Nathan Eddy

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Third-quarter revenue in the worldwide server market increased 4.2 percent over the same quarter last year, to $12.7 billion, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Although this is the seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, it is the slowest quarterly growth rate since the market recovery began in the first quarter of 2010, […]

Solid-state drive technologies and products specialist STEC announced that its ZeusIOPS SSD family has been expanded to include an ultra-high-endurance model. Purpose-built for write-intensive enterprise applications, the company’s ZeusIOPS XE (Extreme Endurance) SSD is a Multi-Level Cell (MLC) flash-based drive that uses STEC’s CellCare technology to enable at least 30 full-capacity writes per day for […]

In its inaugural Global Cloud Index (2010-2015), Cisco estimated global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate. One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes. To put that in perspective, 1.6 zettabytes […]

Global enterprises are shifting to mobile-only communications more rapidly than expected-as well as adopting unified communications services more broadly, according to the results from the BroadSoft (NASDAQ: BSFT) 2011 Mobile Enterprise of the Future Survey. Notably, 25 percent of enterprise IT decision-makers believe desk phones will be replaced by mobile phones within two years, and […]

Cloud and IT monitoring software solutions specialist Zyrion announced the availability of the Traverse Automation Module that is designed to simplify monitoring the performance of distributed, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures. Following up on Zyrion’s launch earlier this year of the “Data Capture and Processing” module for seamless monitoring of cloud technologies such as VMware, Xen and […]

Cisco Systems, Google Ventures and VMware were among the companies that have invested $8.5 million in the latest round of funding for Puppet Labs, which makes IT automation software for system administrators. Puppet Labs on Nov. 29 announced the closing of the Series C financing, with Cisco, Google and VMware joining existing investors Kleiner Perkins […]

Integration is the most common hurdle in the sales process for software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud providers, according to a recent study by strategic consulting services company ThinkStrategies and cloud integration provider MuleSoft. Almost 90 percent of respondents consider integration to be important or extremely important in winning new customers, found the study, which focused on […]

WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of business security solutions, unveiled its latest security operating system for the XTM line of unified threat management appliances. With this release, businesses gain advanced networking capabilities for mobile workers, as well as enhanced management and reporting functions that provide insight into applications, bandwidth usage, user behavior and more. The release […]

Cloud-based Web and mobile acceleration services specialist Cotendo is being wooed by three companies, according to a report in the Calcalist financial daily reported on Sunday. Cotendo customer AT&T, Juniper Networks and Akamai, a company that develops software for Web content and application delivery, are vying to acquire the company, though the report states specifically […]

Semiconductor manufacturer AMD announced the availability of the first AMD Memory branded desktop system memory modules, debuting with partners Patriot Memory and VisionTek Products. The Memory branded products are designed to help take the guesswork out of DRAM selection, providing an improved experience when looking for the match for gaming or multimedia PC needs. The […]

This past weekend’s Black Friday holiday shopping kickoff didn’t disappoint for consumer electronics products, as deep discounts kept consumer purchases robust, with HD televisions, digital cameras and MP3 players accounting for top sales categories, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. Various reports found an increase in mobile shopping as well as an increase in the […]