May 21, 2009
HP’s servers and storage hit a wall in Q2
The Register
Timothy Prickett Morgan writes about HP’s Q2 2009 results, which closed in April.
“The company’s Enterprise Storage and Server group … posted $3.46 billion in sales in the second fiscal quarter, down 27.7 per cent from the same period a year ago. The drop in sales and the cut-throat competition in the server and storage racket has eaten mightily into profits.”
The year of the shift to Enterprise 2.0
ZD Net
Dion Hinchcliffe takes a closer look at the security concerns that are associated with social computing.
“Concerns about the security issues with social computing is high, around 80 per cent. A new survey from Deloitte, also released yesterday, showed that Web 2.0 and social engineering security concerns are at an all-time high. Pretexting and phishing are now widely regarded as a serious threat to most organization’s information security.”
Your Survival Depends On One Key Person’s Focus
The VAR Guy
Stuart Crawford writes why it’s important to be a trusted business advisor to customers.
“Business owners who still baffle their prospects or clients with technical jargon and convoluted solutions will struggle to win new clients and keep existing business over those who truly put themselves in front of as trusted business advisors. A business advisor who invests the time to learn about their prospect/clients’ businesses and design a solutions that meet and even exceed their business needs.”
