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The Biggest Disk Defragmentation Myths
Founded in 1981, Diskeeper Corporation is the technology innovator in performance and reliability technologies. The company’s products make computer systems faster, more reliable, longer lived and energy efficient, all with zero overhead. Inventors of the first automatic defragmentation in 1986, Diskeeper pioneered a new breakthrough technology in 2009 that actually prevents fragmentation. Diskeeper’s family of [...]
Full StoryWhich Programming Language Is Best? (Important Career Advice For Programmers and Developers)
Are you having trouble converting social media leads into paying customers? CoupSmart is an incredibly clever tool that lets you use coupon marketing with the “Insider’s Club” that is your social media contact list. In addition to being the current CTO of CoupSmart, Troy Davis is an experienced developer with a long list of successes [...]
Full StoryThe Difference Between MLC (Multi Level Cell) and SLC (Single Level Cell) SSDs (Solid State Drives)
MDL Technology, LLC is a Kansas City IT company that specializes in worry-free computer support by providing solutions for around-the-clock network monitoring, hosting, data recovery, off site backup security and much more. MDL Technology, LLC is dedicated to helping businesses place time back on their side with quick and easy IT solutions. Today, I’ll be [...]
Full StoryCRM Advice For Wholesale Telesales and Teleprospecting (B2B CRM)
Frank Hurtte is a a consultant, speaker and author of over 150 published articles and multiple books – including an ebook Telesales Prospecting for Industrial Distribution. His expertise is with wholesale distribution companies. These are people who sell things like electrical supplies, gears, belts, hydraulic machinery, automation, heating and air conditioning.. the list goes on [...]
Full StoryFuture CIOs and CTOs: The Secret To Creating And Executing A Winning Information Technology Career Plan
Mark Herschberg is a CTO who has hired over 100 people, interviewed over 1000, and taught career management to engineering students at MIT and mid-career people at SUNY. He also ran the Job Discussion section of www.JavaRanch.com (a 200,000 person website for software engineers). Mark knows what it takes to reach the highest levels within [...]
Full StoryAttract PC Repair Clients And Promote Your IT Consulting Business Using Game Shows
Ted Jordan has a Masters in Engineering from UC Berkeley, so he’s very strong in technology. Ted used to run a computer repair company called JordanTeam Computing LLC and would do a lot of presentations to promote his company. A Mom was impressed, and asked if he knew how to teach kids how to make computer [...]
Full StoryOptimizing And Personalising Online Customer Experiences Through Predictive Analytics
24/7 Customer is the pioneer in Predictive Customer Experience solutions. They help companies, with several thousand agents, to move their phone contacts to online through a unique integration of predictive SaaS technology and contact center operations. Consumers are constantly looking for smarter, better solutions, often getting frustrated that they could not solve their problem in [...]
Full StoryIBM Reveals Their Predictions About The Future Of Social Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Sandesh Bhat is the VP of Web and Unified Collaboration Software for IBM Collaboration Solutions. He has some unique insight into emerging trends in CRM. Particularly, how social media is changing the way businesses manage customer interactions. For more information on social CRM – including a recent study on the topic – you can visit [...]
Full StoryReal-World Artificial Intelligence Has Arrived: A ChatBot Can Automate Your Customer Service, Support and Interactions
eGain ChatBot™ is a lifelike, conversational virtual agent providing a unique, interactive and personal way for users to get answers and assistance on websites, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A customer simply chats with the chatbot, and it acts as a human contact center or sales agent, providing answers, processing data, and [...]
Full StoryCommunication Skills Are Vital For Success In An IT Career
Jim Anderson is a 25-year veteran of the IT industry. He’s worked at the big boys (Boeing, Siemens, Alcatel, and Verizon) as well as a number of start-ups. He was on the front line of that whole dot.com thing, and can provide some interesting insight into that time period. The main thing that he’s noticed [...]
Full StoryBenefits and Risks of BYOPC (Bring Your Own PC)
SoThin Thin client was created in 1999 by a small city-based IT consultancy, in response to a client’s request to use Thin Client systems. They’d just rolled out 50 new PCs for one of their clients and wanted to purchase Thin Client software instead of hardware dumb terminals. They approached all of the major Thin [...]
Full StoryFrequently Asked Thin Computing Questions (FAQ)
GoVirtual® is the industry leading provider of VMware training videos and VMware training courseware books and educational materials. Their VMware training products and services are some of the highest quality and most comprehensive available today. Thin client computing within virtualized environments is one of their training specialties and is something they’ve done recent consulting projects [...]
Full StoryBiggest Misconceptions And Misunderstandings About Software Patents
Woodruff & Black is a law firm based in Florida which focuses its practice primarily on Intellectual Property issues, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets and Technology Licensing. Today I’ll be interviewing Paden Woodruff, who received his Physics degree from the University of Florida and his law degree from Florida State University. Can you please explain [...]
Full StoryWhich Part Of Your Network Should You Optimize For The Best ROI?
Forsythe serve as a trusted, independent advisor, offering technology and business consulting services, technology leasing and products from leading IT infrastructure manufacturers. Today, I’ll be interviewing Kaulin Melnyk, District Manager of Sales for Forsythe Technology Canada. What advice can you give to companies that are experiencing slow network connectivity at their branch offices and other [...]
Full StorySoftware Developer Turned Patent Law Expert Makes The Case For Software Patents
Quarles & Brady LLP is a national law firm with offices in Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida and Arizona. Quarles & Brady LLP has a long history in intellectual property including patent prosecution and litigation in a large array of industries and disciplines. Their clients include major national and multinational corporations as well as large educational and [...]
