newspapers this past week, I came across a great article that gave some good insight as to how businesses are adjusting in order to continue to be successful and keep their workforces "together". Internal social networks makes sense as
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:11 PM

On Demand Webcast: Understand Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: From the Data Center to the Desktop

Attend this webcast to learn about the unique and comprehensive virtualization strategy Microsoft provides for server, presentation, application, and desktop virtualization. We discuss and demonstrate how organizations can consolidate workloads to streamline
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:50 AM

CIOs Trim Spending, Desktops Make a Comeback and More

Beset by challenging economic conditions, one in four CIOs is facing budget and staffing cuts, according to new research from CIO . Read More…
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Monday, August 18, 2008 6:02 PM

How Companies Are Building a price-to-value Relationship for IT Services

Mark, with CIO Magazine, gives good insight on how companies are going about running IT as a business within the business. Chargebacks are great ways to build that price-to-value relationship for IT services. Different models can be used to drive more
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:14 PM

What are the Top IT Priorities?

According to The Wall Street Journal , "server virtualization" and "consolidation" top the list. We will be discussing virtualization in our next series of events, starting in August. http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/07/14/tech-departments-cutting-back-on-big-projects/
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Friday, June 20, 2008 1:05 AM

More on Tomorrow’s CIOs

InformationWeek surveyed 720 senior business technology executives; 537 CIOs/VPs of IT and 182 corporate managers. Here is some of the insight that came of that survey. (The first percentage is the response from CIOs/VPs of IT , and the second percentage
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Friday, June 20, 2008 12:51 AM

Tomorrow’s CIO Survey

InformationWeek conducted a survey of 720 senior business technology executives. The question posed to these executives was "What are the most important CIO attributes?" Guess what the top 10 responses were from the survey. Starting from number 10, here
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Monday, June 16, 2008 10:55 PM

IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage

George Westerman was our guest at our IT Leadership Summit events these past months. I want to thank him for making the time to spend with all of you and the great information provided during and the conversations that came of the event. If you missed
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:29 PM

Gartner: Ninety Percent of Virtual Worlds Projects Fail

As if I wrote the article myself, but I did not, we mentioned today at our launch event about the necessity of the innovation to work the way our users work and expect. Don't let your users be an afterthought. Gartner predicts that 9 of 10 businesses
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Friday, May 09, 2008 10:01 PM

Microsoft Gets Gartner’s Business Intelligence Top Ranking

This tie into the post from a few weeks ago about Microsoft being placed in the leaders quadrant in the way of business intelligence. Per the article, Business Objects and Cognos have long been considered the leaders in business intelligence platforms.
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