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Microsoft hasn't provided many concrete details about sales and adoption of the cloud email, productivity and collaboration suite

Report claims administrative tasks are taking up too much tech staff time.

Cloud computing may be most cost-effective when restricted to smaller jobs, a USENIX researcher notes.

Global technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals grew during the first quarter of 2011 both in the number of M&A deals (up 26%) and in total value (up 124%).

The NAS devices market is not impervious to the economic slowdown but remains resilient.

It has long been said that tape can provide cost advantages over other digital forms of storage, but now two studies actually show that tape has considerable long-term cost advantages over a disk-only solution.

Businesses and CIOs will need a blend of policy and IT to help control the meteoric growth of data.

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released its fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10) SAN equipment market share and forecast report, which tracks storage area network (SAN) switches and adapters.

According to Gartner, the market for external controller-based disk storage in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) hit record revenue of US$2.53bil in 2010, a 21.2% increase from 2009.

Cloud awareness and adoption accelerates sharply among organizations in Japan, finds Springboard Research.

 
 

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