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How To Get From CRM To Social

How To Get From CRM To Social
Your company's all over Facebook and Twitter, but until IT integrates marketing and customer service systems, it's all just show.

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2012 State Of Storage: Year Of SSDs
IT's more concerned about data reliability, security, and performance vs. just keeping up with capacity demand, our annual survey shows.
Solid State 101: Where To Deploy SSDs Now
Some solid-state systems are now competitive with high-performance 15,000-rpm drives.
Networking Evolves, Getting Easier And More Flexible
New protocols SDN and OpenFlow look like promising ways to cut costs and increase automation.
Embree Arrives
Open source photo-realistic ray tracing kernels that take full advantage of SSE and AVX on the CPU
Mobile Apps Drive Change
As mobile devices become a major development platform, scripting languages are beginning to fall out of favor.

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CIO Profile: Barry Vandevie Of Sabre Holdings
Sabre is counting on automation within its private cloud for increased application and server utilization.

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