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An Opinion is Offered on Expected Growth Areas

In 2009, multitudes of IT departments had to reassess their datacenters, and many are making enlightening discoveries, like air cooling can be sufficient in keeping systems in optimum condition or 15-30 percent of what is consuming power in their datacenters can be turned off with no harmful effect. So what does this type of complete and thorough datacenter inventorying translate to for the IT industry in 2010? ServerWatch’s Andy Patrizio offers his opinion.

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July 2009

Each month Sun Marketing publishes the “Good News” about Sun. This month there are 12 items and 3 groups:

• Leading Market Conversations: ComputerWorld’s “100 Best Places to Work in IT 2009,” Open Work Program, Sun Constellation System, Sun Blade Systems, Julich, Sun Blade X6275, NetBeans 6.7
• Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: VirtualBox, OpenSolaris, JavaFX
• Customers Choose Sun: MySQL, Sun Servers, Storage, Software, Virtualization, Solaris Containers, Workstations, Management Tools

A two-page PDF of the “Good News” from Sun is available in English and several other languages.

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IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker reported worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues rose 9.8 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07) for a total of $5.3 billion.

Total disk storage systems market also increased by 7.6 percent when compared to the fourth quarter of 2006, for a total of $7.5 billion. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 1,645 petabytes, growing 56.3 percent.

Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Fourth Quarter of 2007 (Revenues are in Millions)

• 1. IBM: $1,720 in revenue 4Q07 for 22.9% market share; $1,670 in revenue 4Q06 for 23.9% market share; totaling 3.0% in revenue growth

• 2. HP: $1,362 in revenue 4Q07 for 18.1% market share; $1,349 in revenue 4Q06 for 19.3% market share; totaling 1.0% in revenue growth

• 3. EMC: $1,200 in revenue 4Q07 for 16.0% market share; $1,059 in revenue 4Q06 for 15.2% market share; totaling 13.3% in revenue growth

• 4. Dell: $671 in revenue 4Q07 for 8.9% market share; $595 in revenue 4Q06 for 8.5% market share; totaling 12.7% in revenue growth

• 5. Sun: $428 in revenue 4Q07 for 5.7% market share; $369 in revenue 4Q06 for 5.3% market share; totaling 16.1% in revenue growth

• 5. Hitachi: $410 in revenue 4Q07 for 5.4% market share; $356 in revenue 4Q06 for 5.1% market share; totaling 14.9% in revenue growth