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Apple iPad to Dominate Holiday Season Tablet Sales: Gartner Report
Apple’s best-selling iPad will account for 73.4 percent of worldwide media tablet sales in 2011, down from 83 percent share in 2010, according projections from Gartner. The market research firm also noted Apple will have free reign in the tablet market during the lucrative holiday season, as competition from Google Android-based tablet devices and others…
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IBM Offers Cloud Training, Resources to Partners
This week IBM locked its targets in on enabling its channel to take better advantage of the cloud by rolling out a new initiative that it says will provide partners the means to improve their cloud skill sets and minimize the steps required to start selling cloud-based solutions. Offered initially as a pilot program to…
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More Than Half of Enterprise Email Will Live in the Cloud By 2020
Web-based e-mail will comprise at least 10 percent of the license seats in enterprises through 2014, but will hit 55 percent by 2020 as it reaches mass adoption, according to Gartner. Web-based, or cloud e-mail, is hosted by providers such as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), VMware’s Zimbra unit and several startups, and provisioned to users…
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D-Link Releases SAN Array, CloudCommand-Powered WiFi Access Point
Networking solutions provider D-Link announced the release of the DAP-2565 AirPremier N Dual Band PoE Access Point with Plenum-Rated Chassis powered by CloudCommand, designed for indoor plenum deployment in above-ceiling airspace installations. The company also unveiled the DSN-4000 Series xStack Storage iSCSI SAN Array, which supports mixing nonproprietary SAS and SATA disk drives of various…
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Mayor Bloomberg: NYC Challenges Silicon Valley for Tech Startups
NEW YORK New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he believes New York could soon replace Silicon Valley as the go-to location for high-tech startups to sprout. Speaking at IBM s THINK Forum here, also known as “THINK: A Forum on the Future of Leadership,” Bloomberg said New York has replaced Boston as the second-place…
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Oracle to Focus on High-End Server Business
When Oracle executives were positioning the company to buy Sun Microsystems in late 2009, they stressed that the plan was to abandon the low-end commodity server business, instead focusing on high-end systems bundled with Oracle’s own enterprise software. During a conference call Sept. 20 with analysts and journalists to announce fiscal first-quarter 2012 results, Oracle…