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Gartner says server slump is over as global revenues rise in Q3
Gartner Inc. has some encouraging news for all those legacy vendors out there, posting an optimistic report on the state of the global server market. According to the market watcher, the infamous eleven consecutive quarters of declining sales in the server market are history, with revenues rising by 7.5 percent, and shipments growing by 9.2 ...
Japan’s Fujitsu, Toshiba & Vaio to merge PC businesses
Japanese tech giants Fujitsu, Toshiba and Vaio are reportedly mulling the idea of merging their PC businesses, and will begin holding “specific discussions” on the idea later this month. If all goes well, the new company will launch on April 1 in time for the start of Japan’s new financial year, Nikkei reports. The plan ...
Windows Phone to decline by over 10 percent this year, says IDC
Windows Phone might not be entering a death spiral just yet, but its long-term prospects don’t look particularly great according to new data released by International Data Corporation (IDC). In IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the market watcher revealed that it’s forecasting a 10.2 percent decline in Windows Phone’s growth, pushing its overall ...
Windows 10 adoption loses pace as it captures 9% of all PCs
Depending on how you look at the stats, adoption of Windows 10 is either slowing down or well on the way towards Microsoft’s proclaimed goal of having its OS on one billion devices within two years of its release. New data from analytics vendor Net Applications shows Windows 10 is now running on nine percent ...
Report: Enterprises won’t rush into Windows Server 2016
Microsoft’s promise to add new Hyper-V capabilities to its upcoming Windows Server 2016 edition is generating the most excitement among IT pros, but very few will rush into making any deployments, according to a new study from app maker Spiceworks Inc. Although Windows Server 2016 is still at the preview stage, Spiceworks decided that people ...
Consumer SSDs will be ‘almost’ as cheap as HDDs by next year
The future is looking gloomier for hard disk drives as the price of consumer solid state (flash) drives continues to plummet. The average price of an SSD is set to hit $0.24 per gigabyte in 2016, down from $0.39 per gigabyte this year, according to new research from DRAMeXchange. And the price for SSDs will ...
Wikipedia builds its own AI system to edit bad edits
In an effort to clamp down on the number of erroneous or joke edits made on Wikipedia.com, the foundation that runs the website has built its own AI filter to keep tabs on new entries. The sheer number of daily edits on Wikipedia is staggering – there are approximately ten new entries made every second, ...
Yahoo’s chips are down as investors push to sell-off its core Internet services
Ever since she first landed the CEO job at Yahoo Inc. back in 2012, Marissa Mayer has tried all manner of tricks aimed at getting people to engage with its Internet services, like Yahoo! Mail and search. But those efforts have largely failed to Yahoo’s image of a dog that’s had its day, and now ...
Apache CloudStack announces new rapid release schedule
Although Apache CloudStack doesn’t get anywhere near as much attention as fellow open-source cloud project OpenStack, its developers continue beavering away, adding new enhancements and improvements. The latest version of the platform, CloudStack 4.6, comes with “dozens” of new features and improvements, and is the first in what will be a much more rapid roll-out ...
Dell/EMC takeover: Trouble looms on the horizon
Now that the dust has settled on Dell Inc.’s proposed $67 billion takeover of storage giant EMC Corp., it’s becoming clear that the deal is far from a foregone conclusion. Some shareholders are reportedly getting nervous over the deal due to EMC’s and VMware Inc.’s stock prices plummeting in the wake of the proposed deal. ...
