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Storage Software Revenues Post Seventh Consecutive Quarter of Growth: IDC
The storage software market experienced its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth during the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11), according to the IT research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) and the company’s Worldwide Storage Software QView. The total market value approached $3.4 billion during the quarter, up 11.3 percent over the same period last year.…
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Cloud Computing Driving Revenue Growth: CompTIA Report
Cloud computing is generating significant revenue streams for IT channel companies, which plan to boost their cloud investments in the next year, according to research from CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the IT industry. Among IT channel companies offering cloud computing solutions, 46 percent report deriving 50 percent or more of their annual revenue…
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Disk Storage Systems Market Sees Strong Growth: IDC Report
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 12.2 percent, totaling just over $5.6 billion, in the second quarter of 2011, according to IDC’s worldwide quarterly disk storage systems tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to just shy of $7.5 billion in revenues, representing a 10.2 percent…
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Content and Network Security See Strong Growth
The global content security gateway market continues to gain at a steady clip, growing at more than double the rate of standard network security products according to a new report out by analysts with Infonetics Research. The report found that security gateway appliances and software market sales grew 8 percent in the second quarter of…
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IBM to Acquire i2 to Accelerate Big Data Analytics
Technology giant IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire i2, a provider of intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention based in Cambridge, UK with U.S. headquarters in McLean, Va., to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms of the…