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Innovation Forces to Drive Successful IT Investment: Gartner
Companies crawling out of spending caps and recessionary thinking have a lot of work to do to prepare as a growth economy re-emerges, according to Gartner Inc. And, the big-name analyst firm is handing out tips for driving innovation in information infrastructure for those ready to harness the power and renewed opportunity of the coming…
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Skype Users Hit with Global Service Outage
NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Internet phone and video service Skype went down in a global service outage on Wednesday, underscoring a weakness of the free online communication tool. Skype, partly owned by Web retailer eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY), said some users were having problems signing on. Users in the United States, Asia and Europe…
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Security
Security Market research firm RNCOS predicted the global security market will grow by 12 percent over the next three years. Gartner says the biggest priorities for companies in 2011 will be identity and access management, DLP and switching antivirus or anti-malware vendors. Collaboration A recent report by the Corporate Executive Board showed that CIOs expect…
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Data Center Network, SAN Equipment Poised for Growth: Report
The results from market research firm Infonetics Research’s third quarter of 2010 (3Q10) Data Center Network Equipment and SAN Equipment market share and forecast reports suggests those two markets are well-positioned for impressive growth in the years ahead. The company forecast the worldwide SAN equipment market to more than double from 2010 to 2014, when…
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Teradata’s Aprimo Acquisition Aids Expansion to Cloud Software Services
(Reuters) – Enterprise data warehousing company Teradata Corp agreed to buy privately held Aprimo for $525 million to expand into cloud software services, as it gears to meet challenges from larger rivals IBM and Oracle. Indianapolis-based Aprimo provides software to its enterprise customers, who use it to analyze data to map out their marketing and…
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Google and…um…
Google and…um… The search giant has made no secret of its plans for mobile domination, and its 2010 M&A strategy was focused on everything mobile and social. Many of its mobile acquisitions focused on improving Android functionality – like visual mobile search provider PlinkArt, and music synching techie firm Simplify Media as well as Touch…
