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Michael Horsch FizzSenior Advisor
FCI Inc.![]()
Michael Horsch Fizz is a Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. Mr. Fizz specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology...
Mark TeterChief Technology Officer
ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUP ![]()
Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Systems Group, a value added reseller and systems integrator. He is responsible for managing major accounts with Sun Microsystems, IBM, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Symantec, Qlogic, Emulex,...
John PirontiChief Information Risk Strategist
Archer Technologies, L.L.C.![]()
John Pironti is Chief Information Risk Strategist at Archer Technologies, a Governance, Risk, and Compliance solution provider. Previously, he was the President of IP Architects, a management consultancy. He is formerly the Chief Information Risk Strategist...
Ian AshDistrict Sales Manager - NY.NJ.CT
Softchoice Corporation- CC![]()
Ian Ash is a District Sales Manager, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at SoftChoice, a software and hardware reseller in North America. Softchoice currently sells 400,000 IT products and provides services in all areas of IT. He is responsible for...
Mark FryeVice President of Sales
Venture Technologies![]()
Mark Frye is the Vice President of Sales at Venture Technologies, a company providing systems integration services. Mr. Frye is experienced in managing partner relationships with Check Point, Nokia, Packeteer, Websense, AdTran, Cisco, F5, Dell, HP, IBM,...
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Salesforce's Benioff Delivers at Dreamforce. Revenue Builders or Social Fodder?
November 19, 2009
Salesforce.com Announces new Social Applications | www.thestandard.com
Salesforce.com announced major initiatives with Computer Associates,Facebook and Twitter all around their new Chatter feature which Mark Benioff calls the greatest changes since Dreamforce.com began 8 yrs ago. But are these additions social fodder or new streams of revenue for the CRM giant?
Cisco's advantages and challenges. Comparisons to Juniper, ProCurve, Brocade.
August 5, 2009
Cisco’s Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says | www.bloomberg.com
Cisco's strengths and challenges for their first fiscal quarter and beyond can be further defined when we compare them to their competition. Juniper, HP ProCurve, Avaya, Brocade (Foundry), Nortel, 3COM are vendors that can help us define and understand Cisco. Cisco's success may very well be due to the weakness of their competition versus the strengths of Cisco. In addition, with $30 plus billion of cash they are better positioned than most.
Carriers running scared of Google (voice)
July 28, 2009
Apple Silences Google Voice On the iPhone | theappleblog.com
Carriers are running scared of Google entering their market with Google Voice. They are trying to block the Google Voice app for the iPhone but they don't seem to bother with the Android phones or the blackberries. Why is this?
As the Twitter security breach and Sarah Palin's email account show: passwords are evil!
July 16, 2009
Lessons from Twitter's security breach | news.cnet.com
Passwords are evil: they are either easy to guess or the password recovery service allows the hacker easy access, as was shown by the Twitter "security breach" and the break-in into Sarah Palin's yahoo email address. But there are companies out there solving this problem, one of them is a stealth start-up called FortKnock.
Why has Yahoo allowed themselves to become the RC Cola of search?
July 16, 2009
Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me | www.nytimes.com
Companies providing only Internet search do not have a long lifespan. Microsoft's main interest in acquiring Yahoo was not their Internet search technology but rather to use them in their fight against Google.
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