And so it's gone on, for some time. But now there's 70-630 Office 365: Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online unified onto a cloud platform available for between $2 and $27 per user per month. Supposedly, Office 365's backend infrastructure is also tougher and more reliable than its predecessor, BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), which had suffered some service outages in recent months. Does that mean it's time for the Google legions in Mountain View to start shaking in their collective boots?
Google certainly seems a little freaked out about it, launching a preemptive PR blitz ahead of Office 365's launch. "Office 365 is built for Microsoft. [Google] Apps is built for choice," Shan Sinha, Google Apps' product manager, wrote in a June 27 posting on the Official Google Enterprise Blog. "Office 365 is optimized for Windows-based PCs and devices, which reduces your flexibility. Our applications are designed to work well on any device, on any operating system."
Ballmer claimed Office 365 will give small- to midsize businesses an "edge" in competing, without the burden of complex on-premises systems. Indeed, most of Microsoft's promotional materials seem 70-630 angled toward that particular audience segment. That's unsurprising, considering how analysts have been telling me for months that Google Apps' presence is strongest in companies with relatively low headcount.
"Microsoft is struggling to show value given that Google is 70-595 preaching 'free,'" Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, wrote in a July 27 email. "They need to reeducate their market quickly, but don't see this as a marketing but a product problem, and are playing Google's game as a result."
For the substantial majority of companies, Office 365 likely won't wholly replace desktop-based Office anytime soon. Nonetheless, it's an ever-cloudier IT world out there.
Now that the feds have approved Microsoft's plans to acquire Skype, the difficult part's about to begin. If Microsoft succeeds, it's going to create an 800-pound gorilla in the VOIP/video-chat space--one that makes impressive amounts of money, to boot. If it fails, it'll mean the end of the Skype brand and a waste of $8.5 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Skype will become a Microsoft division headed by Skype CEO Tony Bates, with its services meshed with a variety of Microsoft products such as the Lync unified-communications platform, Outlook and Xbox Live. The incorporation of Skype's assets into those products represents a substantial challenge, even before you add Microsoft's determination to monetize its new toys.
"While Office 365 does put Microsoft in mortal combat 70-595 with Google," Matthew Cain, an analyst with Gartner, wrote in a June 28 email, "it is not really an existential threat for Google since Microsoft is essentially validating the model that Google pioneered with Google Apps."
Microsoft announced this morning that the next version 70-599 of the Windows Phone operating system, code-named Mango, has been delivered to manufacturers, which can begin testing it on their handsets.
The move is one of the final steps before the software arrives on new phones and is delivered to existing users as a software update. "This marks the point in the development process where we hand code to our handset and mobile-operator partners to optimize Mango for their specific phone and network configurations," Terry Myerson, Microsoft's corporate vice president of engineering for Windows phone, wrote on a company blog. "Here on the Windows Phone team, we now turn to preparing for the update process."
But according to some analysts, Office 365 isn't poised to conquer the cloud just yet.
Certainly the competition between Microsoft and Google has intensified in recent months. Tom Rizzo, senior director of Microsoft Online Services, insisted in a May 17 interview that businesses were trying Google's business-cloud offerings before shifting back into Microsoft's camp. Google executives took exception to Rizzo's assertions, arguing that Google remained the leading choice for businesses interested in cloud-based email and collaboration.
Skype's audience is used to paying little or nothing for VOIP and 70-599 video calling; if you change that, there's a significant chance they could run for the hills. If you lard up the Skype/VOIP experience with ads, you likewise risk alienating that core constituency--and sending them right into the loving arms of Google and Apple.
Since Apotheker took over eight months ago, the stock is HP0-M30 down 11 percent, compared with a 13 percent rise in the Nasdaq composite index.
The past decade has seen HP grapple with a messy takeover of Compaq, the controversial tenure of former CEO Carly Fiorina and a board spying scandal along with the ouster of Hurd.
HP's board too has seen major turnover and been harshly criticized over the years for the hiring and firing of Fiorina and the handling of a phone-tapping scandal in 2006.
Lane, a green technology enthusiast and investor, said he didn't seek to be on any public boards but was honored when the world's largest technology company by revenue asked him to join.
"I thought it needed the help," said Lane, who aims to contribute some of his entrepreneurial expertise and experience to return the former Silicon Valley icon to stability.
