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Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has secured
the top spot for tape storage automation revenue for the first half of
calendar year 2009, as reported by top analyst firm IDC(1). Powered by
Sun's tape storage innovation and the most comprehensive hardware
portfolio in the world, Sun saw growth within its installed base as
well as with new customers who benefit from these efficient,
high-performance storage solutions.

.... Sun Microsystems

ANSI INCITS T11 Committee Completes Work on 16GFC.

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) says that the ANSI INCITS
T11 Committee completed the technical work on the FC-PI-5 for 16Gb/s
Fibre Channel ("16GFC"blogs.sun.com/images/smileys/wink.gif" class="smiley" alt=";)" title=";)" /> and voted in early October to send the document
out for letter ballot.   This milestone marks the technical stability
and completeness necessary for vendors to commit to silicon their
upcoming designs based upon the FC-PI-5 standard.

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source SNS Europe

The Gartner webinar conducted in April 2009 among
more than 130 attendees from the infrastructure and operations
(I&O) management found that although green IT issues remain at the
top of the agenda, respondents consider vendor and green procurement a
low priority activity for the next 18 months. Although 68 per cent of
respondents thought data centre energy management is their most
important green IT issue for the next 18 months, only 7 per cent
consider green procurement and pushing vendors to create more energy
efficient and greener solutions as their top priority.

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source Gartner

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“With cloud offerings coming in the form of
services, this means that the IT organisation will be replaced by
relationships to many cloud computing service providers, each for one
or a handful of services,” said Phil Dawson, research vice president at
Gartner.

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source Gartner

LONDON, September 18, 2009 — The
Western European Mobile Phone market recorded another quarter of
year-on-year declines in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09). According
to the IDC European Mobile Phone Tracker, handset vendors shipped 42
million units to Western Europe, down 6% from 2Q08. The second quarter
results are an improvement on the 14% decrease in 1Q09, but the crisis
will continue to impact the region.

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source IDC