In the third quarter of 2012 worldwide server shipments grew 3.6 percent year-on-year, while revenue decreased 2.8 from the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner.

Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu winners as storage market weakens
Growth in the storage market slowed down during the third quarter, but vendors such as Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu still …

The 8 best laptops and Ultrabooks available today
Have you picked up your laptop lately? If it’s getting long in the tooth, it’s probably as heavy as it …

More fireworks
It’s not just data that’s exploding as storage vendors set off fireworks to celebrate a lucrative year in the Middle …

Top 10 tech stories of 2012
Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace …

Dell’s acquisitions not yet paying dividends
Dell’s effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy …

Apple and Samsung are the kings of personal devices: IDC
Apple and Samsung have emerged as the global kings of smartphones, tablets and PCs even though the two vendors have …

Avnet collaborates with NVIDIA
Avnet Technology Solutions has announced that it has joined the NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Partner program to help high-performance computing (HPC) customers drive …
Channel superstars honoured at Reseller Hot 50
The inaugural Reseller Hot 50 Awards were presented last evening at a glittering ceremony held at the H Hotel in …

Security without compromising performance
IT managers in corporate and mid-size businesses have to balance both network performance and network security concerns. While security requirements …

Red Hat rolls out private PaaS
Red Hat officially jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market yesterday. Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application …

Alcatel-Lucent enters crowding SDN field
Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability …

Supercomputers face growing resilience problems
As supercomputers grow more powerful, they’ll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. …

Anonymous attacks against Israeli sites continued Friday
Anonymous-led denial of service attacks continued unabated for the second day Friday against Israeli government and corporate websites in retaliation …

Brocade appoints new EMEA channel head
Brocade has announced the appointment of Thomas Langkjaer as Channel Sales Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Alain …

Intertec to host storage forum
Intertec, in collaboration with HP, VMware & Veeam is jointly organizing an exclusive seminar on ‘scale & standardise with converged …

Lenovo sees profit growth dip in Q2
Lenovo said its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13 percent year-over-year, marking a shift from …

Cambium Networks launches wireless solution
Cambium Networks has unveiled the Canopy PMP 450, a new platform designed to satisfy the ever-increasing desire for bandwidth among …

Intel improves performance, drops price on enterprise SSDs
Intel yesterday announced SSD DC S3700 solid-state drives with up to 800GB of capacity, designed to deliver improved performance and …

Asus unveils Windows 8 line-up
Asus today unveiled a completely new line-up of Windows 8 products, including notebooks, tablets, all-in-one PCs and a unique dual-screen …



