Year: 2010

  • Unified Communications:: The Good, The Bad, The Ponzi

    Chris Talbot

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    After a difficult 2009, the unified communications market started to grow again in 2010, with many projects that had been put on hold because of restricted budgets finally coming to fruition. New players in the UC space entered the market, and some anticipated product releases were finally launched. Although Gartner analyst Nick Jones recently called… Read more

  • Dell Buys InSite One for Medical Image Storage

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Dell has announced it will buy InSite One, the developer of a medical archiving cloud application to make it easier for physicians to share medical images and make quick diagnoses by collaborating on images online. Terms of the Dec. 22 agreement were not disclosed. The deal will combine InSite’s InDex Vendor-Neutral Enterprise Archive (VNA) cloud-based… Read more

  • Innovation Forces to Drive Successful IT Investment: Gartner

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    Companies crawling out of spending caps and recessionary thinking have a lot of work to do to prepare as a growth economy re-emerges, according to Gartner Inc. And, the big-name analyst firm is handing out tips for driving innovation in information infrastructure for those ready to harness the power and renewed opportunity of the coming… Read more

  • Skype Users Hit with Global Service Outage

    Channel Insider Staff

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    NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Internet phone and video service Skype went down in a global service outage on Wednesday, underscoring a weakness of the free online communication tool. Skype, partly owned by Web retailer eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY), said some users were having problems signing on. Users in the United States, Asia and Europe… Read more

  • Security

    Security

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Security Market research firm RNCOS predicted the global security market will grow by 12 percent over the next three years. Gartner says the biggest priorities for companies in 2011 will be identity and access management, DLP and switching antivirus or anti-malware vendors. Collaboration A recent report by the Corporate Executive Board showed that CIOs expect… Read more

  • Data Center Network, SAN Equipment Poised for Growth: Report

    Nathan Eddy

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    The results from market research firm Infonetics Research’s third quarter of 2010 (3Q10) Data Center Network Equipment and SAN Equipment market share and forecast reports suggests those two markets are well-positioned for impressive growth in the years ahead. The company forecast the worldwide SAN equipment market to more than double from 2010 to 2014, when… Read more