EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
Tags: EMC, heavy interest, data center, servers, China
Apple will introduce a smaller iPad in two weeks, and if it holds to past practice, will start selling the new tablet in early November, according to a report today. "That's more than enough time to make the holiday sales season," said ...
Tags: Apple, smaller iPad, new tablet, iPad Mini
Hewlett-Packard has had some bad quarters in its 73 years, but perhaps none as bad as its latest -- when it reported a loss of $8.9 billion on sales that fell 5% to $29.7 billion. The poor third-quarter results produced little drama on ...
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BlackBerry 10 smartphones, delayed until early 2013, will have the "best browsers in the industry" and will come in touchscreen-only models as well as those with traditional physical keyboards, a Research In Motion executive said Thursday. ...
Tags: RIM, BlackBerry 10, smartphones, management software
Even Apple has been hit by the computer sales tailspin in the U.S., research firms IDC and Gartner said yesterday. The two companies projected that U.S. Mac sales during the quarter ending Sept. 30 were down from the same period the year ...
Tags: Apple, computer sales, U.S., Mac
VMware announced today that its vSphere cloud operating system will now come natively with EMC's Avamar backup and recovery software, which also includes data deduplication capability. Additionally, EMC announced its VFCache PCIe server ...
Tags: VMware, vSphere cloud, operating system, EMC, Avamar backup
Utility companies in Western Europe will spend $10.5bn on IT this year, of which over 62% will be invested in IT services. IDC Energy Insights expects IT spending by utility companies in the region to exceed $13bn in 2016, after average ...
Tags: Western Europe, Utility Companies, IT services, IDC Energy Insights
While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
Tags: hardware, economic hurdles, software, Wall Street
Analyst group IDC's new Digital Universe study predicts there will be 40 Zettabytes of data on the planet by 2020, an amount that exceeds previous forecasts by 14%. To put that into a real world context, 40 ZB is equal to 57 times the ...
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Computerworld - Research In Motion (RIM) today set Jan. 30 for the launch of BlackBerry 10, when it will also unveil its first two smartphones on the OS. The announcement was greeted with some surprise by longtime BlackBerry fans who ...
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Apple sold more PCs worldwide last quarter -- 21 million -- than any rival, retaking the lead it lost the quarter before, U.K.-based Canalys said yesterday. And because Microsoft lacks a tablet operating system, sales of Windows-powered ...
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With Microsoft's new Outlook.com free email service getting so much attention, will Google and Yahoo need to update their own email offerings before they start to lose users? Google's Gmail will need some updates to grab a piece of the ...
Tags: Microsoft, Outlook.com, free email service, Google, Yahoo, email offerings
Juniper Networks has unveiled an update to its vGW Virtual Gateway product line to target service providers looking for better security on a larger scale. The vGW series works at the hypervisor level, putting firewall, antivirus and ...
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EMC Momentum 2012 opened in Vienna with a slew of product releases and updates. At its 19th Momentum conference, EMC announced a series of product releases across its Information Intelligence Group (IIG) portfolio. EMC announced ...
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Enterprises continued to buy more storage in the second quarter despite economic woes in many parts of the world, driving total disk storage system revenue up 8.0 percent from a year earlier, according to research company IDC. Spending on ...
Tags: data storage, IDC, disk storage system, USA