Apple's share of the Australian personal computer market has jumped sharply in the last year, according to statistics released this week by Australia's two largest technology analyst firms.
Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today.
Disk storage systems revenue slipped slightly in the third quarter amid soft demand, but there's hope in sight, according to a report from research firm IDC.
In what it claims is a victory for the direct sales model, Dell Computer is crowing about recently-released figures from IDC that show it has taken the title of number one Australian PC supplier from long-time supremo, Compaq Computer.
The Australian PC market for the second quarter 2003 has increased by 20.9 percent over the same period last year, according to IDC.
Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
Big Blue extended its lead in the second quarter of 2003, stealing a sizable slice of the global market for the powerful computers away from Sun Microsystems, a new study shows.
Strategic sales of more expensive servers indicates the "Band-Aid approach" of recent years is waning, analyst says.
Low cost is always cited as the top reason that enterprises choose Linux clusters. But the promise of new, advanced management tools and scalability capabilities is also spurring increased interest and attention
Gus Robertson, Red Hat's vice president for South Asia-Pacific, wants to displace Unix and not Windows as the main enterprise OS but does the Linux vendor have what it takes?
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Australian computer vendors can expect poor sales for the second quarter of 2001, according to forecasts outlined in a report on the PC market's performance, released by IT industry analysts International Data Corporation (IDC).
After adding it back as an option for small businesses, Dell offers the older OS on consumer machines in response to demand in the US.
Dell temporarily pulled from its US Web site an operating system fix for its Axim X5 handhelds after some people used the patch to do unauthorised upgrades from older versions of the OS.
The group behind the DVD+R/+RW specification said dual-layer recordable discs will hit the market next year, allowing storage of up to 16 hours of recorded video.
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