Dell, Samsung and Lenovo record encouraging PC monitor growth despite market struggles
"Shipments were also bolstered by high volumes of renewals for devices still running Windows XP in both the public and private sectors."
"Shipments were also bolstered by high volumes of renewals for devices still running Windows XP in both the public and private sectors."
Looking ahead, Asia/Pacific is expected to reclaim the title as the biggest region for shipments in 2015, as a number of delayed projects in 2014 should resume.
The channel market represents over 40 per cent of Dell’s global revenue, making the tech giant one of the top vendors with a channel business at this magnitude.
"There were several factors that produced the strong growth in the server market in 2014."
Disaggregation seems to be all the rage in networking these days.
I recently had the great pleasure to sit down with community-elected OpenStack board member and Crowbar co-creator, Rob Hirschfeld. Rob shared awesome nuggets of wisdom on data center and cloud operations, you can view the video and the full transcript below:
The overall certified workstation market maintained its growth momentum in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), with HP remaining the leading vendor across the industry.
“Companies that are effective at leveraging Big Data are growing at a higher rate than those that are not."
“It’s not about Big Data, it’s about all data. Of all these predictions, and all the others you’ve likely read over the past month, that’s the one you can take to the bank – literally.”
"The good news is that 2015 should not contract as much as last year."
"Now that tablets have mostly penetrated some key markets, consumer spending is slowly shifting back to PCs."
IT infrastructure is constantly riding the often-tumultuous waves of consolidation and separation. A typical example would be the eras of mainframe, open systems, and PC computing. No surprise there. For the past three to five years, server virtualization has been a catalyst for data center consolidation, (even though for the most part, IT has mapped server virtualization initiatives to existing IT infrastructure choices, or dare I say legacy infrastructure).
<em>Network World's</em> analysis of publicly listed sponsors of 36 prominent open-source non-profits and foundations reveals that the lion's share of financial support for open-source groups comes from a familiar set of names.
As more and more servers are virtualized, connections between them are increasingly handled by virtual switches running on the same servers, begging the question, does <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2165935/data-center/how-facebook-aims-to-reinvent-hardware.html">the top of rack data center network switch</a><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2599508/infrastructure-management/manage-infrastructure-convergence-without-losing-your-grip.html">ultimately get subsumed into the server</a>?
"The server market continues to be deeply impacted by the shift to the 3rd Platform and the affect of mobile, cloud, social and big data analytic technologies."