GLG News by Computer Hardware Distributors

The different drivers for Enterprise and Consumer will remain stable and more dynamic on the consumer side. HDD vendors will grow constantly as data and units growth is exceeding growth by tech and price decline. New stars on storage to come up and might drive interesting aquisitions.

Soho / consumer NAS will show stable growth in high 2digits over the next years. While the competition environement has become more close over the last 2 years, this segment is still in the beginning. Iomega offers a well known brand and market awareness for the low end segment.

In depth partnership between Ciena and Hitachi Data Systems will suggest both companies are targeting the ISP / Telecommunication market and are expecting further changes in regulations how (long) critical data in the www has to be stored tomorrow.

1) Due diligence is expected and the news of tightening belts was predicted. 2) In the last quarter we have found all verticals are experiencing some level of conservative spending. 3) However, we have also seen increased spending with some vendors and/or specific vendor products and solutions. ...

I will agree, that a collapse is overkill. But I see a softening of transactions and more projects help up at CFO level and because companies can't hire, and retain talent efficiently. This talent is the hold up of implementing new technologies, none the least is datacenter challenges around power. ...

Tthey are hoping that this credit and reduction in price will increase sales since retail session begins in fourth quarter.  They made a mistake in the pricing and now they are trying correct it.  I will be curious to see if the pricing drops again in December.  My opinion is that it...

Virtualization is rapidly gaining ground in medium and large firms.  Many have deployed VMWare which enables many Operating Systems to reside on a single Server.  This technology is being installed every day in more and more date centers. Maximizing CPU utilization is a mainstream topic....

We have also seen our clients planning for data recovery under varying scenarios. As a Systems Integration Firm, we address backup and DR challenges from SMB and Enterpise clients. Data is growing rapidly and clients need ways to backup without impacting production and DR solutions that work and dont'...

1. Dell needs to move into the indirect channel to remain competitive with HP and IBM. 2. Wal Mart is not the right partner. 3. Entry level desktops are not the way to gain market share and profitability.

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