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SaaS Spending to Increase Exponentially: Report
Small to medium-size business (SMB) spending in the U.S. on software as a service (SaaS) will increase exponentially over the next five years, eclipsing growth in investments in on-premise software by a "significant margin", according to a report from IT research firm AMI-Partners. The company forecast a 25 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in…
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Apple’s Mac, iPad, iPhone Invading the Enterprise
iPad for business? Just ten years ago the idea of a significant Apple computer presence in the enterprise would have been scoffed at and quickly brushed aside, but those days seem to be ending. More and more, employees are bringing their iPhones to work, requesting to work with Mac instead of Windows computers, and that…
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Dell to Launch New Ad Campaign, Intro Laptop to Tablet Convertible
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) is getting a marketing makeover, trying to shed its image as a cheaper alternative to rivals, including the sleek and highly popular gadgets sold by Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL). The world’s No. 2 PC maker said on Wednesday it will spend "hundreds and hundreds of millions" on…
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MacBook, iPad Offspring: The New MacBook Air
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct 20 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the thinnest, lightest Mac laptop yet, fusing features from its popular iPhone and iPad with its traditional line of personal computers. Apple, whose computers have taken market share from PCs based on Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows, will bring a version of its…
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Westcon LEAP Centers Designed to Test Customer Workloads on New Data Center Equipment
Networking and data center specialty distributor Westcon Group has unveiled a facility in Denver designed to give resellers in the United States an environment where they can test, train, experiment and simulate a range of data center solutions. The new facility is the first in the United States and the second in a series of…
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EMC, Dell Working to Fix Relationship
(Reuters) – Tech giants Dell Inc and EMC Corp are trying to repair a long-running business partnership that was damaged when one of them flirted with the rival of the other. The trouble began in August when Dell offered $1.15 billion to buy high-end storage maker 3PAR, a competitor of EMC. Although 3PAR was eventually…