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Reduce Costs With Good Systems Management Practices in Hard Economic Times

As budgets are being slashed, IT is still expected to do more with less to support the business. With good systems management practices in place using products from Symantec such as Altiris Client Management Suite, IT professionals can reduce overall costs of owning PCs throughout their organization. This webcast will...

Tags: Economic Times, Symantec Corp., Information Technology, Systems Management, It Services, Network Administration, Networking

Webcasts 2009-09-01

Momentum Webcast: The Value of Premier Services in Tough Economic Times (Level 100)

In today's economic climate, one needs to maximize the IT resources to maintain mission-critical systems and create business value. Microsoft Premier Support helps to maximize the availability and efficiency of the IT infrastructure, reduce the risks, and improve the IT staff's productivity. The attendee will learn more about how the...

Tags: Economic Times, Webcast, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2009-05-07

Getting Past Fear & Anxiety: 5 Best Practices to Manage Through Challenging Economic Times

This paper is aimed at small business owners interested in increasing revenues and productivity during the downturn. Special attention is paid to how to make technology work harder for one during the downturn. This paper provides specific how-to advice for each best practice cited so that readers can immediately implement...

Tags: Economic Times, Best Practice, Manage Inc., Downturn, AMI-Partners

White papers 2009-04-17

Marketing During Tough Economic Times: How to Get Your Marketing to Generate More Sales

This paper is aimed at small business owners interested in learning how to radically improve their marketing to increase sales. Special attention is paid to best practices that will help one increase marketing effectiveness while saving money and time through the use of in-house printing solutions including: printers, PCs, web-based...

Tags: Economic Times, Sales, AMI-Partners, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2009-04-17

IT Management in Tough Economic Times

Every small and midsize business knows what these are: manually upgrading applications, applying patches, provisioning servers, fixing the same problems over and over. All too often, IT organizations find themselves caught up in a cycle of service and support that is anything but efficient. But in tough economic times, the...

Tags: Economic Times, IT Administration, Information Technology, Provisioning, Server, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-03-17

A shrinking Satyam

The stakes are growing as uncertainty continues Satyam is another services firm with some retention issues: employees and clients. Let’s start with the client erosion issue first. Satyam apparently had around $2 billion/year in revenues. Of course, that number may change due to the...

Tags: Economic Times, Satyam, Financial Planning, Insurance, Operational Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-22

In These Economic Times, How Can Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Help You Protect Confidential Information?

When the economy creates a challenge for companies, they might look to reduce costs or evaluate hiring strategies. If a company is looking to reduce its workforce, how has it prepared to protect its intellectual property, customer and employee data? Recent research has shown that employees who fear losing their...

Tags: Economic Times, Symantec Corp., Data Loss, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Intellectual Property, Security, Human Resources, Research & Development, Business Operations

Webcasts 2009-02-19

Network Infrastructure Enhancement Solutions for Uncertain Economic Times: Smart Choices Help Improve Efficiency While Managing Costs

Businesses are facing economic challenges and need to find ways to make smarter choices while cutting costs. Many small and medium sized companies are finding innovative ways to upgrade and enhance their IT infrastructures for critical, profit-center activities even though budgets are tight. Some are even cutting costs by swapping...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Economic Times, Network Infrastructure, Network, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology

White papers 2008-12-01

IT Strategies for Uncertain Economic Times: How Microsoft Delivers High-Value Solutions at Low Cost to Help Organizations Improve Productivity, Accelerate Agility, and Reduce Costs

Even in uncertain economic times, leading organizations recognize that investing in Information Technology IT is a key differentiator that can help improve productivity, accelerate agility, and reduce costs. Intended for IT leaders and procurement professionals, this paper describes how Microsoft, with a long history of delivering high-value solutions and market-leading...

Tags: Economic Times, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Purchasing & Procurement, Leadership, Management, Business Operations

White papers 2008-12-01

Increasing Profitability During Tough Economic Times

All eyes are glued to the global economy right now. This obsession started in the U.S., but quickly seeped throughout markets worldwide as economic weaknesses escalated internationally. And now companies are looking for cost-cutting measures that enhance - not hinder - their business. One of the biggest financial hits that...

Tags: Economic Times, Mobile, DiVitas Networks, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2008-11-13

Budget Adjustments for CIOs in Lean Economic Times

CIOs have faced lean economic times with regularity over the past four decades, and they will inevitably face lean times again - it isn't a question of whether they will happen but when. Forrester advises CIOs to base budget cuts on the impact to the business and to IT productivity,...

Tags: Economic Times, CIO, Adjustment, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-03-28

Additional Resources

East Anglia: some new angles, but no arrests for hacking

Investigation..."If the Republicans regain control of the Senate any time soon, you can expect a full-blown Inhofe-fuelled investigation."Horrors! Imagine that, someone actually wants to INVESTIGATE to see if the "science" of global warming holds water pardon the pun? You mean people actually want to KNOW if these drastic changes to...

Tags: Blogging, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Junkscience, East Anglia, e-mail, hacking

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Who wants tea with their turkey?

Push comes to shove.....I still believe Reid will throw down the reconciliation card. I'm sure he doesn't want to, but he won't accept defeat. If he can't get the sixty, he'll settle for 51.Which is a shame, because while the stated goals of this bill are admirable, in...

Tags: Vertical industries, GOP, Dana, Lieberman Software Corp, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Is Wikipedia maxed out?

Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...

Tags: Wiki, Achilles, Wikipedia, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?

Cost of computingCompanies will utilize this to get rid of expensive license models of Microsoft flavors.Hardware costs are...not the biggest problem. Bandwidth is what is ridiculously high. To get into anything with high enough upload speeds will set you back plenty. Some cable companies are offering decent speeds in the...

Tags: Intellectual property, cloud provider, Hardware Costs, Desktop computing

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?

Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...

Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

An interesting exchange on politics and IT

Was just thinking about thisExcept I was thinking about what I've heard Linux advocates say in the past, that most consumers make dumb technology choices, and whether this squares with advocating for free markets? Yes, I think it does. People will buy products that they can relate to and feel...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, information technology, Linux, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?

Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2009-11-12