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Data-Storage In a Post-9/11 World
Ten years ago, when the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit the eastern United States, storage and security concerns about business data weren’t that different from what we have today. Large enterprises housed their data in mainframes and array clusters, and they had archive tapes carted away to mysterious locations. Midrange businesses also did this but on…
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A First Look at the Amazon Kindle Android Tablet
Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Android tablet has been one of the worst kept secrets for months since CEO Jeff Bezos alluded to it. Analysts have predicted features and price points below $300 to help it effectively compete with Apple’s standard-bearing iPad. Price right with Amazon’s powerful brand, Forrester Research believes the tablet could sell 3 million to…
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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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August Employment Index Shows Drop in Hiring: Report
The August CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI), a barometer for hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees, further decreased by .36 percent through the month, after posting a decrease of .90 percent in July. Today’s announcement follows ADP’s August jobs survey, which showed that the private sector added 91,000 jobs in August,…