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10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About

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Every Wednesday, Gartner does a free webinar on a variety of topics. According to Gartner, the average server uses 65% of its power just sitting idle. Gartner noted that client virtualization is still pretty new, though, and there are kinks to work out. . Gartner agrees. Disruptive Technology #1: Virtualization.

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How Carnegie Corporation of New York Got Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

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She is also on the board of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG). TAG is a membership organization composed of foundation techies who share information about their work in the philanthropy sector. It has great discussion boards, hosts webinars, provides Gartner IT research, and organizes a big annual conference.

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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

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As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Attend webinars. Get free Gartner research.

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

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Enter Gartner. In another of their always insightful webinars, we got to take a look at where the cloud is now, and where it's headed. The analogy the Gartner analyst used was electricity: As consumers, we don't worry about how electricity gets to our light switch, we just worry about flipping the switch effectively.

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IT Budget Cuts: How to Do it Right

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That was the theme of a webinar I attended with the folks from Gartner called "Emergency IT Cost Cutting." Being me, I tweeted throughout the webinar, which also sparked a couple great conversations. Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN. IT is not a cost center.

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Great Resources for Foundation Technology

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As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Attend webinars. Get free Gartner research.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

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We had a dashboard that told us things like how many members we had and how many webinar registrations we'd sold. Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." Tags: bi business intelligence dashboards data IT Staff NPTech NTEN. What about you?