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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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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,…
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Polycom’s HP Video Collaboration Buy Ups Ante Against Cisco
Polycom is buying Hewlett-Packard’s video collaboration business and expanding its partnership with Microsoft as it looks to bolster its competition with Cisco Systems in the fast-growing visual communications market. The moves, announced June 1, came at the same time that Polycom officials said they were partnering with a wide range of service providers—including AT&T, BT…
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Logitech Preps LifeSize Video Conferencing Push
Peripheral manufacturer Logitech has traditionally played in the consumer and SMB spaces, but the company will be pushing further into the enterprise space in the coming weeks and months with news related to its 18-month-old acquisition of LifeSize. Part of that news, which Logitech and LifeSize representatives wouldn’t spill, is a new focus on enterprise…
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Better Web Browsing
Better Web Browsing Microsoft has made it clear that the Internet is going to play an important role in its upcoming “Mango” update. In fact, the company said that when users surf the Web, they will be able to engage in a “hyperlocal” search of content, as well as take advantage of Bing’s many services,…
