April 29, 2011

Wanted: consistent market data

Publisher Len Rust

For many years information technology has been having an increasing impact worldwide, just as it has in Australia. Given this, it is somewhat surprising that nowhere has any research organisation developed a complete framework for the compilation of ICT statistics. Nor has any organisation developed any comprehensive and consistent statistical indicators about information technology.
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Gathering clouds, security and ‘dirty’ apples

BMC enhances cloud offering | Greenpeace labels Apple data ‘dirty’ | Memory Box Backup Ltd now incriptus Ltd | AVG offering free SMB security audit | Cobol facing skills shortages | 92.6% of March email spam
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IDC – Pacific PC market results

IDC's preliminary results show that the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market grew 1% sequentially and 7% year-on-year in 2011 Q1 to reach 26.8 million units.
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Green IT an increasing priority: CompTIA

Green IT initiatives will take on added importance in the next few years as more organizations commit financial resources and develop comprehensive strategies, according to a new study released this week by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the information technology (IT) industry.
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Disaster recovery in Asia-Pacific

In a recent survey across the Asia/Pacific markets, IDC uncovered that less than one third of organisations interviewed would be able to restore more than 50% of their applications in real-time should a disaster strike. This means most organisations would have less than half of their systems running in the event of a disaster.
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Global network infrastructure market snapshot

Ericsson retains a lock on top spot in global network infrastructure market, despite second-place Huawei’s impressive 30% revenue growth in 2010. ALU, Cisco and NSN round out the top 5, all with share more than 10%.
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Preparing for a carbon tax

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Aside from the obvious controversy, the Federal Government’s carbon tax could offer potential benefits for the ICT sector if it regenerates interest in green technology or sparks demands for new systems to track and measure energy consumption.
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All the bottom line action

Computershare to acquire US Mellon Shareowner Services business | Lend Lease subsidiary chosen for stage 2 Tasmanian NBN | Adelaide’s Angel Investors buy SNAP | Ergon Energy and Google partner for 3D aerial mapping project | NZ Telecom and Vodafone win $285 million deal | ABC Driving School targets Youth with Blink Mobile...
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Who’s who of Aussie ICT

VIOCORP | RISING SUN RESEARCH (RSR) | PURE COMMERCE | ARTIS | INFERENCE SOLUTIONS | CEEBRON | VIOCORP provides specialist digital broadcast video solutions to local and global corporations, governments, media companies and enterprises.
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A snapshot of technology transients this week

Kroll Ontrack Appoints APAC Marketing Programmes Manager | QUT’s Simon Kaplan to lead NICTA’s QLD lab
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