Full StoryTips On How To Evaluate Managed Infrastructure Vendors
XIOLINK was founded as a fully-managed, high-end hosting company focused upon companies whose Internet presence was critical to their success. This included e-commerce companies, enterprises, etc. Back in 1999-2000 there were not any other companies focusing on fully-managed solutions on dedicated servers based upon the Microsoft Windows operating platform. So, they provided a very high [...]
Full StorySmarter Power Outlets That Communicate With Your Computer For Automated Energy Savings
NYC-based ThinkEco develops easy-to-use energy efficiency technologies for businesses and homes. It was founded in 2008 with the mission to change the face of energy efficiency through the smart use of technology. The problem they set out to solve was the increasing pool of energy waste associated with plugged-in electronic devices. With more devices in [...]
Full StoryHow To Optimize Your Datacenter To Reduce Energy Consumption By 60% Or More
Dimension Data is a specialist IT services and solutions provider that helps clients plan, build, support and manage their IT infrastructures. They were founded in 1983 and headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently, Dimension Data operates in 49 countries across six continents. Today, I’ll be interviewing Kris Domich, who is the principal data center consultant [...]
Full StoryWill Your Network Evolve To Meet Tomorow’s Bandwidth Requirements?
Evolve IP was founded in 2006 to change the way that organizations buy, manage and secure their vital communications technologies. At that time, there were multiple point solutions providers, but few integrated providers for all unified communications, including Managed Telephony, Managed Networks, Security & Compliance and Hosted Business Applications (such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and [...]
Full StoryOptimizing Your WAN And Minimizing Distance Induced Latency
Certeon is the application performance company. aCelera, Certeon’s suite of software WAN optimization products, delivers automated secure and optimized access to centralized applications for any user, accessing any application, on any device, across any network. With Certeon, enterprises and cloud providers successfully realize key initiatives, including consolidation, virtualization, replication and application SLA’s. Certeon’s aCelera is [...]
Full StoryGranola: The solution to your IT energy growing pains
Miserware set out to make power management software for the data center because they have a technology that guarantees performance while saving energy in those types of systems critical to the data center. Early versions only work on Linux and were designed for networks of servers. They had to test for every possible system, so [...]
Full StoryNew Medical Facility Designed For Energy Efficiency. In The Server Room and Beyond
St. Luke’s Magic Valley, a new state-of-the-art healthcare facility serving South Central Idaho will open its doors May 21, 2011. This 700,000 square foot, 186 bed, medical center offers all private patient rooms, designed to promote maximum patient comfort and quality patient care. Given that energy efficiency is such a hot topic within IT, I [...]
Full StoryThe Difference Between rsync, File-based and Block-based Deduplication
QuorumSoft was founded and their first generation of Alike software, was launched in 2008. The two founders, Max Ekstrom and Phil Baskette, shared a belief that a backup solution based on data deduplication had tremendous business potential. Working collaboratively, they developed the Alike solution, which addresses the need for quick and easy implementation and the [...]
Full StoryHow Cellular-Enabled Machine-to-Machine M2M Communications and Networking Will Change The Way You Live
KORE began operating in 2003 with the mission to be a pure-play machine-to-machine (M2M) network services provider on a global scale. The genesis of the company was their observation that traditional cellular carriers were not serving the M2M market need due to the fact that solution providers needed extensive roaming, with minimal ARPU for the [...]
Full StoryEffective Records Management – When Going From Millions To Billions Of Files
ZL provides cutting-edge enterprise software solutions for e-mail & file archiving for compliance, litigation support, corporate governance & storage. The Company started in 1999, and set out to solve very large scale messaging problems. The initial target was the carrier space, where green field opportunities presented in areas like ASP, ISP, and wireless carriers, where [...]
Full StoryCan Deduplication Really Reduce Data Storage By 95 Percent?
CA is a well-known world leader in the Enterprise IT Management Software space, and they have a lot of deep insight into the business issues surrounding deduplication. Today, I’ll be interviewing Frank Jablonski, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Data Management business at CA Technologies. Backup deduplication is a hot topic in IT right [...]
Full StoryPhishing Alert! Employees Using The Same Passwords Across Many Web Sites
OneLogin, Inc. is an on-demand single sign-on and identity management solution based in Santa Monica, CA. In short, they eliminate user-managed passwords. Their customers use on average 30-40 cloud applications. By using OneLogin, users can access all their web applications through their secure OneLogin Portal. While eliminating passwords contributes to greater ease-of-use, the ability for [...]
Full StoryDr. Robert Gehl Talks About The Future Of Anonymity, Net Neutrality And Web 2.0
Can you tell my readers about your background and your current role at U of Utah? I understand that you did your doctoral work on Web 2.0. Can you tell me a bit about this? At Utah, I am a professor of new media in the Department of Communication, and I work in two areas. [...]
Full StoryA First-Person Insider’s Perspective On Domain Seizures And The Future of European Online Regulation
BlacKnight Solutions is Ireland’s largest hosting company and domain registrar. They provide domain registration and a comprehensive range of website hosting solutions to clients all over the world. Clients range from hobbyists through small business to multinationals. Today, I’ll be interviewing BlacKnight founder Michele Neylon. How has the domain name business changed over the past [...]
Full StorySurvey: 80 percent of network managers adopting network automation tools
Stu Bailey founded Infoblox while doing academic research in the early 90s on large-scale computing networks, and specifically large data management problems. His hypothesis back then was that information management problems would manifest in the network, and he wanted to increase the reliability of networks as they became more strategic. Stu founded Infoblox with the [...]
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