Sep 3, 2010
Business Wire, 9/3/10
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 20.4%, totaling just over $5.0 billion, in the second quarter of 2010 (2Q10), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 billion in revenues, representing 20.7% growth from the prior year’s second quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 3,645 petabytes, growing 54.6% year over year.
“The first half of 2010 showed continued signs of economic recovery in the disk storage systems market,” said Liz Conner, senior research analyst, Storage Systems. “The external disk storage systems market grew 18.6% from the first half of 2009 in terms of factory revenue and 3.0% from the second half of 2009. Although the first half of 2009 was extremely weak due to the economic crisis, the gain from a relatively strong second half of 2009 shows continued customer investment and importance placed in the storage systems market.”
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Sep 2, 2010
Business Wire, 9/2/10
Despite posting impressive year-on-year growth of 20.9% during the second quarter of 2010 (2Q10), the global PC market began to reflect a more cautious outlook compared to earlier in the year. In the U.S., the consumer rally that has been crucial to the PC market recovery slowed, finally succumbing to a persistently bleak employment outlook. Slower second half growth was expected as part of the recovery cycle, however, and worldwide commercial activity remained encouraging, with a healthy number of large projects in most regions lifting Desktop PC volume over expectations. As a result of the economic jitters and adjusted segment performance, the outlook for full year 2010 PC shipments has been reduced from 19.8% to 17%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.
The onset of the recession at the end of 2008 continues to have a substantial effect on the seasonality of the market. Global PC shipment growth averaged over 14% for the six years preceding the recession. Then, from Q4 2008 through the first half of 2009, volume declined sharply year-on-year. This set the stage for a strong rebound in Q4 2009 (over 17% growth) and the first half of 2010, with a nearly 25% increase from the depths of the recession.
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Sep 1, 2010
IDC News Release, 9/1/10
The worldwide hardcopy peripherals market experienced double-digit growth in both units and shipment value in the second quarter of 2010 (2Q10). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, the total market grew 20% year over year in 2Q10 to 29 million units while shipment value increased 14% year over year to $13.3 billion. This is the third consecutive quarter of year-over-year unit growth and the first double-digit growth for both units and shipment value since early 2000.
“We expect the market will continue to bounce back throughout 2010 but competition will remain strong and emerging markets will fare better than others,” said Phuong Hang, program manager for IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker.
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Sep 1, 2010
IDG News Release, 9/1/10
SNW will take on a new look this fall with a revised conference program featuring new educational sessions, workshops and presentations focused on “Creating the Modern Information Infrastructure.” SNW Fall 2010 will take place October 11-14 in Dallas at the Gaylord Texan Hotel.
SNW Fall 2010 will spotlight IT management’s most important topics broken down into 14 separate tracks including: The Energy Efficient Data Center, Data Management, Data Security, The Converged Network, Backup and Archiving, Virtualization, The Future Data Center, Cloud Storage, Storage Management, Solid State Storage, Storage over IP, Cloud Computing, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Professional Development.
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Aug 25, 2010
IDC News Release, 8/25/10
The International Data Corporation (IDC) presented its first forecast and market landscape analysis for the U.S. employee benefits outsourcing services market and found that spending in 2010 will grow 3.8% over 2009. Additionally, IDC forecasts spending in this market segment to reach $10.3 billion in 2014, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.1%.
“The big theme for 2010 and beyond is healthcare reform,” said Lisa Rowan, program director, HR, Learning and Talent Strategies for IDC. “To grow their positions in the market and win over new clients, service providers should consider maximizing their message on compliance expertise and look to focus on lesser outsourced functions such as leave administration.”
Additional key findings from this IDC report include the following:
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Aug 24, 2010
IDC News Release, 8/24/10
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market increased 11.0% year over year to $10.9 billion in the second quarter of 2010 (2Q10). This is the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth and the fastest quarterly revenue growth since 2003, as market demand continued to improve around the world. Server unit shipments increased 23.8% year over year in 2Q10, improving slightly over the strong 23.0% year-over-year shipment growth reported in 1Q10 and representing the fastest year-over-year quarterly server shipment growth in more than five years.
