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The days of all local or all cloud data storage are numbered.

The early adopter "cloud crowd" makes the most headlines, but they're only the tip of the small business iceberg. Looking at various data storage vendor customer numbers has convinced me 90% of small businesses are still mostly land (or LAN) based. Some people don't yet trust Internet data storage, and some like to wear data storage suspenders with their data storage belts. The good news for both? Options for combo cloud and local storage hybrids continue to grow.

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The total price tag for government-led stimulus programs in the Asia/Pacific region will easily tip over US$1.5 trillion by mid-2009. This massive injections of liquidity will up the ante in the already fierce competition of banks. Which banks will win?

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PCmag.com editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff takes issue with a post by Computerworld blogger Seth Weintraub and anyone else who are arguing Window 7 Starter could be a netbook non-starter for Microsoft. A Wall Street Journal story last night about Windows 7 Starter prompted several posts concluding Microsoft may have opened the door to a Linux client on netbooks. Starter promises to be a smaller and more limited version of full Windows 7.

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By focusing on five things, you will begin delivering projects more effectively and build a better "project culture".

We all understand that effective project and program delivery is vital to support the agenda of and organization and that good project management is a critical business skill. Even in the challenging climate, typically the demand for projects exceeds the capacity to deliver. In addition to good project management, organizations need to effectively manage a portfolio of projects. Different groups within the organization compete for scarce resources and priorities and needs change over time.

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There is no doubt that Open Source software can save organizations significant amounts of money. If Google, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube were running on Windows, the licensing fees would be in the tens of millions of dollars. These are enormous systems that are written by really smart engineers. What about the small and medium business? Money can be saved but some of the obstacles that prevent adoption of FOSS in the SMB market include:

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Where are netbooks taking us? Where are mobile handsets taking us? Smash! As they race toward each other for an eventual love embrace, the mating of these two devices will result in the perfect marriage of full browsing and VoIP telephony. Performing the ceremony will be Father Wireless F. Broadband (f as in free).

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The Leapfrog Group promised to change hospitals' relationships with employers when it was founded in 2000. The Group's mission was to leverage the buying power of employers to drive hospitals to install computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) that attempt to reduce the incidence of and cost attributed to medical errors. The landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine report titled To Err is Human report placed the price tag on these errors in the U.S. at $20B per year. Ten years later, with medical errors still rampant, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) attempts once again to address the problem by offering incentives to hospitals to adopt EMRs, which have CPOE as a critical component and also promise reductions in medical errors as well as gains in efficiency.

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New storage options for those with no servers or many.

I said it years ago, but it's even more true today: you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much data storage. Now that you can buy hard drives holding a terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes) for a little over $100, you might think storage isn't a problem anymore. But upgrading storage across various desktops and laptops isn't really data storage, it's just data scattered. Organized storage takes some planning, so let's talk about three new products that will help you intelligently increase local storage capacity.

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Well that is what they say, but the truth is somewhere in between. As we find ourselves in new, strange financial waters with the executive branch of the U.S. government effectively firing the CEO of General Motors and pressuring board replacements one has to consider what is bankruptcy?

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To succeed in marketing and communications, you need to tie digital communications channels together and understand your audience.

There is a lot of discussion about social media today and my colleagues, Chris Brogan, and his team of pirates in the New Marketing Labs are paving the way with their leading work in this area. We are often asked how social media marketing fits into a broader strategy of digital marketing and communications. What is the new role of the corporate web site, newsletters and eMail? How do we tie in our event marketing and focus our strategic sales teams? How do we focus limited marketing resources and messages on the right targets?

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