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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

TechCrunch

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. Survey data illustrates the dramatic shift.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

Panorama Consulting Solutions, which regularly surveys businesses on the outcomes of their ERP projects, shows in its 2022 report that 81% of projects met ROI expectations a year or more after go-live. ERP pains are a recurring illness for Invacare, which also had problems with an earlier upgrade between 2005 and 2009.

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The Worst Possible Day: U.S. Telecommunications and Huawei

The Cipher Brief

Nokia and Ericsson in recent years have been financially shaky, with debt bonds emerging from junk bond status in 2017 only to lowest-grade investment status in 2018 and 2019, and both companies have suffered negative net income most quarters since the beginning of 2017. Congress passed the General Survey Act of 1824. Nokia spent $16.6