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External Disk Storage Sales Plunge 7%
The poor economy is causing the external disk storage systems market to drop, with IDC expecting a 6.7 percent year-over-year decrease in 2009. The good news is that the market is expected to increase 1.5 percent year-over-year from 2009 to 2010. End-user worldwide sales are expected to decrease 3.1 percent in 2009 over 2008, and…
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Google: Publishers’ Friend or Foe?
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked into the lion’s den yesterday, speaking at the annual Newspaper Association of America’s meeting in San Diego to assure publishers of struggling newspapers across the country that the search giant is their friend. But these are not good times for newspapers and other periodical publishers, such as The New…
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Google: Publishers Friend of Foe?
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked into the lion’s den yesterday, speaking at the annual Newspaper Association of America’s meeting in San Diego to assure publishers of struggling newspapers across the country that the search giant is their friend. But these are not good times for newspapers and other periodical publishers, such as the New…
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AMD Server Processor Discount Pits Opteron Against Intel Xeon
Processor maker AMD is offering a discount of up to 30 percent to solution builder channel partners and customers upgrading AMD Opteron server processors. By upgrading just the server processor instead of the entire server, reseller partners can help their end-customers gain significant performance improvement while at the same time saving money during a budget-strapped…
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Apple Nehalem-Based Servers Now at Resellers
Claiming an 89 percent improvement in performance per watt, Apple today announced immediate availability of its updated Xserve server that uses Intel’s Nehalem Xeon 5500 processor. It’s a message that Apple hopes will resonate with customers in education, business and creative services, where Apple is targeting the workgroup server. Resellers contacted by Channel Insider say…