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Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Decline 0.5% in 2016
Apr 11, 2016Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5% over 2015 spending of US$3.5 trillion, according to Gartner. This is down from last quarter's forecast of 0.5% growth. The change in the forecast is ...
Tags: device market, printers
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Public Cloud Services Market in The MENA Is on Pace to Grow 23 Percent in 2014
May 14, 2014The public cloud services market in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is on pace to grow 23 percent in 2014 to total $629 million, up from $511 million in 2013, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, while Software as a ...
Tags: Cloud Services, Gartner
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IBM Will Take The Wraps off a Portfolio of Products for Software-Defined Storage
May 13, 2014On Monday, IBM will take the wraps off a portfolio of products for software-defined storage, an area where established vendors and startups alike are already claiming the future has arrived. ‘Elastic Storage’ aims at some ...
Tags: IBM, Storage Product
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IBM Today Announced Plans to Commit $1.2 Billion to Expand Its Global Cloud Footprint
Jan 20, 2014IBM today announced plans to commit $1.2 billion (£730 million) to expand its global cloud footprint through a number of new data centres set to open this year. The company said it will use the money to open up to 15 new data ...
Tags: IBM, Computer Products
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Google Is Making Its IaaS GCE Available as a Full-Fledged Commercial Service
Dec 4, 2013After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level ...
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Oracle Announced a Brace of New Cloud Products and Services Today
Sep 26, 2013Oracle announced a brace of new cloud products and services today, pushing versions of many of its existing services into the cloud and crowning the announcements with Database as a Service, revealed this afternoon by VP of product ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Nigel Beighton Outlined The Five Areas
Sep 20, 2013Nigel Beighton, VP of technology of hosting company Rackspace, outlined the five areas that firms should focus on in order to get the most out of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Speaking at Structure Europe in London, Beighton said ...
Tags: Computer Products, cloud
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The Worldwide IT Outsourcing Market Is Poised to Grow More Slowly Than Previously Expected
Aug 5, 2013The worldwide IT outsourcing market is poised to grow more slowly than previously expected, reaching $288 billion in 2013, a 2.8 percent increase from 2012, according to Gartner. Looking out further, Gartner predicts a 5.4 percent compound ...
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Cisco Is Building a Router for The Internet of Everything
Jul 19, 2013Cisco is building a router for the Internet of Everything, the company's initiative to connect the billions of devices – or 99 percent of the world – that it claims?isn't already connected. As disclosed at?Cisco Live?three ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Global Outsourcing Market Will Reach $288bn in Value This Year
Jul 19, 2013The global outsourcing market will reach $288bn in value this year, according to analyst group Gartner. The figure represents a modest increase of 2.8 per cent - 5.1 per cent in "constant currency" - compared to 2012. "Nearly all ITO ...
Tags: outsourcing market
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Ozzie Is One of Three New Board Members HP Announced Monday
Jul 18, 2013Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has received a major infusion of software know-how, with the addition of former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie . Ozzie is one of three new board members HP announced Monday, along with ...
Tags: Computer Products, HP
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CERN Is Making The Infrastructure More Flexible with OpenStack for Virtualization
Jun 21, 2013CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
Tags: CERN, IT Infrastructure, OpenStack, Puppet
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US Cloud Providers Think More Enterprises Choosing Local Alternatives
Jun 14, 2013European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in ...
Tags: US Cloud Providers, Europe, NSA Revelations
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IBM Is Pitching Its SmartCloud IaaS for Use in Data Reporting and Analysis
May 28, 2013Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
Tags: IBM, Computer Products, SmartCloud
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VMware Has Launched Its Long-Anticipated Public Infrastructure as a Service
May 24, 2013VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will ...
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