Citi's unified technology decision making model and its recent efforts to gain efficiencies prepared us to invest in these innovative technologies that benefit our clients.
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Koso bought his new communications systems from Thinking Phone Networks, a provider of unified communications technology.
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So despite budget tightening in Washington, this is one area that analysts feel will not be pinched, but rather see expansion for unified threat management (UTM) technology.
"We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.
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To deliver its own unified communications solution, however, Oracle will need additional technology.
Unified plans to use the funding round to build out the technology and hire more people in engineering and sales and marketing.
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Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big data brings countless new opportunities for learning about customers and their wants and needs.
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The new systems design combines IBM's new zEnterprise mainframe server with new technology--the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and the IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager--that enable it to manage workloads running across System z, and select POWER7 and System x servers.
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Overall, according to the European Commission, the lack of a unified patent system is one reason why Europe's small and medium-sized technology firms fail to grow as quickly as those in America, Asia and elsewhere.
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