January 14, 2010
Tech downturn is history, says Forrester
The Register
Timothy Prickett Morgan writes that Forrester Research has recently announced the “unofficial end to the IT recession.”
“Forrester Research (has) called an unofficial end to the IT recession, saying that tech spending will hit $568 billion in the United States in 2010, up 6.6 per cent compared to last year, and will rise above $1.6 trillion globally, up a smart 8.1 per cent. While this is good news, one must remember that IT spending fell by 8.2 per cent last year in the States and by 8.9 per cent globally. (Some of that global decline was due to the strengthening of the US dollar.) We are still not back to where we were in 2008. But, it’s a new year and everybody wants good news. ‘The technology downturn of 2008 and 2009 is unofficially over,’ said Andrew Bartels, Forrester’s vice-president and principal analyst.”
NVIDIA introduces GeForce 300M mobile graphics series
ZD Net
Rachel King writes about Nvidia’s new GeForce 300M mobile graphics processors for use in laptops.
“The series is broken down into three categories, starting on the high-end: high performance: GeForce GTS 360M and GTS 350M, performance: GeForce GT 335M, GT 330M, and GT 325M (and) mainstream: GeForce GT 310M and GT 305M.All ready and optimized to handle Windows 7, the 300M series supports notebooks displaying GPU-accelerated video and image-processing applications that were built with Microsoft DirectCompute API. With the built-in NVIDIA CUDA technology, those applications are supposed to run 20x faster with these new GPUs.”
Get Ready for the Rebound
MSPmentor
Bob Godgart offers some tips on how partners can prepare for the economic rebound.
“All the tough decisions and hard work have a pay-off – especially for VARs and MSPs who continued to invest in their businesses and proactively serviced their customers during these tough times. Those who have made it are going to enter the new decade leaner, meaner, stronger and smarter than ever before. Here are my top four strategic tips for the new year: take stock and invest in what you do best, join forces around the globe, find ways to get more ‘sticky’ with your clients (and) use the cloud to your advantage.”