E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- July 30, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
Microsoft and Yahoo Tie a Loose Knot
Revenue Without Borders: How to Fix the Sales and Marketing Cycle
Cuts Propel Motorola to Surprising Q2 Profits
Less Glum Q1 Does Little to Boost Sony's Full-Year Forecast
The Business Case for Virtualization Management

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Podcast
Virtualization Reimagined (32:56 minutes)
One way of looking at an effective enterprise virtualization planning
strategy is to boil it down into three ingredients: the role
interconnections play in allowing physical servers to support multiple
virtual servers; the role and importance of CMDBs in terms of
deployment; and how outsourcing can maximize cost efficiencies.
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Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft and Yahoo Tie a Loose Knot
Microsoft and Yahoo have inked an Internet search advertising agreement,
finally entering a partnership that seemed to die more than one death
over the past two years. In broad terms, the deal gives Microsoft access
to Yahoo's content and advertisers, with its AdCenter platform serving
as the interface.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67728.html

Revenue Without Borders: How to Fix the Sales and Marketing Cycle
Today's revenue cycle is broken. Sales reps spend half their time cold-
calling leads instead of interacting with interested prospects, while
marketing invests its shrinking budget on costly programs and prospect
lists that yield low conversion rates. The two departments seemingly
operate in separate silos, interacting only when a lead is handed off
from marketing to sales.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67727.html

Cuts Propel Motorola to Surprising Q2 Profits
Helped by deep cost cuts, Motorola on Thursday posted an unexpected
profit for the second quarter after several quarters of losses, and said
it expected things to keep improving this year. While sales continued to
decline from last year, Motorola said the cost cuts, including 8,000
layoffs so far this year, set the stage for a comeback from its long-
suffering cellphone unit.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67730.html

Less Glum Q1 Does Little to Boost Sony's Full-Year Forecast
Sony stuck to a forecast for big full-year losses, citing falling gadget
prices and a shaky global recovery, even as it posted less-dismal-than-
expected results for the fiscal first quarter. The maker of the
PlayStation 3 game machine and Walkman portable music player said
Thursday it sank to a net loss for April-June of $391 million from a
$365 million profit a year earlier.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67732.html

The Business Case for Virtualization Management
The process of deploying virtual machines has led IT managers to
discover that the value of virtualization -- the ability to pool
resources, rapidly deploy new applications, increase resource
utilization, and much more -- can only be realized if the process is
well managed.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67726.html

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