Author: enews

For small businesses, effectively managing technology comes with a question: Is it better to outsource or stay in-house? Most small and midsize companies can’t afford to employ teams of full-time IT staffers. This creates a desire for outsourced solutions. However, opting for a third party means giving up a measure of control. What is best for your business? In this post, we offer a quick rundown of the top five tasks any small business should consider outsourcing: The Cloud According to MarketWatch, while 64 percent of business owners are aware…

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The promises of adding social media are appealing to many companies that desire an automated approach to monitoring their customers’ posts, blogs, and tweets about the businesses. Adding social listening to any customer relationship management (CRM) solution seems to be a natural progression of the direction CRM software was heading, but many decried the solution as intrusive and a potential violation of their customers’ privacy rights. Nevertheless, the technology has advanced and matured to the point where many companies are once again considering it to help them not only gain…

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Cisco, Intel, IBM and HP are bridging virtualisation and the software-defined data centre “Composable infrastructure” is a term you’re about to start hearing a lot more, and the good news is that while it is marketing jargon behind the shiny is pleasing advances in server design that will advance server virtualisation and private clouds. The new term has its roots in server virtualisation, which is of course an eminently sensible idea that anyone sensible uses whenever possible. Intel and AMD both gave server virtualisation a mighty shunt forward with their…

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EMC and VMware will funnel hybrid cloud services into their co-owned Virtustream brand EMC and VMware have announced plans to unify their cloud businesses under the single banner of the Virtustream brand. The move comes just a week after the announcement that Dell is to buy EMC for $67 billion, when it was also stated that VMware would remain a separate, publicly traded company. Virtustream – which EMC itself acquired for $1.2 billion in May – will incorporate Virtustream’s existing cloud offerings, EMC Information Infrastructure and VMWare services such as vCloud Air…

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When you’re busy trying to run and grow a business, it seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. You may have the best intentions of sitting down for a strategy planning session, but paperwork, emails, and client calls can quickly eat up the day. Before you know it, the day is gone and that strategy planning session has been moved to tomorrow’s to-do list. It’s a vicious cycle, and one you’ll never get out of unless you actively work to change it. Instead of…

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