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Analysts Warn Vendors On Software Liability
Gartner analysts have warned software vendors to be on their guard when it comes to the promises they make to customers about their products. [...] Analysts Warn Vendors On Software Liability. eWEEK Europe UK. [...] You are here. Home News Cloud Analysts Warn Vendors On Software Liability. [...]
EMC Sees Small Private Clouds On The Horizon
In his keynote speech here on 10 May and a subsequent talk with analysts and reporters, Tucci said that, unlike that of others, EMC's vision of the future is one with many private clouds, rather than there only being handful of vendors like Amazon and Google offering massive public clouds. [...] Much of EMC's focus on the first day of the EMC World 2010 show here is on cloud computing, something that many IT vendors, analysts and others are talking about. [...]
Can Users Change The IT Climate Of Fear?
Maybe I'm misreading the signs, but it looks as if, amongst the vendors analysts (and, of course, the great and the good), Infosec's roster of speakers actually includes a higher proportion of real users this year. [...] As we enter a season of IT security events in Europe, vendors are falling over themselves to explain the security situation. But this year, I see a positive sign. This year, we are hearing more users. [...] It's always been the case that vendors drum up a climate of fear in order to profit form it. This takes the form of timed press releases on any new vulnerability, and endless research surveys that always reveal dangerous user habits, such as using pirated software, oversharing on social networks, rushing into untried areas such as the cloud or using faddy devices such as the iPad. [...]
Companies Are Embracing Public and Private Clouds
Industry observers, including analysts at Garner and Frank Gillett, an analyst at Forrester Research, have said vendors and customers need to be clear about what exactly they're talking about when discussing cloud computing deployments. [...] Enterprises are beginning to embrace cloud computing, according to a recent survey conducted by application delivery networking vendor F5 Networks. [...]
Solid State Drives Increasingly Popular But Remain Expensive
Industry analysts and vendors are predicting that solid-state disks for computing and storage are the wave of the future for laptop computers, and for a lot of reasons. [...] Our intent was to identify the true costs associated with equipping notebook computers deployed in the enterprise with SSDs, said Jack Gold, principal analyst of J.Gold Associates. Further, we wanted to determine whether extending the life of a notebook for an additional two years, as many companies are now considering, made more economic sense if the machine were SSD-equipped. [...] The research model provides a comprehensive analysis of the true costs associated with business notebook failures that reflect upon the actual usage of the deployed devices, including variations in failure rates over the life cycle, costs of repairs both in and out of warranty, IT tasks and labor rates, and end-user effects. [...]
Microsoft: Windows 2008 RC2 Will Improve Virtualisation
Analysts acknowledge that Microsoft needs a substantial OS hit after Vista, which rolled out in January 2007, failed to live up to expectations. In the wake of widely reported issues with that OS, vendors began exercising downgrade rights to install Windows XP on consumer machines. [...]
HP ProCurve Plans 3Com-Driven Assault On Cisco
According to some analysts, Cisco owns about 52 percent of the networking market, while HP and 3Com have been a distant second and third, followed by a host of other vendors. Combined, HP and 3Com will have about 20 percent of the market. [...]
Microsoft’s XP Deadline Is A Green Timebomb
And we have not seen the mass upgrades and hardware refreshes despite numerous predictions by analysts and vendors over the last six or seven years. Such a refresh ought to create a flood of obsolete PCs, but a contact who runs a charity that takes reconditioned PCs from UK organisations to the developing world says he has been waiting in vain for years for refresh to materialise. [...] With Windows XP getting older and Windows 8 nowhere in sight, organisations need to be planning their migrations to Windows 7, advises Michael Silver, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. [...] Based on the typical PC refresh rate, many organisations will not be able to get Windows XP out by their target end date by moving to Windows 7 by attrition alone, the analyst warns. [...]
Cisco’s Virtualisation Move Gets A Mixed Reaction
Analysts approve of the move, and rival vendors are keen to point out flaws in the project. The one beta tester we have spoken to, Savvis, has given the system a preliminary look-over and is keen to find out more. [...] Analysts love Cisco's move into the data centre, and the competition are picking holes in the strategy - while beta testers say it looks promising. [...]
McNealy And Ellison Share Stage At Java One
Since the announcement of the acquisition, there has been speculation by analysts and industry insiders that Oracle may want to break off Sun's hardware franchises and sell them to other vendors. Ellison, however, said shortly after the transaction was announced that he intends to do no such thing. [...] Netbooks are smaller, relatively inexpensive laptop computers with wireless connectivity that are good for checking e-mail and browsing the Web. Analysts expect the netbook market to grow to about 25 million units sold in 2009, up from 11.7 million in 2008. [...]
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