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Dell's transformation yet to stem sales nosedive
23 May 2012PC maker and aspiring IT solutions provider sees revenue drop 4%, as even business spending on PCs plummets
- Oracle releases HP documents discussing Itanium
16 May 2012 - Comms provider reopens "bomb-proof" data centre
14 May 2012 - IT glitch hits Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks
25 April 2012
IT Case Studies
How YouGov moved its IT systems from Berlin to London
13 March 2012
Thanks to its 100% virtualised IT infrastructure, polling firm YouGov could relocate its systems from Berlin to London with minimal disruption
- When data centres collide 6 December 2011
- Becoming a monster 24 October 2011
- Tesco's power analytics 23 March 2011
Perspectives & Trends
Big businesses planning data centre expansion
23 February 2012Survey finds that 85% of large European businesses plan data centre expansion in 2012, up slightly from last year, but only a quarter are certain it will take place
- The data centre advocate 14 February 2012
- Thai flooding to cause HDD shortage in 2012 10 November 2011
- Restricted view
23 September 2011
Features
Data centre power still under pressure
24 January 2012Demand for data centre capacity was tempered by economic circumstances in 2011, but power management remains the hot topic
- Centre of attention 28 July 2011
- Locking down the data centre 12 July 2011
- Criminal intent 12 July 2011
Company Analysis
Fusion-io promises to end the mainframe era of storage
19 April 2012Flash memory server device maker says decoupling storage performance from storage capacity with end the era of proprietary systems
- Inside AppSense's consumerised reinvention 2 March 2012
- Intel reveals the fruits of its McAfee acquisition
21 November 2011 - Independence for Facebook’s open source hardware project 14 November 2011
| Company | Period | Revenue ($m) | Rev Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hewlett-PackardCo | 1Q09 | $28,800.0 | 1% |
| Lenovo Group Ltd | 3Q09 | $3,592.0 | -20% |
| Quest Software Inc | 4Q09 | $201.6 | 8% |
| Unica Corp | 1Q09 | $26.1 | -8% |
| Xerox Corp | 4Q08 | $4,370.0 | -10% |
| Websense Inc | 4Q08 | $79.3 | 30% |
* Figures converted to US dollars
More Financial Results in Data Centre & IT Infrastructure| Acquirer | Target | Price ($m) |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Cassatt | n/a |
| EMC | Configuresoft | n/a |
| IBM | Exeros | n/a |
| Chatsworth Products | Epicenter | n/a |
| Rackable Systems | Silicon Graphics | $ 25m |
| Yahoo! Japan | Softbank IDC Solutions | $488.5 m |
Research
Business Applications Innovation Award
BravoSolution's e-procurement tool won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Business Applications Category
Security Innovation Award
Websense took the Information Age Innovation Award for the Security category for its integrated approach to web, email and data security
Data Centre Innovation Award
Digital Realty Trust won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Data Centre category for developing a set of standard for building sustainable data centres
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