Australian PC market in the red but netbooks up
The Australian PC market suffered a three per cent drop in Q1, 2009 but is already on track to resume growth, according to analyst firm, IDC.
The Australian PC market suffered a three per cent drop in Q1, 2009 but is already on track to resume growth, according to analyst firm, IDC.
Mobile carriers need to get their collective act together with backhaul equipment if they are to keep up with increasing wireless demands, according to IDC.
IT shops are seeking loans and lease agreements in rapidly increasing numbers as they struggle through a recession. The worldwide market for IT financing and leasing is set to exceed US$100 billion in calendar year 2009.
Hard times are driving large enterprises to patch holes in their storage architectures with systems designed for small and medium-sized businesses, one reason enterprise disk storage revenue fell 18.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to research company IDC.
The Australian server market has gone to “hell in a hand basket” in the first quarter of the year, according to IDC.
The dour economy is forcing companies to consider offshore IT outsourcing in a bid to cut costs and optimise headcounts, according to analyst firm, IDC.
EMC has told partners they must make a decision on cloud computing within 36 months to stay relevant to customers.
A precipitous fall in worldwide server shipments triggered a sharp decline in revenue for server makers during the first quarter of 2009, IDC said in a survey released on Thursday.
The Serial ATA International Organization today released the SATA Revision 3.0 specification, which doubles data transfer speeds from 3Gbit/sec. to 6Gbit/sec.
VMware’s vSphere platform has been lauded by several partners and the industry as addressing key virtualisation technology issues while driving cloud computing take-up.
Sales of mobile phones across the globe will take a blow this year, but Australia is sheltered by a strong smartphone uptake, according to analysts.
The managed print services market in Asia Pacific is forecast to grow at a compound CAGR of 15.5 percent from US$419.9 million in 2008 to US$863.4 million in 2013, said IDC recently.
The 2009/10 Federal Budget hasn't been designed with ICT in mind, according to IDC research manager for IT spending, Jean-Marc Annonier.
Although an 11 percent drop in handset shipments can't be considered good news, device manufacturers can at least take solace that things weren't worse, according to a new report from ABI Research.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Citrix Systems Inc. has added new technology to its NetScaler Web application delivery appliance designed to alleviate Web servers of the burden placed on them by resource-hungry Web 2.0 applications.
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