The last Kleiner Perkins partner to serve on HP's board was Tom HP0-M30 Perkins, a co-founder of the venture capital firm and previously a longtime HP employee.
IBM client Homeloans Management 000-560 Limited, a leading UK-based financial services firm, is using IBM software to improve business processes across its credit management, call center and customer mortgage departments. Market conditions and new regulations prompted HML to choose IBM to streamline and accelerate its existing business processes. HML needed an agile and flexible system that could be customized rapidly to meet ever-changing government requirements.
"We were specifically impressed with the enhanced installation capabilities and its heightened performance, both of which will be a great benefit to our entire organization," said Balaji Madala, IT Specialist, Department of Human Services, New Jersey.
Anticipating these storage challenges decades ago, researchers from IBM Research Almaden created GPFS to help businesses cope with the exploding growth of data, transactions and digitally-aware devices on a single system. Already deployed to perform tasks like backup, information lifecycle management, disaster recovery and content 000-560 distribution, this technology's unique approach overcomes the challenge of managing unprecedented large file systems with the combination of multi-system parallelization and fast access to file system metadata stored on a solid state storage appliance.
BM's new WebSphere Application Server is now 000-561 shipping, along with a range of new features for businesses. The new software helps clients accelerate the development and delivery of applications and services for mobile devices, cloud computing and social media.
Clients including Blue Cross Blue Shield, USAA, the State of New Jersey Department of Human Services and Homeloans Management Limited are using IBM business integration software to reach and support their customers.
"IBM has always believed that corporate design has to be purposeful," said Lee Green, vice president of Brand Experience and Strategic Design at IBM. "Design is not about cosmetics and decoration. It's about reflecting all aspects of our brand, from the solutions we provide to clients, to the corporate culture and values that permeate our organization." There are currently more than 100,000 companies worldwide gaining business benefits from IBM business integration software, including USAA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the State of New Jersey Department of Human Services and Homeloans Management Limited (HML).
"Businesses in every industry are looking to the future of storage and data management as we face a problem springing from the very core of our success managing the massive amounts of data we create on a daily basis," said Bruce Hillsberg, director of storage systems, IBM Research Almaden. "From banking systems to MRIs and traffic sensors, our day-to-day lives are engulfed in data. But, it can only be useful if it is effectively stored, analyzed 000-561 and applied, and businesses and governments have relied on smarter technology systems as the means to manage and leverage the constant influx of data and turn it into valuable insights."
CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJuly 19, 2011Apple? today announced 9L0-837 examination financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended June 25, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share.
These results compare to revenue of $15.70 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent compared to 39.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarters revenue.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
Standard Chartered Bank is an international bank with 1800 9L0-837 branches on six continents, dozens of recent industry awards, and steadily increasing profits through organic growth and acquisitions. iPhone and iPad provide a perfect platform to expand the banks mobile services, both internally and to its increasingly tech-savvy customers.
Just around that time, leadership of the schools technology 000-183 team was shifting and, according to Mr. Condon, Mr. Lanham set out to operate freely, putting in motion a scheme that would go undetected for years, though some people began having suspicions about him. He often met vendors alone and e-mailed them without giving copies to anyone at the Education Department.
The scheme developed in much the same way with every consultant Mr. Lanham hired and every subcontractor and vendor he coaxed into playing along, including I.B.M., the report said.
After Mr. Lanham was fired, the department said, it rolled out new safeguards against rogue consultants, including an in-house contract manager responsible for approving and monitoring purchases and payments and a unit charged with carrying out price and cost analyses for contracted services.
The federal complaint says that with the money he made, Mr. Lanham and his wife bought a Corvette, a Porsche and other equally expensive cars, and he tried his hand at real estate, building luxurious homes on a piece of land he owned on eastern Long Island.
Mr. Lanham was fired in 2008, roughly two years after Mr. Condons office received anonymous complaints that he was getting kickbacks from vendors. The investigators could not find evidence of kickbacks, but while checking the accusations, they discovered that I.B.M. had been billing the Education Department for work performed by consultants hired by Mr. Lanham without authorization. The case broadened in 2008, after a senior 000-183 director at the departments Division of Instructional and Information Technology accused Mr. Lanham of hiring consultants and having their work billed by Verizon.
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an 000-184 information technology (IT) company. It operates under five segments: Global Technology Services (GTS), Global Business Services (GBS), Software, Systems and Technology, and Global Financing. GTS primarily provides IT infrastructure services and business process services.
