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Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit 2011

Cut through the hype associated with emerging technologies such as cloud computing, fabric computing and virtualization plus all your core Data Center topics including business continuity, cost optimization, licensing and sustainability at the Gartner Data Center Summit, 28-29 November in London. Registration now open.

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News

Windows hit by PC decline but Intel riding high

20 January 2012

Sales of Windows operating system hit by "softness" in PC market, says Microsoft, but Intel reports record year

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IT Case Studies

When data centres collide

6 December 2011

How Nomura got its data centre power allocation under control following the rapid integration of Lehman Brothers’ non-US business in 2008

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Perspectives & Trends

Thai flooding to cause HDD shortage in 2012

10 November 2011

The worst flooding on record in Thailand has hit the hard disk supply chain harder than the Japanese earthquake did in March, says Probrand

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Company Analysis

Intel reveals the fruits of its McAfee acquisition

21 November 2011

DeepSAFE will work outside the operating system at chip level watching the hardware for signs of malware, says Intel CTO Justin Rattner

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Features

Data centre power still under pressure

24 January 2012

Demand for data centre capacity was tempered by economic circumstances in 2011, but power management remains the hot topic

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Financial Results in Data Centre & IT Infrastructure
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

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M&A 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
Novell Fortefi n/a
     
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Research

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Business Applications Innovation Award

BravoSolution's e-procurement tool won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Business Applications Category

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Security Innovation Award

Websense took the Information Age Innovation Award for the Security category for its integrated approach to web, email and data security

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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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White Papers

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Developing ios Solutions for Business

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GPS World

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Windows 7 Professional Test Drive

Learn more about Windows 7 Professional in two ways: Get hands-on and actually "test drive"; or simply watch a video about the features.

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