As a Merger and Acquisition advisor, we regularly dialogue with the top executives in the information technology industry. We have to chuckle when we reach a decision maker with a large IT company and he says, “We have a corporate policy that we do not buy companies.” Does this guy read the industry publications? Is his company’s development group that good? Does he understand the first mover advantage or window of opportunity?

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“Mergers and Acquisitions – The Current MO

Stocks are yo-yoing, jobless rates are still climbing, and the
word “”recession”" is getting thrown around more than a ball at
a Beach Boys’ concert. Despite the spurts of hard times in the
technology industry, it remains imperative for companies to plan
for the future; and judging from recent news, the future is now.

HostIndex.com has spoken to several people in the know who have
said (more…)

Ensure Clean, Reliable Power with DC Load Banks and Data Loggers

Load banks are devices which act as an electrical load. When applied to an electrical power source, they convert or dissipate the resultant power output of the source. A DC load bank’s function is to accurately imitate the operational or “real” load that a power source will see in an actual application. However, unlike the “real” load, which (more…)

Data loggers are stand alone devices, gathering and organizing a large amount of data over long spans of time. While they are sometimes part of a data acquisition system, data loggers can also be independently used for getting information reliably and unattended.

One aspect of the loggers is that they usually have a time stamping mechanism and can match data received to the time it was logged. If the logger has a built in real tim (more…)

According to Hertzler’s CEO, Evan J Miller, “Our clients, like ECT, know that accurate data acquisition solutions are vital to efficiency, cost-savings, and time-savings.  Only when these real-time data are available can a company improve their process.”

Chad Roehner explained that, “Statistical Process Control (SPC) software by Hertzler Systems, was obtained for our catalyst division, Environmental Catalyst Technol (more…)