GBS primarily provides professional services and application management services. IBM's Software segment consists primarily of middleware and operating systems software.
IBM provides clients with business solutions requiring advanced computing power and storage capabi
lities. Global Financing invests in financing assets and 000-184 leverages with debt. During the year ended December 31, 2010, IBM acquired Intelliden Inc., National Interest Security Company, LLC, Cast Iron Systems, BigFix, Inc., Datacap Inc., Clarity Systems, BLADE Network Technologies, Netezza Corporation, Lombardi and Unica Corporation. In April 2011, it acquired TRIRIGA, Inc.
?Reduce processing time of research projects HP0-J52 from three days to one-and-a-half days by eliminating input/output bottlenecks. This enables researchers to rapidly access final information after the research process is completed. ?Simplify management operations from days to minutes with a centralized management interface that controls storage from a single location.
Hewlett-Packard is the world's largest technology company.
Primarily known as a maker of printers, the company is the world's top maker of PCs and has been tied with Dell for the lead in the United States.
Many organizations are facing challenges with enabling a growing virtual workforce, as well as interoperability issues caused by aging, inflexible telephony and network infrastructures and disparate communications systems. Gartner predicts that by year end 2015, 60 percent of organizations will offer employees at least four parallel, overlapping, voice/telephony options.(1)
As employees share information faster, they increase responsiveness to customers, partners and HP0-J52 across the organization, ultimately improving productivity.
Clients need to understand how changes to their HP2-E40 work environment can impact communications, said Rich Skoba, director, Global Unified Communications Portfolio, Technology Consulting, HP. By collaborating with HP, clients can leverage HPs methodology and testing of multivendor UC solutions to create their unique Unified Communications journey, transforming their communications infrastructure to address needs today and into the future.
We had an immediate need to replace an aging telephone Private Branch Exchange and voice-mail system to ensure timely, effective communication across our global net of offices and professionals, said Brad Vaughan, senior vice president and chief information officer, Black & Veatch.
With HP, we were able to replace our systems while modernizing with features such as instant messaging, improving communication across the organization.
Mr. Apotheker said he planned to use the companys relationships HP2-E40 with corporations that already bought its hardware and services to also sell them software and host their data so they could gain access to it from anywhere. Software, which has much higher profit margins than much of H.P.s hardware business, accounted for only 3% of H.P.s business when Mr. Apotheker took over.
In recent years, much of H.P.s growth has come by acquisition.
In April 2010, H.P. announced it would acquire Palm, the HP2-Z09 struggling cellphone maker, in a deal valuing the company at $1.2 billion.
While Palm had won acclaim for webOS, its new smartphone operating system, its new products like the Pre and the Pixi failed to draw customers away from rivals like Apple and Research in Motion.
HP is collaborating with leading industry vendors Microsoft, Avaya, Polycom and Alcatel-Lucent to bring together a comprehensive range of technology components for these three solutions. HP also offers a full range of consulting and support services for these partner platforms.
HP Unified Communications solutions help businesses and governments in their pursuit of an Instant-On Enterprise. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.
HP Network Readiness Services for UC coordinate network readiness HP2-Z09 with clients UC roadmaps and eliminate network barriers, enabling clients to achieve their enterprise communication goals.
The company had recently enjoyed a rare period of stability at its HP0-Y36 helm that came to an end on Aug. 6, 2010, when Mark V. Hurd, the company's chairman and chief executive, was ousted from his post. His unexpected departure followed an investigation into sexual harassment accusations made against Mr. Hurd by a former H.P. marketing contractor. While H.P.s board found no evidence of sexual misconduct, it concluded that Mr. Hurd had violated company policies, including fudging expense reports by leaving off the name of the contractor from dinners.
Mr. Hurd, who had served as chief executive since February 2005, had turned Hewlett-Packard into a computing and printing giant on the back of fierce fiscal discipline. Mr. Hurd had focused on fostering growth in three areas: outfitting and managing next-generation data centers, mobile technology, and printing in its broadest applications.
?Achieve greater return on investment by transferring large data sets in hours instead of days. The improved balance between capacity and performance is a result of intelligently sorting data using storage tiers. Keeping the more important data on the highest performing storage tiers allows professors to drive critical research even on a limited budget.
