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ALSO CALLED:
Web Search Portals,
Information Services,
Search Portals,
Vertical Industry Portals,
Vortals,
Web Portals,
Internet Portals,
Online Services,
Vertical Portals
DEFINITION: 1) Portal is a term, generally synonymous with gateway, for a World Wide Web site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. There are general portals and specialized or niche portals. Some major general portals include Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, Lycos, CNET, Microsoft Network, and America Online's AOL.com.
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CA APM and CA APM Cloud Monitor
sponsored by CA Technologies.
VIDEOCAST:
In this videocast, learn how to achieve advanced application and infrastructure monitoring to ensure optimal business service performance – all with the fast, low-cost deployment of a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.
Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 23 Jan 2012
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One-Stop Shop: Best Practices to Streamline your Service Desk
sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc.
WEBCAST:
Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times. Watch this webcast and discover the most current recommendations for service delivery and management best practices.
Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 05 Jan 2012
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Velocity Video: Accelerate your Journey to Virtualization and the Cloud
sponsored by CA Technologies.
VIDEO:
Cloud computing and virtualization are two buzz words that have caught the IT world by storm. This video highlights the benefits and challenges of each initiative as you contemplate making the shift to these environments. Learn more here.
Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Premiered: 13 Jun 2011
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PORTALS DEFINITION (continued):
Examples of niche portals include Garden.com (for gardeners), Fool.com (for investors), and SearchNetworking.com (for network administrators). A number of large access providers offer portals to the Web for their own users. Most portals have adopted the Yahoo style of content categories with a text-intensive, faster loading page that visitors will find easy to use and to return to. Companies with portal sites have attracted much stock market investor interest because portals are viewed as able to command large audiences and numbers of advertising viewers.Typical services offered by portal
Portals definition sponsored by SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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