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Ethernet Prices Drop as Cisco, HP and Juniper Competition Intensifies
Cisco Systems is facing increasing pressure from Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks in an Ethernet switching market that saw revenue decline in the first quarter, due to pricing competition, cutbacks in public spending and seasonal softness, according to market research firms Canalys and Dell’Oro Group. In separate reports issued June 1, analysts with the both firms…
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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…