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Sales and the 'Talent Magnet'
A lot is written about being a ‘Talent Magnet’, either as a company, or as President. It’s all good practice – listen, mentor, reward, provide clear goals and career maps. Good practice for the employer, but what about the employee?25 May 2011
Focus Area: Technology
Cases in Optimizing Data Centers for Energy Efficiency and Reduced Costs
By Upsite Technologies. It’s clear that data centers are the most energy intensive asset of most non-manufacturing companies. Research shows that a 40,000 ft2 data center can consume as much energy as 20,000 people. To look at it another way, while the acquisition cost for servers is declining, the Total Cost of Ownership for housing, powering, and cooling them has increased by 500 percent since 2000. Not to mention that 60 percent of the available cooling in a typical computer room is wasted due to bypass airflow (lost conditioned air).
Considerations for Creating a Collaboration Strategy
By Nexus. The CEO of a global biotech firm attended an offsite video conference last year and it was a great experience for him.
As Mobile Applications Grow More Strategic, Mobility Platforms Are Essential
By Sybase. On the heels of scores of tactical deployments, including one-off departmental applications and various pilot projects, enterprise mobility has firmly established itself as a strategic capability — a capability that must be managed, supported and secured as comprehensively and robustly as legacy components of organizations’ IT architectures.
What Is Purchase-to-Pay?
By Verian Technologies. Over the last few years, there has been a fundamental shift underway with regard to how organizations manage their spending. Simple purchase order systems are being replaced by “best-of-breed” systems that capture and manage 100% of non-payroll spending in a single database.
Defining the Cloud: A Sunny Forecast for Cloud Computing
The shift to delivering IT through a utility model is poised to change the business technology landscape as we know it. Dan Chu, VP of Emerging Business at VMware, provides a strategic point of view on cloud computing and outlines VMware’s strategic view on the power of cloud computing and visualization to enable IT to deliver applications where they want them, when they want.
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