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- RedHerring.com — The Business of Technology
- Intel Disconnects Its Phone Unit
- The hundred pound pot plant
- Compellent Makes ILM Easier
- The future of Microsoft after Gates.(Bill Gates)
- GMAC Bank Adopts Electronic Vault Technology.

RedHerring.com — The Business of Technology
Red Herring – Jun 27, 2006
, a security consultancy, says security used to be a ?grudge purchase? for most organizations. ?But now it has become a part of doing business. ? Since 2002, some 2 million surveillance cameras have been moving into position in the U. every year, each unit adding hundreds of new hours of footage to be organized, analyzed, and archived. That translates into a huge opportunity for companies making products that can do these jobs better… every year, each unit adding hundreds of new hours of footage to be organized, analyzed, and archived. That translates into a huge opportunity for companies making products that can do these jobs better. Terrorism fears have heated up the market, of course, but so too has the world?s switch to digital, opening up all sorts of possibilities. Digital surveillance cameras outsold analog equipment for the first time last year, and when digital video is combined with Internet Protocol [IP] technology, things start to happen.

Intel Disconnects Its Phone Unit
Forbes – Jun 27, 2006
Tuesday the company proved them correct, dumping the unit to Marvell Technology for the fire-sale price of $600 million. The deal comes after the company invested nine years and likely more than $3 billion into cracking the billion-unit market for its cell phone division. It ultimately accomplished little more than illustrating how difficult it was for the chip giant to stray from its core business. In 1997, after an ugly lawsuit, Intel (nasdaq:… Don’t count out Marvell though. The communications-chip maker has been on a rampage. While moving into one difficult market after another, it has increased annual sales from less than $100 million to more than $2 billion in only six years as a public company, while managing to stay profitable. “We believe we are now positioned to lead the cell phone market,” Marvell founder and chief executive.

The hundred pound pot plant
Online Recruitment – Jun 27, 2006
” According to a survey of 200 medium-large UK employers on their attitudes to the workplace[3], just one in ten London firms has taken advice on the kind and amount of office space appropriate for their business. Neil Paul adds: “A Central London office offers a lot of prestige and many businesses are not willing to compromise on this for a larger but less expensive space outside the city. However, in our experience, many companies lease space that is unsuitable in terms of size and cost. “There’s no reason to compromise on location or office size – especially, when office space is wasted by document containers, empty water-cooler bottles and disused equipment. Instead the answer can be as simple as moving old files and unused furniture into storage. In fact, according to a survey by the Capita Group, the average London office has over 10 per cent of floor space taken up by filing cabinets. For an office space of 5,000 square feet, the space of these filing cabinets could be costing businesses up to £53,500 each year… Uncluttered spaces inspire confidence in workers, clients and fire inspectors. “Central London office manager Phillip Game agrees: “We realised how much space archived files were taking up in our office. After moving these files into storage, we found that we could fit extra desks and workstations. We also had a room that we used for filing after moving the paperwork into storage we literally had enough spare office space for another three desks. “[1] according to a survey by global property advisers DTZ[2] figures from property agents CB Richard Ellis[3] commissioned by Morgan Lovell

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Compellent Makes ILM Easier
Enterprise Storage Forum – Jun 27, 2006
The SAN uses metadata to determine which tier of storage should be used to store each block of data and then monitors usage over time. Frequently accessed data is retained on high-performance storage and infrequently accessed data is automatically migrated to lower-cost storage, reducing overall disk expenditures by as much as 74 percent, the company says. “Storage users want ILM, but manual data classification and data movement are preventing companies from moving forward,” says Bruce Kornfeld, Compellent’s vice president of marketing. QuickStart ILM, he says, lets users “implement automated tiered storage for their organization in just minutes. ”
“I think Compellent has done a really nice job of making ILM a reality inside a single box,” says Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at the Taneja Group. “Several other players can do the hardware part of this, i.

The future of Microsoft after Gates.(Bill Gates)
Free with registration – Computer Weekly – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 27, 2006
“The response to this challenge will be led by chief technology officer Craig Mundie, who will take on Gates’ research and strategy responsibilities, and Ray Ozzie, who will become chief software architect. Both have a background in developing business technologies. Ozzie headed up Lotus and founded collaborative technology company Groove Networks, while Mundie played a.

GMAC Bank Adopts Electronic Vault Technology.
Free with registration – Mortgage Line – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 27, 2006
GMAC Bank maintains more than $11 billion in assets. GMAC Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Residential Capital Corp. , a real estate finance company based in Minneapolis, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of GMAC. The GMAC Bank, Trust Operations, Document Custody Division provides its clients with ease of.