Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:07 am

U.K. offers highly developed cross-channel shopping experience

Stamford (ip-192.com): Customers expect their cross-channel shopping experience to be seamless, contiguous and consistent, but retailers are struggling to make multichannel retailing “business as usual,” information technology research and advisory firm Gartner says. “The success of the e-commerce channel will be enhanced by a multichannel approach, where retailers leverage the store to make the e-commerce [...]

North America, Europe: MDM software sales set to grow

Stamford (ip-192.com): Worldwide master data management (MDM) software revenue will reach $1.9 billion in 2012, a 21 percent increase from 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. The software is used in organizations to ensure that only one version of the same master data is used in different parts of its operations. The market is forecast to [...]

Revenue from Ethernet services is growing rapidly

Framingham (ip-192.com): Adoption rates for Ethernet services are soaring, propelled by superior cost effectiveness, high-bandwidth scalability, ease of implementation, and overall flexibility. According to study from International Data Corporation (IDC), total U.S. Ethernet revenue will increase from $3.4 billion in 2010 to $8.2 billion in 2015. Datacenter connectivity, disaster recovery/business continuity, and data storage replication [...]

Server shipments: Revenue for IBM, Dell up, HP down, Oracle flat

Stamford (ip-192.com): Worldwide server shipments in the third quarter of 2011 grew 7.2 percent, compared to the same period in 2010, while revenue increased 5.2 percent year-on-year. “The third quarter of 2011 produced growth on a global level but there was some significant variation in growth by region,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at [...]