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EMC, NetApp, IBM Lead External Disk Storage Systems Growth: IDC Report
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 13.2 percent, totaling just under $5.6 billion in the first 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 12.1 percent growth…
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Leveraging Customer Assessments for Better Sales
By Mike Semel K-12 school district and healthcare assessment projects have turned out to be the gift that keeps on giving for IT solution providers. Not only have the assessment projects themselves been profitable, but they have paid off well with managed services recurring revenue and projects. These are really easy, because we use the…
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Sensitive, Personal Data Leaked from Majority of Web Sites
A team of university researchers examined more than 100 "popular" Websites and found three-quarters of the sites leaked private information or users’ identifying data to third-party tracking sites. The survey results were released shortly after Facebook came under fire for inadvertently passing user data to other parties. More than half (56 percent) of sites "directly…
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HP Introduces IT Performance Suite
Keeping its promise to continually increase its focus on software, HP has introduced a new suite of software to measure and improve IT performance for enterprise customers. “We are repositioning our entire portfolio into the HP Performance Suite. We’re in a position to cover, end to end, the operational and analytical needs of enterprise IT…
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Downturn in Consumer PC Business Doesn’t Ruffle HP
Some observers of the IT world were taken aback by Hewlett-Packard’s most recent quarterly earnings report, which plainly showed that the world’s largest supplier of personal computers had slipped in the consumer laptop/notebook department. People who follow the PC business closely, however, were not surprised. These folks already knew that Apple’s iPad and iPad 2,…