Data centre disruption ahead as software-defined infrastructure "completely overhauls" enterprise
“We are at the threshold of significant disruption in the data centre space."
“We are at the threshold of significant disruption in the data centre space."
IDC expects the current weakness witnessed in the desktop market will be negated by the growth of entry level notebooks and Chromebooks.
1.The concept is still quite new. The term data lake, credited to Pentaho CTO James Dixon, has been bandied about for several years. But the idea of data lakes as corporate resources is still in its infancy, according to IDC analyst Ashish Nadkarni. A data lake is defined as a massive--and relatively cheap--storage repository, such as Hadoop, that can hold all types of data until it is needed for business analytics or data mining. A data lake holds data in its rawest form, unprocessed and ungoverned.
Contrary to its 2014 performance, the first quarter of 2015 was rather tepid for the New Zealand PC market.
“Microsoft and PC vendors still need to convince users of the advantages of the new OS and new PCs, which will take some time."
Whenever Apple puts out a new product, it's going to draw headlines. There's no better example than the Apple Watch -- its first offering into the fitness market, which has a potential to be a 22 million unit market in the U.S., according to Market Strategies International.
“To understand where we’re going, we have to understand where we came from.”
World's largest companies spent $US895 billion on technology in 2014 with IT vendors of all flavours longing to harness a share of their hefty IT wallets not only for the revenue gains, but also for the bragging rights.
Microsoft faces not only its 40th anniversary in 2015, but a host of challenges that will define it for years to come, analysts said today.
"To say that 2015 will be a pivotal year in the ICT industry is a gross understatement," Gens adds.
"While premium phones aren't going anywhere, we are seeing increasingly better specs in more affordable smartphones."
"Consumer demand remained strong and was primarily driven by falling price of notebooks."
"The tablet market continues to be impacted by a few major trends happening in relevant markets."
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!" warned Abraham Simpson - of the Springfield Simpsons - way back in 1996.
In the last year or so, there has been a noticeable slowdown in innovations in new smartphones -- with both hardware and software. The next direction seems to be making the smartphone the hub for connecting technologies int eh Internet of Things scenario.