We wanted to implement a solution to enhance the student HP0-Y36 experience, support teaching excellence, reduce operational costs and drive new revenue streams through distance learning, said Steve Grive, director, Information Technology, University of the West of England. With HP, we are creating a centralized collaboration platform including SharePoint, Presence, IM, video conferencing and unified messaging supported by an enterprise voice solution and next-generation network to enable these outcomes.
H.P. took another leap on February 9, 2011, when HP3-034 it announced that it would introduce a new tablet, the Touchpad, in an effort to chase Apple and its iPad. H.P. also introduced two new smartphones, entering another market in which it has lagged. The products are the first based on technology from Palm.
In May 2008 H.P. bought Electronic Data Services, a technology services company, for $13.9 billion. After H.P. bought E.D.S., it immediately began hacking the work force. Led by Mr. Hurd, H.P. laid off 25,000 E.D.S. workers, cut the salaries of some by more than 20 percent and extinguished the 47-year-old companys name.
In September, Hewlett-Packard announced that Léo Apotheker would become its new chief executive and president. Mr. Apotheker served as chief executive of Germanys SAP, one of the largest business software makers, holding the position for only seven months before resigning in February 2010.
Mr. Apotheker announced a new strategy for the company HP3-034 in March 2011, saying that H.P. would build out its tiny software business and expand into the cloud a term used to describe products and services delivered online.
Our collaboration with SUSE not only helps customers to 70-663 achieve success today, but also seeks to provide them with a solid foundation for tomorrow, said Sandy Gupta, general manager of the Open Solutions Group at Microsoft.
Through our continued engagement on the technical side, an outstanding support offering from SUSE and our ability to provide mutual IP assurance, we feel confident that we will be able to deliver core value to those running mixed-source IT environments well into the future and into the cloud.
Microsoft and SUSE also have driven significant opportunities for partners that have leveraged the companies collaboration as a means of meeting their own customers demand for interoperability. Companies such as Dell Inc. have benefited as both a customer and reseller of Microsoft and SUSE solutions.
In addition, SHI International Corp., a leading U.S.-based reseller of software, hardware and services, and Adaptive Computing Enterprises Inc., a premier workload management independent software vendor serving the high-performance computing sector, have helped their own customers realize benefit from the joint solutions resulting 70-663 from the collaboration.
Select international partners include ALSANET AG, Bechtle AG, Comparex AT, ErmesTel, Kelway Ltd., Liga Distribution ApS, NEXPERT AG, SCC, Securelinx Ltd., Softcat Ltd., Stover AS, Trustmarque Solutions Ltd. and 2e2.
Customers have come to expect the same kinds of deep, intimate and 650-159 on-demand relationships and technologies that they experience every day in their personal lives. These growing customer expectations and demands have been catalysts for Cisco and our partners to find new ways to marry technology innovation with a new, more proactive services model.
Since the early 1990s, Cisco has been setting the standard in delivering an unmatched services experience. This is founded on the intelligence and information that comes with more than 50 million installed devices, and more than six million customer interactions every year happening through our various support channels phone, mobile applications, machine-to-machine interactions, self-service environments, web-based communities, and social networks. Our partners and customers take advantage of the support touch point that works best for them.
I have the honor and privilege of recognizing New Horizons Computer Learning Centers as a Cisco Partner Summit regional award winner," said Wendy Bahr, senior vice president, U.S. and Canada channels at Cisco. The Learning Partner of the Year recognizes New Horizons performance and accomplishments as a Cisco channel partner in US and Canada in 2008.
Cisco said on Wednesday that it planned to trim its workforce as part of a plan to cut some $1 billion in costs from its annual budget. Executives declined to comment on how many jobs they will cut, saying they will make an announcement by the end of summer.
Wall Street analysts, who were disappointed with the low revenue forecast that Cisco gave for the current quarter and the coming fiscal year, said they were pleased to see Cisco taking quick and decisive action on restructuring.
"It's hard to criticize the pace and scope," said Colin Gillis, an 650-159 analyst with BGC Partners. "We all love the billion dollars in cost savings, but you never cheer people losing their jobs."
Nonetheless, Cisco shares fell 4.8 percent on 650-148 Wednesday, as analysts said it would take many quarters to revive the company.
One of Cisco's key challenges will be to boost the revenue and profit margins of its single largest business -- selling switches that form the backbone of the Internet and corporate networks -- with a smaller workforce.
