Server Market Declines for Second Straight Quarter Says IDC

Posted by on May 31, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

In a somewhat surprising turn, the market for traditional servers fell for the second straight quarter, IDC reported this week. First a look at the numbers (as they say on Marketplace). According to a statement from IDC, “Factory revenue in the worldwide server market decreased 2.4% year over year to $11.8 billion in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12).” And sales were in decline everywhere whether it was in the US, Europe or even Asia where China has reportedly been spending more than a billion dollars a quarter on servers. At a time when cloud computing and Big Data are all the...

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Keeping Pace in a Shifting IT Ops Landscape

Posted by on Dec 21, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

I don’t have to tell you about the pace of change. Chances are if you’re reading this blog, you have job in IT or technology and you see it all around you every day — and this so true on so many levels. First of all there’s the hardware side of things. You used to control every piece of equipment used in your company from PC to cell phones. Five years ago, I’m betting your users probably had a Blackberry phone, a ThinkPad laptop and a Dell or HP on the desktop. It was probably running Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office from a server in your data center. You...

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Getting to the Data That Matters Most

Posted by on Oct 21, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment

By now, you’ve probably heard of the term “Big Data,” which describes the huge data sets that are available into today’s enterprise environment. On a micro level, you could argue that there’s too much monitoring data to process and it’s resulting in a forest/trees scenario where you’re not sure what you’ve got. In most instances, when it comes to monitoring you probably want to get as much information as you can. If you’re doing a post-mortem to figure out what went wrong when your mission critical application crashed, you want to get down...

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HP Tablet Fire Sale Blows Up Web Site

Posted by on Aug 23, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments

When HP put its 16GB TouchPad tablet on deep clearance for $99 this past weekend, customers came in droves. Unfortunately, the web site couldn’t handle the additional load causing embarrassment for HP on a number of levels. HP sells monitoring tools. It also sells cloud infrastructure and cloud services. It missed the opportunity to show off both. As Lawrence Dignan pointed on ZDNet, the problems began on Saturday, starting with shopping cart issues. “On Saturday, HP had a cart glitch that where the company’s systems wouldn’t recognize the liquidation prices,”  Dignan...

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