Volume systems experienced the sharpest improvement with year-over-year revenue increasing 32.0%, the third consecutive quarter of positive growth for the segment. Midrange server demand improved significantly with year-over-year growth of 6.9%, the segment’s first positive growth in nine quarters and another sign of improving server market conditions. Demand for high-end enterprise systems continued to be soft, as revenue declined 23.6% when compared to 2Q09. This is the seventh consecutive quarter of contraction in the high-end enterprise server segment of the server market, most of which occurred during the economic downturn.
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Aug 23, 2010
IDC News Release, 8/23/10
In the second quarter of 2010 (2Q10), the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker found year-over-year revenue growth of 32.7% in the Ethernet switching and 11.0% in the Ethernet routing markets worldwide, reflecting continued strong performance across all regions and key product segments.
“The second quarter performance was very good, following on the heels of exceptional first quarter results for the Ethernet switch market,” said Rohit Mehra, director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure at IDC. “As seen in previous years, the second calendar quarter builds on the performance of the first, which is what the market delivered, showing strong year-over-year growth from the slowdown the market witnessed in 2009. The continued adoption of PoE (Power over Ethernet) and gigabit ethernet is also being helped by the underlying networking drivers – the growth of voice and video over IP applications, network-attached devices, virtualization, and cloud computing.”
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Aug 23, 2010
10awesome.com, 8/23/10
You know better your traffic. If your visitors come from search engines, they will be more likely to click on your banners, so you’ll get a higher CTR (click to rate). This situation is perfect for CPC (cost per click) campaigns and Google AdSense is well known for its good results. If your visitors come from various referrals or directly by tapping your blog address in the address bar, they won’t click or hardly click on these banners. What can you do? You still have some good options. In this situation, one or more CPM advertising networks will be great for you. Some of them pay really well, and don’t care about the CTR. All that really counts is your number of daily impressions, because what you’ll get is based on the CPMs.
We made a research for you. Don’t worry, we are not affiliated with any of these networks. This post is just helpful and presents ten great CPM networks. We’ve tried almost all of them, so we now what we’re talking about.
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Aug 23, 2010
DM2Media News Release, 8/23/10
IDG Enterprise CIO Forum
Executives Involved in The Campaign: Michael Friedenberg
Bob Melk
Adam Dennison
Campaign Brief: The CIO Forum was created to extend the CIO brand to new audiences, and leverage LinkedIn’s professionally-focused social media channel to grow community for content distribution, discussion and research. It has achieve resounding success on all levels.
The CIO Forum, facilitated by CIO.com/CIO magazine, is where “members of the CIO community can connect and collaborate to move their business technology initiatives and careers forward.” Membership to the group is restricted to practicing enterprise IT professionals and each application is individually vetted before access to the group is granted. Although 100-200 requests for membership are received daily, only approximately 20% of applicants are approved, as the remainder are consultants, and technology company line of business, sales and marketing professionals who would like access to this gated, concentrated IT professional forum.
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Aug 19, 2010
IDC Press Release, 8/19/10
The International Data Corporation (IDC) today announced that it has hired more than 50 research and consulting professionals worldwide during the first six months of this year. Among these new employees are 20 managers and directors, who bring years of industry experience and insight to IDC. The total also includes six analysts hired by the IDC Insights businesses and two who joined IDC’s role-based Executive Advisory Group.
The newly hired research analysts and consultants add to the expertise and depth of IDC’s research organization and strengthen IDC’s geographic presence. “The growth of IDC’s global research staff during 2010 reflects our ongoing commitment to deliver in-depth market knowledge and insight from around the world,” said Kirk Campbell, President and CEO of IDC.
IDC’s recent hires include the following senior-level research analysts and consultants
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