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• Server market revenues taking a pounding

  IDC has confirmed earlier figures from Gartner that Sun’s server revenues have taken a pounding, down 35 per cent for the year to Q3 2009.

• Flash storage should be among top data center priorities: Gartner

  Flash-based storage will quickly become one of the most important technologies in the data center, according to Gartner.

• Falling PC Prices Pit Microsoft Against PC Makers

  Last week, research firm Gartner released a PC sales forecast that initially sounded like good news for Microsoft and its hardware partners, but likely indicates trouble ahead.

• Top data center challenges include social networks, rising energy costs

  Enterprise data needs will grow a staggering 650% over the next five years, and that's just one of numerous challenges IT leaders have to start preparing for today, analysts said as the annual Gartner Data Center Conference kicked off in Las Vegas Tuesday morning.

• Computerworld Top 10 Most Influential 2009 — #8 Netbooks

  Computerworld's Top 10 Most Influential for 2009 continues with our 8th place: Netbooks. As the year draws to a close, it is time to recognise the people, products, organisations, trends and events that have had the greatest influence on the ICT industry and community. We have therefore launched the inaugural Computerworld Top 10 Most Influential.

• Gartner buying AMR Research in $64 million deal

  Gartner announced Monday that it is buying AMR Research for US$64 million, in the latest acquisition by the giant IT research firm. The deal is expected to be completed this month.

• Sun's share of servers still slipping

  Sun Microsystems share of the overall server market continues to slip away according to global results released by analyst firm Gartner.

• IBM stays tops as server market stabilizes, Gartner says

  IBM retained its narrow lead over Hewlett-Packard in the worldwide server market as sales began to stabilize during the third quarter, Gartner said Monday.

• Is unified communications still relevant?

  Debate over the significance of Unified communications (UC) as a technology continues with Gartner and Frost & Sullivan arguing that its is respectively, no longer a strategic priority and its an evolving technology still worth watching.

• Organisations should prepare for the NBN now: Gartner

  Enterprise network users must evaluate their attitudes, relationships and approaches to sourcing networking services in Australia, because of the radical NBN-fuelled changes emerging in the telecommunications environment.

• PC market crash averted, says Gartner

  Reversing earlier doom-and-gloom forecasts, Gartner now projects that global PC shipments will grow 2.8% this year.

• Consumer tech greens up the enterprise "collaboration desert": Gartner

  Consumer technology is leading the way in greening the ‘collaboration desert’ that currently exists in the enterprise, according to Gartner analyst, Robin Simpson. Speaking at the firm’s Symposium in Sydney, Simpson said consumer technology had developed a range of collaboration capabilities in recent years and there was lots of potential for those tools to fill the collaboration gap in the enterprise.

• Money transfers to become hottest mobile app, says Gartner

  Money transfers and payments over mobile phones will be among the top 10 most important mobile applications by 2012, market research company Gartner said on Wednesday.

• Governments the greatest inhibitors to Governemnt 2.0

  Governments’ responsibilities and polices toward citizens may be the biggest impediment to the adoption of successful Government 2.0 around the world, according to analyst firm, Gartner. Speaking at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney, analyst Andrea Di Maio, said governments would have to learn to cede more control to citizens if they wanted to pay more than lip service to the idea of a more open, citizen-driven approach to information sharing.

• Will Apple ever become a viable enterprise technology?

  The Great Debate between Gartner senior analysts, Nick Jones and Robin Simpson, was fierce and fiery and is sure to ruffle the feathers of IT managers and employees alike: Will Apple ever become a viable enterprise technology? The question is not new, but as the iPhone sneaks into the operating environment in spite of IT managers' wishes, it's a question worth asking anew.