Strong Rebound in EMEA Server Market in 3Q10 With Revenue Up 6.4% Annually and Shipments Back to Double-Digit Growth, Says IDC

Strong Rebound in EMEA Server Market in 3Q10 With Revenue Up 6.4% Annually and Shipments Back to Double-Digit Growth, Says IDC

According to International Data Corporation-s (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Server Tracker, EMEA server revenue in the third quarter of 2010 reached $3.1 billion, up 6.4% on the same quarter last year. The number of servers shipped was up 10.2% year on year after nearly 550,000 were sold. The strong results, with shipment volume back to double-digit growth, and revenue growth also significant, must be read in the context of a very weak third quarter last year, favoring year-to-date comparisons. When loo

Gartner Says Worldwide External Controller-Based Disk Storage Market Revenue Grew 16 Per Cent in the Third Quarter of 2010

Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage revenue reached $4.6 billion in the third quarter of 2010, up 16 per cent from nearly $4 billion in the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner, Inc.
While the ECB disk storage market declined in 2009, these 2010 results are also an increase from 2008. Third quarter 2010 worldwide ECB disk storage revenue was up 8.4 per cent over the third quarter of 2008 revenue of $4.3 billion.
Except for the Europe, the Middle East an

Heraeus acquires Clevios, expanding its product lineup for the electronics industry

Heraeus acquires Clevios, expanding its product lineup for the electronics industry

By acquiring H.C. Starck"s Conductive Polymers Business Group, Heraeus is engaging in targeted expansion of its product portfolio as the world-s leading provider of high-quality coating materials for important growth markets in the electronics industry. The range of products sold under the brand name Clevios? will be expanded with new, innovative, and customer-specific applications for functional coatings, especially in the electronics, display, glass, and solar industries.

Dr. Roland Ger

BeamYourScreen Awarded ISO 9001 Certification

BeamYourScreen Awarded ISO 9001 Certification

The provider of online meeting services, BeamYourScreen GmbH, has received the ISO 9001 Certification, one of the most internationally recognized and sought-after awards for quality management. Receiving this Certification is a great honor for not only the people of BeamYourScreen, but also for external interested parties as it assures people worldwide that the company has fulfilled the highest quality management requirements.

Information Workbench Now Available as Virtual Appliance on Amazon EC2

Information Workbench Now Available as Virtual Appliance on Amazon EC2

Walldorf, Germany – December 1st, 2010 – fluid Operations is glad to announce that the Information Workbench is now freely available in the form of an EC2 virtual appliance. The Information Workbench is a platform for Linked Data application development, pursuing the goal to lower the entry barrier into the world of Linked Data and to leverage its benefits. By providing a semantic metadata management layer, it can integrate heterogeneous data sources and correlate and manage the data residing wi

IDC Energy Insights: New Vendor Assessment Report Provides Competitive Analysis of Top 15 EMEA Utilities Vendors

.2010 – IDC Energy Insights announced today the availability of a new study, Vendor Assessment: 2010 Competitive Analysis of the Top 15 IT Vendors in the EMEA Utilities Industry (Doc # EIOS06S) that examines IT vendors- presence in the EMEA utility sector.
According to IDC Energy Insights, these top 15 IT vendors generated in 2009 revenues for$8.6 billion in the EMEA utilities market, and include: Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, Atos Origin, BT, Capgemini, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Logic

Erich Sartori, one of the first programmers

Erich Sartori, one of the first programmers

Karlsruhe Germany, November 30th 2010 – Erich Sartori is one of the technical godfathers of the abas Business Software. Sartori is an IT specialist through and through: ”If I am able to program something complex which I feel will bring the user an advantage, it‘s a great feeling for me.“ He never had the urge to take over managerial organizational responsibility in the past 30 years. He was always drawn toward the challenge of testing his IT skills on a complex task.

Peter Walser, CTO of ABAS Software AG

Peter Walser, CTO of ABAS Software AG

Karlsruhe, November 30th, 2010 – Peter Walser has been the Chief Technology Officer of ABAS Software AG since 2007. His rise to the top at the software provider in Karlsruhe was gradual but continuous. In 1983 the computer scientist got to know the company as a student. The foundation for the upgradeable business software had just been laid when he started working in development after finishing his degree. The objective pragmatist developed alongside the growing ERP software and started to be in