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Tablet Growth Powered by New Brands, Emerging Markets: NPD
Shipments of tablet PCs are expected to grow from 72.7 million units in 2011 to 383.3 million units by 2017, according to figures in the latest NPD DisplaySearch Tablet Quarterly report. Driving the demand is the continued solid growth in mature markets complemented by increasingly strong growth in emerging markets. The report said emerging markets…
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EnterpriseDB Launches Postgres Plus Cloud Database
EnterpriseDB, a provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility products and services, announced the general availability of the Postgres Plus Cloud Database on Amazon Web Services. Postgres Plus Cloud Database is an enterprise-class PostgreSQL database as a service (DBaaS). EnterpriseDB also announced that CloudBees and Engine Yard have selected Postgres Plus Cloud Database as one…
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Small Businesses Know More About the Cloud: Fonality
Small businesses are increasingly becoming educated about the benefits cloud computing holds for their companies, according to a report from Fonality, a business communications company. Fonality released the results of a survey conducted by Webtorials, which measured 2012 communications goals and challenges for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The "2012 Small and Medium-Sized Business Communications…
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Emerson Offers Avocent Data Center Planner
Emerson Network Power, a business unit of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) specializing in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, introduced the next generation of Avocent Data Center Planner, a software solution that helps enable data center managers to make informed decisions for the planning and effective management of their data center assets and physical…
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Storage, Servers, Software Boom for Avnet in Q2
The big data explosion and a growing concern in the C-suite that IT drive efficiency and productivity mean that storage is selling. And it’s selling well, according to value-added distributor Avnet Technology Solutions. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based company announced its second quarter earnings for fiscal year 2012 on Jan. 26, and storage was its big seller…
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VMware Launches Solution Exchange Cloud, Virtualization Marketplace
VMware is joining a number of other virtualization and cloud vendors in trying to leverage online marketing muscle to expand its customer base, while offering new products to its partners and developers. On Jan. 25, VMware officially launched its Solution Exchange, an online virtualization and cloud marketplace that is designed to help customers, partners and…
