December 7, 2012 7:00 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ChannelTechnology solution providers representing the Microsoft Office 365 cloud applications suite for small businesses should take note of a huge change in the competitive landscape.
This week, Microsoft rival Google stopped offering a free version of its Google Apps for small businesses, saying that...
November 30, 2012 8:03 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ChannelWithin four weeks of its launch, Windows 7 managed to capture 83 percent of Windows device hardware sales in the retail channel. But Windows 8 has so far fallen short of that market: it accounted for about 58 percent of Windows sales within the same timeframe, reports NPD Group.
November 16, 2012 6:52 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ChannelThe latest America Recycles Day came and went this week, with the requisite flood of press releases about electronic waste (aka e-waste) flooding my email inbox.
That's because the high-tech industry continues to churn through and discard a troubling...
November 9, 2012 7:19 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Channel,
cloud computing services,
cloud infrastructure,
IDC,
public cloudThe latest prognostication about public cloud computing from IDC calls for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.5 percent between now and 2016 - with$43.2 billion in revenue anticipated by the end of the forecast period....
November 2, 2012 8:36 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ChannelFor years, I have been watching all sorts of research predictions about IT spending plans. But for the past three or four years, I have put less credence in them.
That's mainly because I feel that focusing strictly on what businesses are saying they intend to spend for hardware or software or...
October 26, 2012 7:59 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ChannelEvery fall, many CIOs and information managers flock to the annual Gartner conference to hear the research company's proclamations and predictions about the IT world for the upcoming year. I won't regurgitate all of the items on the latest...
October 19, 2012 2:45 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ChannelThere is no denying the fact that direct purchasing and retail channels account for a larger portion of IT hardware sales than in the past, but small and midsize businesses (SMBs) prefer to work with VARs and systems integrators to define their strategies for networking, storage and server...
October 12, 2012 4:32 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Channel,
consolidation,
converged data center,
data center,
IDCMore evidence of how software as a service and other forms of cloud computing are reshaping IT infrastructure is out this week in the form of IDC data showing that the number of data centers started shrinking in 2009.
That's...
October 5, 2012 10:49 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ChannelHow many other IT product sectors can claim nine quarters of consecutive year-over-year sales growth?
Worldwide revenue for security appliances rose 6.3 percent during the second quarter, compared with the same time period in...
