Gartner has positioned Riverbed Technologies well ahead of competition in its latest Magic Quadrant for wide area network optimisation vendors.

Semi-conductors are in high demand from the leading electronic equipment manufacturers as the enormous worldwide demand for smartphones continues unabated, with Apple leading the way with demand for the chips ahead of Samsung and HTC.

A new survey carried out by a major analyst firm suggests CIOs in the Asia Pacific region will be relatively flush with cash compared with their counterparts in the US and Europe.

Worldwide shipments of PCs dropped towards the end of last year as consumer demand slowed. Ultrabooks, introduced to the market in the holiday season, didn’t attract consumers, and the overall decline in PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 1.4 percent.

Deakin University is staring down the barrel of “pretty drastic cuts” to its IT budget in 2012 as the institution reacts to an increasingly uncertain economic landscape.

OpenText has scored the double, with both Gartner and Forrester Research recognising the company and its enterprise content management solutions as a Leader in the ECM market.

Gartner Group has sharpened its research focus on cloud computing by splitting its previous Magic Quadrant for 'Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting' into one for 'Managed Hosting and Cloud IaaS' and Magic Quadrant for 'Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.'

Australian managed services specialist, Virtual Ark, is using recently raised funding of $1.6 million to broaden the global market reach of its cloud application management platform, which is now available to companies in Australia as well as the US.

Whereas most vendors have approached Next Generation Firewall technologies from the perspective of an existing firewall product, Sourcefire has turned the concept inside out and today launches an IPS-based device.

eMite releases Version 4 of its Service Intelligence Platform further enabling BI for IT with 2 key advances. Those advances are the Onboard->Offboard->Dashboard architecture and the integration of Service Desk Analytics into Service Intelligence.