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IDC: The Thin Client Opportunity

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IDC: The Thin Client Opportunity

According to IDC Q2 2013 global thin client and terminal client device shipments total 1.3 million units with 7.4% Q-o-Q growth-- -8.2% less than earlier forecasts from the analyst expecting further near future growth. 

IDC forecasts full 2013 shipments will reach 5.3m units with 2.1% growth, before growing by 10.4% to 5.9m units in 2014 and amounting to 8.3m units by 2017. 


Thin clients make 96% of total enterprise client devices. The standalone form factor is the largest (89%) market segment, even if the mobile form factor is slowly yet surely gathering momentum.  Read more...

IDC: EMEA Thin Clients Remain Flat

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IDC: EMEA Thin Clients Remain Flat

EMEA thin clients grow "marginally" in Q2 2013 IDC reports-- shipments reach 407417 units with just 0.1% Y-o-Y growth due to the market struggling against contracting demand.

The region sees "moderate" 4.5% Q2 2013 growth (on shipments reaching 340331 units) in W. Europe, but CEMA and the rest of MEA offset it with see extremely weak shipments. However the analyst still hopes for thin clients recovery in during H2 2013, leading to 2013 growth of 1.9%. 


HP and Dell dominate the market, with respective market share of 30.5% and 24.1%. Meanwhile NComputing sees 31.7% Y-o-Y growth in shipments and finishes in 5th place with 6.2% market share, its highest yet according to the analyst.  Read more...

Nirvanix Cloud Implodes

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Nirvanix Cloud Implodes

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix announces it is to implode unless it finds help-- and gives customers all of 2 weeks to move their data before it shuts down. 

Partner Aorta Cloud is already working on helping Nirvanix recover together with sister company Aorta Capital, with hopes to raise enough capital to run the storage provider in "sustain mode," (as in no new business) for at least of 2 months. 

“Armageddon is about to happen,” Aorta Cloud and Aorta Capital CEO Steven Ampleford tells the Wall Street Journal before admitting he has no idea what will happen to customers if they fail to recover their data by end September 2013.  Read more...

The Second Chapter of Public Cloud

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The Second Chapter of Public Cloud

According to IDC global 2013 public IT cloud service spending will reach $47.4 billion, before growing to over $107bn by 2017 with a CAGR of 23.5%-- five times that of the IT industry as a whole. 

Such growth signifies the cloud's shift into a "Chapter Two" phase-- one seeing cloud adoption become more user and solution driven, as well as bigger in scale. Meanwhile the cloud and other so-called "3rd platform" technologies (mobile, social, Big Data) become more interdependent, driving growth and innovation across all IT-dependent industries. 

"The first wave of cloud services adoption was focused on improving the efficiency of the IT department," IDC says. "Over the next several years, the primary driver for cloud adoption will shift from economics to innovation as leading-edge companies invest in cloud services as the foundation for new competitive offerings. The emergence of cloud as the core for new 'business as a service' offerings will accelerate cloud adoption and dramatically raise the cloud model's strategic value beyond CIOs to CXOs of all types." Read more...

VMware Preps Fusion 6, Workstation 10

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VMware Preps Fusion 6, Workstation 10

VMware adds Apple OS X Mavericks and Windows 8.1 support to version 6 of the Fusion virtual desktop software and launches Workstation 10, the latest version of the enterprise staple. 

The latest Fusion has two versions-- Fusion 6 and Fusion 6 Professional. Both support up to 16 virtual CPUs, 65GB RAM and 8TB storage, with an improved UI and a feature allowing Windows installation without need for a DVD. 

Meanwhile Fusion 6 Professional allows the creation of restricted and expired virtual machines. It also features a single VM mode, network editor and includes VMware Player 6 Plus commercial license keys. Read more...

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