Dell announces Big Data storage data retention product

According to Dell, the ability to compress data by a ratio of 40:1 while for all that maintaining responsive connectivity with Big Data analytics will help businesses save on their storage and reduce its data centre footprint.

The Texas-based company has been trying to focus on business-to-business activities of late, making a number of acquisitions designed to improve its technological expertise in areas like virtualisation, cloud computing and Big Data.

Mobility continues to grow in importance for users; in a word, it has as well become a more critical component of Gartner's evaluation criteria for the sales force automation Magic Quadrant. Smartphones and iPads are becoming preferred devices for the mobile salesperson. Software as a service as well continues to play a more dominate role in the SFA Magic Quadrant, with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Zoho added for 2011. Based on Gartner inquires while the past 12 months, new SFA evaluations are up by 30%. The primary objective for most sales organisations remains possibility management, nevertheless we have as well seen greater emphasis placed on sales effectiveness and sales-performance-related applications.

Most businesses fail to differentiate themselves from the competition because they never take the time to understand what they uniquely value or possess.

According to analyst IT IDC, 80% of x86 servers deployed today have reached the end of their lifecycle and are effectively on borrowed time. With evermore unpredictable economic cycles it's easy to pull in the purse strings and opt to delay innovation refresh or in accordance with value the impact of then and there generation innovation.

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