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Tablet and Chromebooks have 'moved past peak demand', claimes IDC

IDC figures show Chromebook shipments fell more than 60 per cent in Q4 as vendors prioritised Windows machines due to their higher price tags alongside component shortages

07 February 2022 • 2 min read

Tablet and Chromebooks have 'moved past peak demand', claimes IDC

Global tablet shipments reached 46 million units during the fourth quarter of 2021, posting a decline for the second time since the pandemic began in 2020. Shipments dropped 11.9 per cent year ...

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Dell changes incentive structure and rebates in new partner programme for 2022

Cisco issues updates after vulnerabilities discovered in small business routers

IBM confirms $6.4bn HashiCorp purchase by year's end

‘HashiCorp has a proven track record of enabling clients to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructure and application sprawl,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna

25 April 2024 • 3 min read

ThreatLocker CEO: $115m in new funding will help drive R&D, support, marketing with plans to double workforce

ThreatLocker co-founder and CEO Danny Jenkins said the vendor's priority is to continue improving its zero trust endpoint platform

25 April 2024 • 4 min read

Broadcom tells partner negotiating for charity 'VMware is not for everybody'

“The statement that came back to me from Broadcom was, ‘We appreciate that with these changes VMware is not for everybody,’” says Tom Smyth, head of technical solutions as Misco. “Everyone else can use it. Broadcom is not going to gear its decisions towards them anymore. … I can appreciate that. I can respect their decisions. It’s not something I would do personally.”

24 April 2024 • 5 min read