IDC-Studie:
Die aktuellen Gepflogenheiten europäischer Unternehmen in punkto Datacenter-Management lassen noch viel Raum für Verbesserung. Zwar eröffnen Virtualisierung und Automatisierung neue Wege, die Kosten im Rechenzentrum (RZ) zu reduzieren und personelle Ressourcen freizusetzen. Häufig konzentrieren sich die Firmen aber noch auf die falschen Bereiche. Zu diesem Schluss kommt das Marktforschungs- und Beratungshaus ...
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For decades, software buyers have been engaged in an "arranged marriage" type of relationship with software vendors: and a from a deal's beginning. Typically, these deals had two key variables: the number of seat licenses (volume) a company purchased and the amount that the software publisher was willing to discount the purchase price, which was linked back to the volume.
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Potentially toughening the competitive landscape for its own , Microsoft will expand support for the HTML5 specification in its Internet Explorer 9 browser, under a plan revealed Tuesday.
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Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.
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According to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced a slight increase in year-over-year growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 (Q4- 09) with revenues of $3.09 billion, representing 0.5 percent growth over the same quarter one year ago, as well as 6.3 percent growth from the previous quarter (Q3-09).
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A new set of predictions by Gartner Inc. reports that by 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets, neither end user nor data centre.
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The tech sector passed two poignant market anniversaries this week on its way to what investors and vendors hope will be a sustainable recovery from the recession and, in the best-case scenario, another boom cycle.
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Storage technology vendor DataCore Software Corp. is touting a three-dimensional approach to virtualization that encourages organizations to address server, desktop and storage concurrently from the outset when building a virtualized environment.
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CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to ComputerworldUK's sister analyst group IDC.
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IBM is offering organisations an opportunity to experience more scalable, workload-tuned computing on the x86 platform. The company has launched new eX5 servers that have the ability to break the technical barriers to reach this goal.
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If you didn't get the message with the release of the or the subsequent arrival of Android, then has to be your wake-up call. Mobile is no longer just the future; its time is now.
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The amount of disk storage capacity shipped worldwide grew 33.4% in 2009, with more than 3.3 petabytes worth of capacity sold during the fourth quarter alone. Also, in the fourth quarter, disk storage revenue also grew .2% to $7.3 billion, representing the first increase in external storage systems sales in more than a year, according to by market research firm IDC.
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Fueled by the rapid development in telecommunications services in the ASEAN region, tech giant IBM recently opened its doors through its new ASEAN Telecom Center of Excellence (CoE) in order to contribute to the growth of regional telco providers.
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SAN FRANSISCO -- Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week's RSA Conference.
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For the fourth consecutive year, Lenovo Hong Kong has retained its leadership position in the client PC market in Hong Kong, according to a recent PC tracker report from global IT research and advice firm IDC.
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Cloud-Angebote von Fujitsu:
Erst war es ein Hype, nun ist es Realität. Cloud Computing ist in der Praxis angekommen. Die desolate Wirtschaftslage sorgt für zunehmende Akzeptanz von Cloud-Diensten. Für Gartner gehört Cloud Computing inzwischen zu den zehn wichtigsten strategischen Trends, die sich in den nächsten drei Jahren signifikant auf Anwenderunternehmen auswirken werden. Diesem Trend können sich auch die großen IT-Anbieter ...
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Praxis-Erfahrungen:
In Unternehmen ist Virtualisierung erst zum Teil angekommen. Deshalb ist es um so wichtiger, einige Regeln zu beachten, um nicht zu jenen zu gehören, die nach ihren ersten schlechten Erfahrungen wieder aufgeben.
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Desktop-Virtualisierung:
IDC hat auf Basis von Kundenbefragungen signifikante Kostenvorteile beim Einsatz der Desktop-Virtualisierung von VMware festgestellt. Demnach könnten im Vergleich zu klassischen PC-Ausstattungen ("fat clients") bis zu 600 Dollar pro User und Jahr gespart werden. Es gibt aber auch Nachteile.
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The National Broadband Plan that will be submitted to Congress March 17 already appears be impossibly broad and technologically difficult to roll out, based on what's known about the proposal so far, several analysts said Tuesday.
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SAP AG launched the SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand offering that is hosted and designed specifically for the everyday user with zero business intelligence training, along with the slogan: "Instant insight for the rest of us."
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IDC-Studie:
Laut einer aktuellen IDC-Studie setzen derzeit zwar nur zwölf Prozent der deutschen Unternehmen Online-Speicher ein. Zwei Drittel der Befragten haben sich aber bereits mit Storage aus der Cloud beschäftigt. Wichtigster Treiber dafür ist der Kostenvorteil. Die Studie gibt auch darüber Auskunft, wie Cloud-Storage in den Unternehmen tatsächlich eingesetzt wird, welche Vor- und Nachteile die Anwender ...
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EMC is expanding its security consulting services to help enterprises tackle the complexities of securing their data and complying with regulations in virtualized computing environments.
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While worldwide semiconductor sales in January were up just slightly from December, they wildly outpaced numbers from the same time a year ago.
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SAP has seen its share of executive upheaval and customer discontent in recent months, but a newly inked agreement with global conglomerate 3M is giving it reason to celebrate.
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Users looking to move to desktop virtualisation should be wary of thinking that it's a panacea of all their desktop problems. That's according to Lionel Lamy, IDC's research director for software and services who warned that companies often had unrealistic expectations of what moving to the technology would do for their business.
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While the recession has prompted many companies to put IT projects on hold, MasterCard Inc. moved ahead with plans to create an IT service management program aimed at improving service delivery and cutting costs.
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SAP is making its business intelligence (BI) solutions more accessible to more users as it introduced a package of solutions intended for "casual users".
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, known widely for its Parallels Desktop software that lets , faces a problem that currently plagues many cloud companies: an identity crisis.
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this week received a patent for streaming social network news feed technology, raising questions over how the company will wield this new power.
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A raft of new netbooks, laptops and computers with 3D support will be on display at Cebit in Hanover, Germany, next week. Google will use the trade show to push its Street View map technology and SAP's new co-CEO will take the stage in a keynote address.
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Das prophezeien jedenfalls die Analysten des Marktforschungsinstituts IDC. TecChannel. Premium-Login | ...IDC: Milliardenstrafe für Intel lässt PC-Preise steigen. ...
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... Bekundungen des Managements wird die Prozessorplattform Sparc von Sun Microsystems unter dem Dach von Oracle nicht überleben, urteilt IDC-Analyst Rüdiger ...IDC. ...