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  • Hedge fund has Novell in its sights

    Revenue fell 10 percent during its most recent fiscal year wrapped up in October and its net losses widened. A hedge fund has announced a bid to take over Novell Novell, one of the earliest names in networking, is facing an unsolicited takeover bid…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Takeover • Novell • Fund • Elliott • Associates

  • Perfume business rescued from DDoS attack

    The longer we were offline, the more customers we were losing.The company estimates that the three days of the attack lost if 11 percent of its expected revenue for November and December.It's not clear why the business was singled out but it is…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Stopped • Publicising • Outfit • Dreaded • Ddos • Christmas

  • Unix server sales on decline: Gartner

    Blade server shipments grew by 11.1 percent during the quarter, while revenue grew by 22.1 percent.IBM was the top server vendor during the fourth quarter, with sales of $4.1 billion, a drop of 5.9 percent year over year and a 32.7 percent market…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Unix • Shipments • Scalable • Itanium • Hewlettpackard • Growth

  • Microsoft philosophical over cloud revenue

    Microsoft philosophical over cloud revenue John Fontana Investment in the short term to pay off in long term news Microsoft plans to invest heavily in its cloud platform but expects to see little revenue for two to three years, Bob Muglia, the…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Windows Server • Term • Shipped • Investment • Invest • Hyperv

  • UK government under fire over broadband plans

    We will give virtually everybody access to a line capable of delivering 2Mbps," he said.It should look and feel like a 2Mbps commitment as someone in areas served by those markets would understand it.However, Timms then added there was no…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Revealed • Criticised • Committee • Commitment • Charge • Broadband

  • Overland Storage unveils iSCSI SAN first

    Though that's an improvement over a $3.7 million loss in the previous quarter, the company gained ground mostly through spending cuts and layoffs.Kelly said the company has made a lot of progress over the past year, with revenue in the latest…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Sec • Networkattached • Library • Iscsi • Expansion • Array

Latest Features

  • Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

    Win the desktop war Desktop virtualisation is in the plans of many big companies, opening up big revenue opportunities for VMware and its competitors. But the industry's biggest x86 virtualisation vendor is facing a strong challenge from Microsoft…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Virtual Machine • Management Tools • Forrester Research • Cloud Computing • Apis

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    After a decade of timid stock performance, the fiscal year that ended June 2009 saw Microsoft's net revenue decrease for the first time in its history. Rather than the annual sales cycle of yesterday's software industry, Microsoft plans to capture…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

  • Inside HP's first wind-powered data centre

    HP will use the data centre to compete with companies such as IBM for IT services and management contracts, a growing source of revenue that requires secure data centres.HP is hoping several of the environmentally friendly design features of the…
    10 February 2010
    Tags: North • Installing • Facility • Facilities • Data Centres • Air

  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    Even though revenue was down in 2009, CIOs reported that transaction volumes and communications requirements continued to grow, making it imperative to focus on network technologies. Companies were renegotiating contracts, freezing salaries and…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Seek • Network World • Cycle • Contracts • Assurance

  • 10 New Year's resolutions for Google

    I am especially interested on how the company has used "free" services, underwritten with ad revenue, to stifle real or potential competition outside of its core search business. Be more proactive in dealing with government.is likely the year the…
    04 January 2010
    Tags: Microsoft Office • Solve • Privacy • Heat • Chrome • Submit

  • Amazon's cloud outage was a thriller

    Not surprisingly, the use of, and interest in, such services is growing.Even in the current recession, one performance measurement company, Keynote Systems reported $80.1 million in revenue in the last quarter, up 4% from a year ago.
    14 December 2009
    Tags: Connectivity • Readers • Firms • Locations • Component • Forrester Research
 

How-Tos

  • How to save your business money on print costs

    Document printing and processing costs are typically equivalent to 3% to 5% of a company's revenue, according to Gartner. The project is on track to save Rent-A-Center over $1 million a year, one third of its annual printing budget, in cartridge…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Copying • Productivity • Scale • Printing • Stores • Cost Savings

