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SMBs: Choosing Your Next-Generation Storage Solution Requires Planning
Until recently storage choices were simple. The technology was the venerable hard disk array, either SAS for higher performance or SATA for slower but cheaper bulk storage. The basic calculation for all applications was $ per Gbyte, since all disk drives offered the same number and speed of IOPS within a narrow range. The main ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 22, 2013
Dell Introduces SonicWALL Hosted Email Security 2.0 Cloud Service Dell has announced SonicWALL Hosted Email Security 2.0, a cloud-based service with advanced multi-layered email threat protection backed by 24×7 online and photo support. Hosted e-mail security offers powerful inbound and outbound protection from threats including spam, phishing, zombie, and malware attacks at an affordable, predictable, ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 19, 2013
Infosys Reports Growth in Year-to-Year Profit, Revenues for FY, 3Q2013 InfoSys has reported gross profit of Rs15,072M on revenues of Rs40,352M for FY2013, up from Rs13,826M and Rs33,734M respectively. Quarterly results also showed an increase year-to-year, with 4Q13 gross profit of Rs3,652M on revenues of Rs10,454M compared to a profit of Rs2,647M on gross revenues ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 18, 2013
Yahoo! Reports 7 Percent Decrease in 1Q Earnings Year-to-Year Yahoo! Inc. has reported net GAAP revenue of $1,140 million for 1Q13, a 7 percent decrease from 1Q12. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs was $1,074 million, flat compared to 1Q12. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer said, “I’m pleased with Yahoo!’s performance for the first quarter.” More ViaWest ...
HP Moonshot Not Intended for Normal Data Center Apps Warns Scott Lowe
“Mainstream CIOs: Stay Earthbound for now — HP Moonshot is not for you” warns Wikibon Analyst, Consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe. Moonshot’s prices sound very appealing — $61,875 for a chassis filled with 45 HP ProLiant Moonshot servers with Intel Atom processes and an integrated switch. But, Lowe warns, those processors top out at ...
KPMG Partner Arrested for Insider Trading
KPMG former Partner Scott London has been arrested for insider trading, providing “not public” tips, in KPMG’s words, for cash and gifts. NPR reports those included hundred dollar bills wrapped in $10,000 bundles, and a Rolex watch worth an estimated $12,000. Evidence includes covert recordings of phone calls. London was KPMG’s lead auditor for clients ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 16, 2013
Dell & Kemp Technologies Introduce KEMP LoadMaster R320 Built by Dell Dell OEM Solutions and KEMP Technologies have announced the LoadMaster R20, a purpose-built hardware load balancing and application delivery controller based on the Dell PowerEdge R320 server and backed by Dell’s global support network. The LoadMaster R320 enables medium-to-large enterprises to assure the high ...
Avoid Software Licensing Curveballs in Citrix Environments
Citrix has numerous advantages that make it popular for virtualizing end-user environments, writes Express Metrix CEO Kris Barker in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. These include on-demand availability of critical applications; simpler, less costly desktop management; and the ability to deliver functionality to mobile devices. However, because most software is licensed using “archaic per-device licensing ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 16, 2013
HP Releases List of Supply Chain Smelters to Encourage Suppliers to become Conflict-Free HP has published a list of 195 smelters that have been identified within its supply chain in an effort to have their smelters independently reviewed and certified as conflict-free smelters (CFS). It is the first major IT manufacturer to publish its smelter ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 15, 2013
HP Helps China’s TravelSky Drive Airline Industry Evolution TravelSky Technology Ltd., China’s leading aviation technology supplier, has selected HP Enterprise Services to support development of a next-generation Passenger Services System (PSS) called “New Compass”. TravelSky serves 30 domestic airlines, 200 overseas airlines, 147 domestic airports, and 7,000 ticket agents. It provides services to 300 cities ...