Sometimes the quick marketing of new technologies can mask the real issues.
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are pushing server sales to new heights, despite the growing adoption of virtualisation technology.
The high-tech world has seen highflying dot-coms crash and burn, e-commerce stumble, and PC sales slow down. But storage vendors are geared up to continue their strong march this year.
Hewlett-Packard announced on Friday an overhaul of its high-end computing group, including a move that more tightly aligns the sales efforts of that unit with HP's services effort.
Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic symposium in Sydney.
People were apparently switching their brains off before joining the 3G iPhone queues, so it's somewhat surprising that considering an appropriate amount of storage was quite a high priority for many buyers.
Plans by the Australian Tax Office to track the purchase and sale of investment properties might make a few money-minded Australians nervous, but they represent a potential bonanza for storage vendors and business intelligence firms.
Managers in charge of storage have a lot to worry about, but there seems no particular reason why people in this corner of the world should be more concerned about security than anything else. Why is it that securing our data matters more to us than accessing it?
Are ICT, IT&T and plain old IT interchangeable? Or is it time for a new name?
More than a week has passed since EMC boss Joe Tucci answered some of my questions on virtualisation, and I'm still pondering them.
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.
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.
Worldwide sales of external disk storage systems hit US$3.5 billion in the second quarter, up 8 percent from the same period a year ago, according to research firm IDC.
The market for storage management software grew to US$5.6 billion in new licence revenue in 2004, up from US$5 billion from the previous year, according to new data from Gartner.
When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.
When businesses scaled out their server infrastructure, Dell rode high, but the arrival of virtualisation is hurting its server sales. Despite this, Dell's president, Asia Pacific South, Paul-Henri Ferrand says the world will need more of its servers and storage in the future.
The companies officially embark on a new joint venture for their flash-memory products.
Steve Turvey of RMIT IT Test Labs provides an indepth view of the latest technologies to hit Australia.
Advanced Micro Devices is rearranging its memory business.
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