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		<title>Bender Consulting Predicst Oil &amp; Gas Trends for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bender Consulting Predicts Key Trends For The Oil &#38; Gas Sector In 2011 Natural Gas will Continue to Emerge as the Most Important Fuel in the U.S.; $100 Oil Will Force the U.S. Government into Action;International Powers Become Less Bold as U.S. Increases Usable Domestic Reserves AUSTIN, Texas – January 11, 2011 – Bender Consulting, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=721&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bender Consulting Predicts Key IT Trends For 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bender Consulting Predicts Key IT Trends For 2011 Mobile Computing and Cloud Computing Continue to Play Major Roles SAN FRANCISO – January 6, 2011 – Bender Consulting, a premier boutique consulting firm with deep expertise in the IT sector, today announced its predictions for key trends that will have the biggest impact on IT for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=719&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Move Your IT Organization Up The Scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Archibald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many companies IT is not used as a strategic asset: Most companies spend 60% &#8211; 80% of their total IT dollars on maintenance rather than innovation. IT investment decision-making processes are immature for many companies. IT financials typically look like a “black box.” IT value is not understood in business terms within many organizations. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=711&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did HP overpay for 3PAR? John Bender doesn&#8217;t think so. What are your thoughts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computerworld – “Few, if any, expected Dell to win the weeks-long bidding battle for 3Par after HP slammed down a $2 billion bid for the company, trumping Dell&#8217;s previous bid by almost $400 million. … John Bender, who once ran HP&#8217;s mergers and acquisitions group and led the HP-Compaq merger in 2002, said his former [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=702&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumerization of IT Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Archibald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One area of focus we are seeing today is the Consumerization of IT.   Many IT services are becoming a commodity in the consumer marketplace.  Most of these services can be purchased online with a credit card (if they aren’t free) and are readily available to the general public.  Mobility products (Blackberry, iPhone and Droid) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=696&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dell/HP 3PAR negotiations heat up. Where do we go from here?</title>
		<link>http://bendercon.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/dellhp-3par-negotiations-heat-up-where-do-we-go-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kcutshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 27 -Computerworld Article: &#8220;In less than two weeks, the bids for grid-storage vendor 3Par have nearly doubled, from $1.15 billion to $2 billion with Hewlett-Packard&#8217;s latest tit-for-tat bid against Dell. The two technology behemoths are fighting for what is arguably the last independent vendor of enterprise-class data storage on the market. But when do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=690&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons IT Pros Should Be Paranoid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kcutshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Tynan - InfoWorld (US) IT organizations have a lot on their plates, and keeping the data center humming is only part of the equation. Factor in the threats coming at IT from every direction, and you can see why IT pros have ample reason to be paranoid. The invasion of consumer devices into the workplace, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=686&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;China And India&#8217;s Competition For Resources Causing a Rise in Cross-Border Acquisitions&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CORPORATE FINANCE FOCUS By Gordon Platt Mergers and acquisitions in emerging markets are heating up, and China and India are at the center of a bidding war for global resources, especially energy and metals, that is boosting cross-border deals. M&#38;A transactions involving companies based in emerging markets more than doubled in the first quarter of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=663&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bender Consulting Shares Perspective On Current M&amp;A Landscape</title>
		<link>http://bendercon.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/bender-consulting-shares-perspective-on-current-ma-landscape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benderblogandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bender Consulting Shares Perspective On Current M&#38;A Landscape Flurry of M&#38;A attributed to key trends and drivers SAN FRANCISCO – May 6, 2010 – Bender Consulting, a premier management consulting firm, offers perspective on the key trends and drivers for increased M&#38;A activity on 2010. Energy and high-tech industries see a flurry of activity in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=652&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does HP&#8217;s Acquisition of Palm Mean?</title>
		<link>http://bendercon.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/what-does-hps-acquisition-of-palm-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Archibald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does HP’s acquisition of Palm mean? Yesterday, HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion. So, what does it all mean? Interestingly, Todd Bradley is an executive vice president in charge of the personal systems group at HP, and a former Palm employee. If anyone knows how to integrate Palm into the HP fold, it will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendercon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6852295&amp;post=650&amp;subd=bendercon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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