Server market growing: Gartner
Server shipments grew by 3.6 per cent year-on-year in the quarter ended September, according to IT research and advisory services firm Gartner, Inc. In the same period, revenue decreased by 2.8 per cent.
North America grew the most in shipments with a 7.4 per cent increase.
A release from Gartner stated that four of the top five global vendors, barring Dell Inc., had revenue decreases for the third quarter of 2012.
“Server revenue was weak due to ongoing economic weakness and market segment differences,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice-president at Gartner, in a release.
Google holds first EdTech conference
The Google EdTech team organised its first education conference in the country in Mumbai. The conference, which aimed to empower educators by using Google Apps effectively in education, was held in collaboration with InOpen Technologies, a tech start-up incubated at IIT-Bombay.
The summit aimed at promoting learning and achievement in students, teachers and school management, a press release from Google stated. Delivering the keynote address, Suan Yeo, who heads Google Enterprise Education, emphasised on how technology is the empowering tool that helps realise the high value and importance of education. “How we learned is not how our students learn,” he said, and thus, it is important to “teach with technology, not teach technology.”
This is in sync with InOpen’s ‘Computer Masti’ ideology based on the TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, Content Knowledge) model, which operates on the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) philosophy.
Expo on IT solutions for MSME
The Karnataka chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising the IT Buyer-Seller Meet 2012, an exhibition featuring cost-effective IT solutions and products for Small and Medium Enterprises, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises on December 11 at the Lalit Ashok Hotel. The CII expo aims to showcase the latest developments in the IT sector, particularly “value-for-money solutions” that can help increase IT adoption in this business segment.
Over 100 IT products, ranging from software solutions for human resources, inventory management and simulation or analytics to more complex networking and hardware systems, will be on display.
According to the press release, top executives and department heads of IT companies are slated to attend at the event.
For more, contact augustine@cii.in
