The company noted that margins in the quarter were hurt by weakness in its managed services sector.
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Other promising areas, he said, include wireless and corporate mobility, systems management software, and more managed services.
The real carrot is the managed services and software on top of a Cloud platform and application layer.
But Dell aims to bring his hyperefficient approach to managed services, too, effectively benchmarking both HP and IBM.
However, that explicit mention of managed services does not constitute a declaration of intent, according to Mr Walker.
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It also offers application performance services, on-demand managed services and business performance management services via its EdgePlatform technological platform.
Brady leaves his role as CEO of IT management company Calyx Managed Services, where he has been since 2008.
We have addressed half of the previously margin-diluting Managed Services contracts, and show continued and strong growth in IP and Next Generation Wireless.
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The introduction of hosted servers, co-location and managed services meant that even those entities, without significant capital or technical resources, could gain benefits previously unavailable to the start-up.
Our data, network and other managed services have grown exponentially.
Last November, the culture minister Ed Vaizey said that ISPs should be able to explore the use of managed services as a way of financing the UK's growing internet infrastructure.
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Many ISPs have begun exploring the possibility of offering "managed services" - effectively giving an exemption from traffic management to website and online applications that are willing to pay for it.
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In June 2012, it acquired White Glove Technologies, a Texas-based managed IT services provider, in an effort to strengthen its presence in the cloud services industry and expand its managed IT services in Texas.
In addition to running critical line of business applications that improve business processes, increase revenue and reduce the TCO of a field mobility solution, CS40 support is available through Intermec's recently announced INcontrol managed services offering.
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In a traditional physical environment, a typical approach would involve signing multiple years worth of contracts that are locked in with traditional IT vendors covering managed services, co-location facilities, or even building new data centers for disaster recovery.
Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.
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The acquisition was not so much for Compaq's PC business-- Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) relentless cost-cutting model has taken out most of its competitors' profits there--but in the hope of building a consulting business, particularly in managed services, that could complement HP's highly profitable printing business.
National Association of State Budget Officers report that many states have to limit benefits much like New York. 24 states are cutting Medicaid payments to health care professionals and 20 states are limiting covered services, mandating higher co-payments, or increasing managed care services.
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Services now account for over half of Xerox revenue, although one-third of them are related to managed print services.
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WellCare specializes in providing managed care services to government-sponsored healthcare programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare.
Now, here comes Michael Dell, vowing to turn his company's low-cost, process-based manufacturing model directly onto both the printing and managed-services businesses.
These solutions included expansion of the company's managed mobility services for tablets, mobile access to cloud-based SAP applications and enhanced security management programs for health care providers.
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For example, the FCC's proposed rules allow ISPs to engage in "reasonable network management" activities and to offer "specialized" or "managed" services outside of the neutrality strictures.
For example, instead of needing vast amounts of office space, Axiom Law, the largest and fastest growing provider of managed legal services to Fortune 500 companies, has a virtual workforce of over 900 attorneys.
When it seems imminent that spending will go over the cap, officials say they will need to modify benefits, payment rates, and look to managed care for services.
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The importance assigned to the amphibious assault mission by policymakers has enabled the Marine Corps, traditionally the smallest of the military services managed by the Pentagon, to grow bigger than the British Army and achieve equality in joint deliberations.
After huge losses in 2002, Zurich Financial Services even managed three consecutive quarters of profits last year.
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Patient health information is managed within online health services to help hospitals and treatment centers improve medical outcomes.
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The council said it had managed to preserve frontline services despite financial pressures.
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