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The Story No One Cares About: PC Sales at lowest number since 2007

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The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. We recommend tracking the trends and building projections along these lines of analysis: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. Bob Gourley.

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio » Data Center Knowledge

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At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. ” The three key tenets of the EMC Protection Storage Architecture are protection storage, data source integration and data management services. .

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DreamWorks "Turbo" Accelerated By HP » Data Center Knowledge

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DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. We’re reducing the amount of hardware that we need, and increasing agility by using the cloud to replicate business processes. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87).

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SolidFire Raises $31 Million, Says Its SSD is Now Cheaper Than Disk

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They have demonstrated clear technological leadership with their patent pending QoS capabilities, and true scale-out architecture. The SF9010 really highlights SolidFire’s storage architecture in action,” said SolidFire Founder and CEO, Dave Wright. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112).

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Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services » Data Center.

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With software defined infrastructure as the strategic foundation, Bryant explained plans for how Intel will invest in rack scale architecture, big data and high performance computing (HPC) technologies. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112). September 2007 (82). August 2007 (99).

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Department of Veterans Affairs Cancels $36 Million Cloud Contract

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As FCW points out, the VA’s Deputy CIO for Architecture, Strategy and Design, Paul Tibbits, told an audience at 1105 Media’s Enterprise Architecture Conference that he questioned the cost-effectiveness of moving to the cloud. December 2007 (95). November 2007 (87). October 2007 (112). August 2007 (99).

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