Worldwide server sales were up 14.2% in Q3 and vendor revenue spiked 15.3% to
$10.66 billion, according to Gartner, which credited data center and cloud
buildouts.
HP retained pride of place with 32.1% of the revenues, up 1.9%. All of the
top five global vendors except Oracle had year-on-year revenue increases. IBM
was number two (30.2%, off 1.5%), Dell third (14.6%, up 1.2%), and Fujitsu
fourth (4.7%, down a half a point). Oracle lost 1.2% of revenue share, a lot
when you're only left with 6.2%.
Gartner said Dell grew its shipments 22.6% and was the only top five vendor
to grow above the average. It benefited in part from a weak compare and an
increased focus on its enterprise business, which the researcher says "is
starting to pay dividends."
x86 servers were the market's main growth engine, up 14.9% in units and 29.5%
in revenues. Gartner attributed the tickled... (more)
The market for cloud technology and integrated services is currently
transforming from the hype cycle to testing, piloting, and implementation by
larger enterprises. Given the potential for significant cost savings, smaller
and medium sized organizations are also becoming early adopters of this
technology. The emerging market for cloud services is being driven by the
economic downturn in North America, continuing globalization, government
edicts, consumer acceptance of technology, and the growth of the extended
enterprise. Cloud technology enables organizations to limit the large... (more)
"Inside the Midmarket: A 2011 Perspective," commissioned by IBM and conducted
independently by KS&R, Inc., found 70% of midsize companies are actively
pursuing analytics technology to better understand their customers, make
better decisions and become more efficient. The study also shows growing
adoption of cloud computing among midsize firms, with two-thirds either
planning or currently deploying cloud-based technologies to improve IT
systems management while lowering costs.
More than half of midsize companies are planning to increase their
information technology (IT) budgets o... (more)
According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC),
cloud computing will continue to reshape the business technology landscape
over the next five years -- as spending on public cloud services expands at a
CAGR of 27.6 percent, from $21.5 billion in 2010 to $72.9 billion in 2015.
That said, apparently the trend and resulting impact of cloud services will
extend well beyond information technology (IT) spending. Managed cloud
services are a critical component in a much larger transformation that IDC
expects will be instrumental in driving IT industry growth ... (more)
Having forced a dominant player like Microsoft to open up some of its
interfaces in the name of interoperability, the European Commission is now
proposing to force any "significant" player like, oh, say, Apple and Adobe or
RIM and Nokia to open up their proprietary interfaces so it can create a
brave new kumbayah level playing field.
It forced Microsoft to do it by dint of antitrust prosecution and heavy fines
but now it's proposing to legislate the licensing of interfaces and data
formats outside of antitrust considerations by 2012.
According to EC's new digital agenda commissio... (more)
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