Tape Data Storage Remains an Enterprise IT Workhorse After 60 Years

— It's no secret that explosive data growth and shrinking IT budgets are putting pressure on companies to find creative storage solutions to meet their organizational demands. Despite vocal naysayers from the spinning-disk school, tape storage& which turns 60 years of age in 2012& continues to hold its own, by an...

Tablets, Smartphones Bolster Mobile Memory Semiconductor Market

— The success of the iPhone and iPad, as well as Android smartphones, is boosting the mobile memory semiconductor market, iSuppli reports. - The mobile memory semiconductor space is set to experience healthy revenue growth in the next few years, thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and tablets like the iPad, acc...

Arup outsources data centre to Vtesse, to cope with growth

— More cost-effective than refurbishing existing space

Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy

— Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.

IBM Building New Research Lab in the Philippines

— IBM announced that it is working with the Philippine government to build a new research and development lab to spur economic growth in the region. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Philippines Department of Science and Technology signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to establish the first Philippine Systems...

Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues: IDC

— The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $77 million in 2011 to $812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 percent, according to analyst firm IDC.

Cisco and the Networking Industry: Golden Age or Golden Fleece?

— A recent and rather ambitious outlook on Cisco at Motley Fool entitled “Cisco and the Golden Age of the Internet “ talks about the rise in internet traffic and the growth potential it holds for companies like Cisco.  While the article does mention competitive pressures (from the likes of IBM, HP, DELL and JNPR), i...

Big Bucks for Virtustream & Webinar

— We're on a roll, Virtustream has secured an additional $15 million dollars in  venture capital funding, bringing our total equity raised to $75 million to date.  We'll be using the funds to further accelerate Virtustream's growth, accelerate development of our xStream cloud solution, expand our geographic cov...

Dell: U.S. job growth is in services, not manufacturing

— Michael Dell, the chairman of the company that bears his name, does not see manufacturing as a big job creator for the U.S. To him, job growth will be in services and adoption of new technologies

High-Performance Computing Customers Gain Greater Capabilities to Address Big Data Requirements Through NetApp’s Collaboration with OpenSFS and EOFS Communities

— Cooperative Efforts with Industry Leaders Underscore NetApp’s Commitment to Support Growth and Expansion of Lustre

IBM to Benefit from Unix Server Market Growth

— For the foreseeable future Unix server market growth will be enjoyed by IBM.

Realizing Cloud for the Enterprise

— Most organizations today continue to view technology as merely a back-office cost center, a viewpoint that diminishes the breadth of Enterprise IT's impact on a firm's competitive profile. To contribute to strategic growth, IT's role has to be understood as far more than a repository of software and hardware applicatio...

No Barr to growth

— Fujitsu Siemens Computers will supply a data centre upgrade to AG Barr.  The six-figure deal will cover new servers and storage to replace existing Fujitsu Siemens Computers hardware serving AG Barr’s four production sites at Cumbernauld, Mansfield, Forfar and Pitcox.