EMC led the global storage software market in Q4 2005 with 29.2% revenue share. Symantec took the second position with 19.7% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 11.5% revenue share, posting a strong result of 32.6% YTY growth. Network Appliance and HP once again rounded the...
IDC reports that EMEA WLAN customer revenue increased by 33% to $665.8 mln during Q4 2005, compared to $499.5 mln in Q3 2005. The total EMEA market revenue reached $2 bln in 2005, representing a growth of 52% compared to 2004. Revenue for WLAN infrastructure increased by 46.6%, while revenue...
In Q4 2005 the LAN switch market in EMEA continued to grow in terms of both port shipments and revenues. Port shipments increased by 10.6% from 18.5 mln ports in Q3 2005 to 20.5 mln ports in Q4 2005, and revenues increased slightly by 0.8% to $1,267.5 mln in Q4...
Following 10 consecutive quarters posting positive annual growth, the EMEA server market ended 2005 with a revenue slowdown. Factory revenue generated by server sales declined by 4.4% in Q4 2005 over Q4 2004 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to IDC. Unit shipments in EMEA, however, continued to...
The server blade market showed continued growth in Q4 2005, with shipments increasing by 49.3% YTY and factory revenue gaining 56.9% YTY, IDC says. Overall, blade servers, including x86, EPIC and RISC blades, accounted for $667 mln in Q4 2005, representing 4.6% of quarterly server market revenue. IBM maintained the...
Total Ethernet switch revenue in Q4 2005 grew about 3% from Q3 2005, but revenue from sales of fixed managed Fast Ethernet switches increased 5%, according to Dell'Oro. This type of switch accounted for about 57% of all Ethernet switch ports sold.
Apple keeps seeing strong growth of its iPod and Macintosh computer lines. And this week it will release Mac OS X Leopard, which unlike Microsoft's experience with Windows Vista early in the year, should be another winner for Apple. But will Cupertino do as it has done in the past...
Open source in its boom phaseBoom? Is that what happens when it goes up in smoke?If there is a boom in open source I can't tell. The numbers in the market haven't changed much at all. Unfortunately with some open source moving to the GPL-3 we'll never...
Before the new year, Fast Company magazine asked for my take on Google’s prospective financial performance in 2007. In “Google due for a fall?” I present my analysis of GOOG 2007:In 2007, GOOG will be negatively impacted by a continued decline in the growth rate of Googles earnings per...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt began yesterday’s 2006 Q4 report to Wall Street with a familiar refrain:"Business continues to be very, very good here at Google and we are very happy to present another very strong performance from the company."How good? Google reported revenues of $3.21 billion for the quarter...
Parsing Skype parent eBays 4Q and 2006 earnings reports today, we learn that: Skype net revenues totaled $66 million in Q4-06, a growth rate of 164% over the $25 million reported in Q4-05. The Q4-05 revenue amount represented the operations of Skype from the acquisition date of October 14,...
According to IDC, a strong finish to the year saw Asia-Pacific disk storage customer revenue for the calendar year 2005 increase by 22.4% over 2004, from $1,573 mln to $1,926 mln. Q4 2005 recorded the fastest quarterly growth rate in external disk systems, based on end-user revenue, increasing by 25.4%...
According to IDC, the worldwide storage software market grew 11.2% YTY to $2.4 bln in Q4 2005, marking nine consecutive quarters of double-digit YTY growth. For the full year 2005, storage software revenues totaled $8.9 bln, injecting nearly 1 bln dollars of new revenue into the marketplace and growing 12.6%...
IDC says that in Q4 2005 the EMEA router market grew strongly by 12.3% to $1.3 bln compared to $1.2 mln in Q3 2005. The small SOHO segment, the largest segment measured in revenue in Q4 2005 and which includes wireless routers, increased a whopping 53.2% from $360.5 mln in...
The Windows server market continued to show solid growth, with factory revenues increasing by 4.7% YTY. Overall, Windows servers accounted for $4.9 bln in Q4 2005, representing 33.6% of quarterly server market revenue. For all of 2005, Windows server revenues were $17.7 bln, which means that for the first time...
The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that Internet advertising revenues for 2005 are estimated to exceed $12.5 bln, a 30% increase over the previous revenue record of $9.6 bln in 2004. Q4 2005 revenues totaled a record $3.6 bln; making it the second consecutive quarter to surpass the $3...
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues grew $708 mln in Q4 2005, posting 17.9% growth from Q4 2004 to $4.7 bln, according to IDC. In Q4 2005 the total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 bln up 13.1% from Q4 2004. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reached...
Following 10 consecutive quarters posting positive annual growth, the EMEA server market ended 2005 with a revenue slowdown. Factory revenue generated by server sales declined by 4.4% in Q4 2005 over Q4 2004 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to IDC. Unit shipments in EMEA, however, continued to...
Revenue for global factory shipments of Unix servers slumped 5.9% to $5 bln. Windows servers rose 4.7% to $4.9 bln. Revenue from Linux servers was up 20.8% to $1.6 bln. IBM maintained the largest piece of the market with a 38.4% share in Q4 2005, IDC said. Hewlett-Packard grew faster...
Another study out today reports that spyware was on the rise in 2005. Security company Webroot, makers of SpySweeper, released the State of Spyware Report for 2005:Consumers, small businesses and enterprises across the globe all experienced a record number of infection rates for the worst types of spyware in...
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