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Storage Wars: HP Gets a Boost in Disk Storage
Hewlett-Packard has seen some of the biggest growth in the external storage systems market, according to data provided by company officials and research firms IDC and Gartner. Wikibon’s top analyst Dave Vellante looked into the numbers and drew his own conclusions in the first post of the Storage Wars series. Vellante noted that HP is ...
HP Making Gains in the Flat Disk Market
IDC’s latest quarterly report on the global external disk storage systems pie chart reveals that the market leader is firmly holding on to its spot, while Hewlett-Packard has created itself an opportunity that may move it up the ladder in the near future. EMC is number one with the highest market factory systems revenue for an ...
Microsoft Fully Committed to Hadoop
Microsoft released their latest version of Azure, which features a lot of improvements including Hadoop integration, The new Azure now offers developers 150GB of free storage instead of the previous version’s 50GB, and access to free libraries for .NET, Java, and Node.js hosted on GitHub. The platform also features a full-featured Node.js SDK . A lot ...
More webOS Plans Emerge as HP Details its Mobile Goals
Hewlett-Packard’s move to open-source webOS may have been the best route to avoid the Palm acquisition from being written down in the history pages as a complete blunder. Now the company can refocus on monetizing its ecosystem, which will – hopefully – help flesh out the platform as it grows. SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier discussed ...
Broadcom’s Vision of 2012: More Products, Faster Speed
Networking solutions maker Broadcom will release products based on the IEEE 802.11ac wireless technology in late 2012, a few months after the standard’s ratification sometime in mid last year. The most significant improvement 802.11ac introduces over its predecessors is a major performance increase, with speeds upwards of 1GB/s. PCMag’s Mark Hachman made a comparison of ...
QLogic Offers Extended Warranty for 10GB Adapters
Networking gear vendor QLogic extended the five-year warranty available with its Fibre Channel adapter to its 10Gb Ethernet adapters – specifically the QLogic-branded 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet adapters and 8200 Series converged networking adapters (CANs). The company said this last part of the extended warranty is “unmatched in the industry. “QLogic is able to offer a more ...
Intel Slashes Outlook Due to Thailand Disaster
The flooding in Thailand has led to a decline in output for the local hard-drive manufacturing industry, which has become a sore spot for hardware manufacturers considering the plants in the nation ship the majority of the products on the market. Chipmakers have taken a direct hit, and Intel is clearly no exception. Today the ...
VMware’s Vision of the Social Enterprise: it’s All Mobile
VMware has attended a couple of events lately where company officials shed some light about the way they see how the cloud, and how user virtualization ties in to the social enterprise today, as well as discussing the impact these factors will make in the future. Tim Young, VMware’s vice president of social enterprise who joined the ...
Top iPad, Android Business Apps: Analytics on-the-go with Woopra
The featured app in this week’s list is the newly launched Woopra, an analytics app for the iPad and iPhone that compresses a Google Analytics-like service into a tablet-optimized view with a lot of graphical additions to add some extra appeal. iPad Woopra Woopra mixes together on-the-go analytics with rich visualization, an element that can ...
This Week in Cloud: Services, Analytics in the Spotlight
This week it’s all about cloud services, and an interesting push by IBM to get into the analytics world. The first two developments pertain to the accelerating open-source trend within the as-a-service space, where this approach allows vendors to offer significant advantages over closed alternatives in some cases. This week OpenLogic said it has integrated ...