• Google accelerates Android browser updates with mobile Chrome

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 February, 2012 12:36

  Google's launch today of Chrome for Android may be a move to accelerate the pace of browser updates, an analyst said.

• Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 February, 2012 00:26

  Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5.

• Apple customers voice mixed reaction to reports of poor working conditions

  By Kerry Davis, Agam Shah and Grant Gross | 27 January, 2012 09:38

  Amid renewed reports of poor working conditions at factories making Apple products in China, it's unclear whether customers will demand change.

• Net Optics acquires nMetric, targets network intelligence

  By Colin Neagle | 24 January, 2012 07:40

  In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently announced the acquisition of network analytics software provider nMetric.

• Help desks critical to BYOD efforts

  By Lee Weiner, vice president of support products, LogMeIn | 20 January, 2012 08:31

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• What's in the Tech Crystal Ball For 2011?

  By Katherine Noyes | 08 December, 2010 07:43

  Market research firm IDC makes a number of tech-related predictions near the end of every calendar year, but its prognostications for 2011 may well be among the company's most dramatic yet.

• 'Year of the virtual desktop' a flop so far

  By Kevin Fogarty | 30 July, 2010 01:56

  More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical kind, sales of desktop virtualization products are growing at a rate "that looks about the same as in 2009," according to Ian Song, analyst for International Data Corp.

• Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer

  By Bernard Golden | 08 May, 2010 00:37

  I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the "2010 Digital Universe Study".

• A Big Year for 'Socialytic' Applications?

  By Simone Levien | 29 January, 2010 08:54

  What's next for business applications in 2010? IDC Predictions 2010, a new report by IDC's Chief Analyst Frank Gens, is saying this is the year for "socialytic" apps, a "new mashed-up generation of business applications that leverage social and collaborative networks and derive insights from them." (IDC is a sister company of CIO publisher IDG.)

• 2010 tech forecasts: What the accurate analysts predict

  By Bill Snyder | 06 January, 2010 07:07

  A venerable New Year's tradition in the tech world entails trotting out year-old predictions by analyst shops and laughing at their off-base prognostications. But here's a surprise: The two biggest analyst firms still standing -- Gartner and IDC -- did a pretty good job a year ago forecasting the shape of IT in 2009, as did the smaller Forrester Research and 451 Group.

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  The Business Value of Large-Scale Server Consolidation

  This paper examines the results of an IDC study of enterprise organizations that have deployed IBM Power Systems to achieve workload consolidation, improved uptime, and reduced operational costs. These systems are highly virtualized platforms that supported consolidation of workloads and provided near-term payback from the initial investment.