That unit's sales have fallen in the past two quarters amid steep competition from Hewlett-Packard Co and Juniper Networks, whose sales are growing.
Cisco's planned job cuts stand out at a time when most other U.S. technology companies have started to add jobs after cutbacks during the recession. HP said last week that it was hiring more people to sell switches.
Cisco Chief Financial Officer Frank Calderoni said in an interview late on Wednesday that he did not know when switching sales will start to grow again.
"Part of the issue in there is competing with lower-priced 650-148 competitors," said Alkesh Shah, an analyst with Evercore Partners. "By cutting these costs -- as well as being more aggressive in pricing -- they will be able to be more
Nonetheless, Cisco shares fell 4.8 percent on 650-293 examination Wednesday, as analysts said it would take many quarters to revive the company.
One of Cisco's key challenges will be to boost the revenue and profit margins of its single largest business -- selling switches that form the backbone of the Internet and corporate networks -- with a smaller workforce.
That unit's sales have fallen in the past two quarters amid steep competition from Hewlett-Packard Co and Juniper Networks, whose sales are growing.
Cisco's planned job cuts stand out at a time when most other U.S. technology companies have started to add jobs after cutbacks during the recession. HP said last week that it was hiring more people to sell switches.
Cisco Chief Financial Officer Frank Calderoni said in an interview late on Wednesday that he did not know when switching sales will start to grow again.
"Part of the issue in there is competing with lower-priced competitors," said Alkesh Shah, an analyst with Evercore Partners. "By cutting these costs -- as well as being more aggressive in pricing -- they will be able to be more competitive."
But this time, Cisco cannot point to bad market conditions or 650-293 examination a weak economy as excuses for wielding the ax to its payroll. Instead, Chambers last month took responsibility for mistakes in managing Cisco, saying it needs to focus on its core businesses and be more disciplined about expanding into new areas
That was back when the Internet bubble burst, ending a period 650-292 basic explanation of unrestrained spending on technology products as Internet start-ups and old school companies alike rushed to establish a Web presence.
But this time, Cisco cannot point to bad market conditions or a weak economy as excuses for wielding the ax to its payroll. Instead, Chambers last month took responsibility for mistakes in managing Cisco, saying it needs to focus on its core businesses and be more disciplined about expanding into new areas.
Thus, some of the layoffs are expected to come from businesses that Cisco pulls out of in coming months. Chambers, who has led Cisco for 16 of its 26-year history, has said he will pull out of some nonstrategic areas where Cisco is not the No. 1 or No. 2 player.
A month ago Chambers said Cisco would dump its Flip video camera business, ax 550 jobs and take a charge of $300 million related to the move.
"It's hard to criticize the pace and scope," said Colin Gillis, an analyst 650-292 study guide with BGC Partners. "We all love the billion dollars in cost savings, but you never cheer people losing their jobs."
Nonetheless, Cisco shares fell 4.8 percent on Wednesday, as analysts said it would take many quarters to revive the company.
Under Mr. Hurd, H.P. had surged past I.B.M. as the largest technology HP0-D07 basic explanation power with its sales increasing to $115 billion a year, from $80 billion.
Wall Street rewarded his performance with a surge in the company's stock. From January 2005 to June 2008, the share price climbed nearly 140 percent, compared to 20-percent growth in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index during the same period.
Prior to Mr. Hurd's leadership, H.P. went through a period of considerable turmoil. In mid-1999, the board selected Carleton S. Fiorina as its chief executive. Her bold efforts to merge the company with Compaq led to a proxy fight with the children of one of Hewlett-Packard's founders. It also brought her into conflict with the board, which fired her in February 2005.
The company was rocked again in 2006 when it was revealed that Patricia Dunn, the chairman, had instituted a program to plug leaks from the board by using private detectives to spy on directors, employees and journalists who covered the company. The scandal resulted in the ouster of Ms. Dunn and the firing of several employees.
In September, Hewlett-Packard announced that Léo Apotheker would become its new chief executive and president. Mr. Apotheker served as chief executive of Germanys SAP, one of the largest business software makers, holding the position for only seven months before resigning in February 2010.
Mr. Apotheker announced a new strategy for the company HP0-D07 basic explanation in March 2011, saying that H.P. would build out its tiny software business and expand into the cloud a term used to describe products and services delivered online.
