December 9, 2009
IDC numbers show Dell server storage booming
The Register
Chris Mellor shares IDC’s recent research findings on quarterly disk storage revenue numbers.
“The IDC numbers refer to world-wide quarterly supplier revenue numbers for the third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of this year. In total, disk storage market terms revenues have shrunk from $6.63 billion to $6.0 billion, reflecting the recession, with HP the big cheese with $1.1 billion disk storage revenues in the third quarter this year, followed by EMC at $1.06 billion, IBM at $939 million, Dell at $786 million, NetApp at $381 million, Hitachi at $356 million, Sun at $266 million, Fujitsu at $183, and NEC at $66 million.”
Conferencing: A Key Application for Collaboration
Network World
Johna Till Johnson writes about collaboration tools in organizations.
“Enterprises are becoming increasingly virtual, with 89 per cent of organizations Nemertes works with, saying they support workgroups spread across offices, regions, time zones and often continents. As a result, IT practitioners increasingly look to provide their workers with collaboration tools that help reach a goal of eliminating distance as a barrier to progress. Conferencing applications, such as audio, video, and Web, help provide the means for distributed workers to share ideas, communicate in real-time, and meet their project and job requirements regardless of physical location.”
HTC’s next-gen Android flagship phone to debut Feb 2010
Register Hardware
Tony Smith writes that it’s believed that HTC’s working on a handset device codenamed “Passion” right now.
“Possibly that’s its go-to-market name (Passion) too – which combines Android 2.0 with a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and a 3.5in OLED display. Passion may be ‘Hero 2’ or it may not be. Certainly, there’s talk that one HTC Android smartphone due to debut at MWC will sport a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, a feature missing from Hero.”