  • How to keep your data centre running over the holidays

    Cyber criminals have learned to hit companies with a flood of data during their highest revenue periods, attempting to extort money from the businesses in exchange for stopping the attacks.In the last year, 29 percent of companies have reported…
    10 December 2009
    Tags: Art • Firms • Defence • Spring • Learned • Ecommerce

  • How to avoid redundancy

    You cost your company a certain amount of money, but if you can show you are gaining value at no cost to them and that your knowledge will positively impact the bottom line in either cost savings or revenue growth, then you will be considered an…
    08 September 2009
    Tags: Skills • Employee • Water • Budgets • Economic • Outsourcing

  • Case Study: A pair of green-IT users

    This translates to 40 percent energy savings, says Carvallo.What's special: Uses server virtualisation to run 600 servers on just 150 physical machines, thus slicing energy use by 40 percent.What's cheap: Receives 35 percent of revenue online…
    26 February 2008
    Tags: Savings • Credentials • Utilities • Electricity • Cio • Carbon

  • Case Study: IWOOT: Using open source to give you what you want

    Sagar needed to ensure that the jWOOT3 application was continuously available as well.A jWOOT3 server outage could cost tens of thousands of pounds per hour of lost revenue as well as affecting customers' perception of the IWOOT brand.
    15 October 2007
    Tags: Node • Erp • Integrating • Business Continuity • Aspect • High Availability

  • Case Study: Overland Storage: Back on its way

    But only at first glance though: its fourth quarter (Q4) revenue down compared to a year ago with a net loss of $6 million for the quarter and $44.1 million for the full year. Full year revenue at $160.4 million was down almost $50 million on the…
    09 August 2007
    Tags: Flow • Oem • Manufacturing • Quarters • Emea • Duplication

Reviews

  • Apple Safari for Windows beta

    Because of this, some believe that one reason for Apple's sudden interest in Web browser market share may be ad-related revenue. Even the text renders the same, though there's debate over whether that's good or bad.
    15 June 2007
    Tags: Market Share • Safari • Bar • Speech • Window • Appearance

  • Second look - Palm Treo 650

    The last thing they want is for their customers to abandon call and data charges in favour of potentially cheaper and faster WiFi that minuses revenue.The problem with this perspective is that it puts the Treo design firmly in it's a fancy phone…
    26 July 2006
    Tags: Palm • Smartphone • Pdas • Wifi • Pda • Gsm

White Papers

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    Organisations can spend as much as 60 percent of revenue to acquire the goods and services necessary to conduct business. Procurement professionals are being asked to reduce the organization's overall spend, some by as much as 20 percent in a year…
    01 February 2009
    Tags: Supplier • Analysis • Accuracy • Strategic • Strategies • Goods

  • The Importance of Transparency In Industry-Standard

    By 2006 (through the first three quarters), industry-standard servers had grown to account for over 50% of total server revenue and over 90% of total units shipped. As shown in IDC's Server Tracker, in 2000, industry-standard servers represented 35…
    16 July 2007
    Tags: Conditions • Revenue • Account • Confusion • Contracts • Degree

  • The SMB Challenge: Sharpening your competitive edge through smart use of technology

    The reasoning is that IT budgets traditionally have reacted less positively to revenue increases and are usually more negatively affected by revenue declines. So, even in organizations that experienced 10 percent revenue growth, Gartner found most…
    09 July 2007
    Tags: Smb • Gartner • Opportunities • Picture • Growth • Organizations

  • Why Move from Windows NT to SUSE LINUX?

    Or they can upgrade to Windows Server 2003 and then follow a path of upgrades and service pack (SP) installations to Windows Longhorn Server over the next three to four years, while losing revenue from multiple disruptions in business.Support for…
    20 March 2007
    Tags: Fixes • Custom • Suse Linux • Service Pack

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