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State of the SMB cloud market

February 16, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Clouds

Yesterday, Parallels released its SMB Cloud Insights report. And according to the company’s forecast, the global SMB cloud services market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26 percent and is on track to reach $68 billion by 2014. So, small- and medium-sized businesses are taking to the cloud in increasing numbers, which makes […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Stats & Figures Tagged With: cloud, Cloud Computing, forecast, small business, SMB, statistics, stats

Infographic: Spotlight on conflict minerals

January 26, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Conflict Minerals

Venkel Ltd., a producer of electronics components headquartered in Austin, Texas, has released an infographic that explores the sources of four conflict minerals, coined 3TG (tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold). This comes as the SEC finds itself embroiled in a clash over conflict mineral provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act. Conflict minerals describe earth metals that come […]

Filed Under: Stats & Figures Tagged With: conflict minerals, Congo, Dodd-Frank, Gadgets, legislation, statistics

Stat of the day: Tablet and e-reader ownership reaches 19 percent

January 23, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

iPads

It looks like this past holiday season, Apple and Amazon moved a lot of iPads and Kindles, respectively. At least that’s what some new data from Pew Internet suggests. Ownership of tablets and e-readers both hit 19 percent in the U.S. by the end of 2011, according to the results of a survey of 2,000 […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: e-readers, market, research, statistics, tablets

Poll: Tablets will replace laptops say 46% of Americans

January 10, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

iPads

Are the PC’s days numbered? Personally, they’ll have to pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. But not for 46 percent of Americans that believe tablets will replace laptops according to a recent study by Poll Position. The survey, conducted earlier this month, reveals that for a huge chunk of the population, tablets may fulfill their mobile […]

Filed Under: Stats & Figures Tagged With: iPad, poll, statistics, stats, survey, tablets

Stat of the day: Feds dispose 10K computers… a week

September 27, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

How much e-waste does the U.S. government generate? According to General Services Administration (GSA) head Martha Johnson, “By some estimates, the federal government goes through 10,000 computers a week.” And that’s not the only staggering statistic in this Washington Post/Bloomberg article that examines the steps the GSA and EPA are taking to combat e-waste and […]

Filed Under: E-Waste & Recycling, Stats & Figures Tagged With: e-waste, EPA, government, recycling, regulation, statistics, stats

REN21: Renewables make up nearly 20 percent of global energy production

July 28, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

Where in the world?! Before we get to all those juicy statistics, REN21 came through with a little tech for infoporn addicts by debuting an online Renewables Interactive Map to coincide with the release of the group’s Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. As with all good interactive maps, it’s infinitely clickable and searchable. As a […]

Filed Under: Stats & Figures Tagged With: renewable energy, renewables, report, statistics, stats

Stat of the day: 2.7M ‘clean economy’ jobs

July 13, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Hard Hat

Some interesting news from the green jobs front today. According to a new study, 2.7 million Americans are gainfully employed in “clean economy” jobs, surprisingly beating out some long-established sectors. From WSJ: The study, by researchers at the Brookings Institution and Battelle, concluded that the U.S. clean economy employs more workers than the fossil-fuel and […]

Filed Under: Stats & Figures Tagged With: economy, green jobs, statistics

Infographic of the day: Cloud’s formation in 2011

June 15, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

What does the cloud look like in 2011? What’s it made of? Thanks to a survey conducted by BitNami, Cloud.com and cloud management firm Zenoss, we have a fascinating new snapshot of the cloud market. With the help of 500 IT professionals, the companies were able to get a bead on some of the factors […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Stats & Figures Tagged With: BitNami, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud.com, infographic, Microsoft, statistics, stats, VMware, Zenoss

Uptime Institute reveals IT’s energy cost blindness… Can accountants cure it?

May 16, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Last week’s Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 event not only brought together data center experts, it also delivered the goods for stat monkeys in the form of the group’s first-ever industry survey results. After a bout of “excitement” from the techies in attendance (riiiiight), the group let loose with the findings, which include… 74% of respondents […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Stats & Figures Tagged With: Data Center, energy efficiency, finance, statistics, stats, Uptime Institute

Infographic of the Day: Peer-1’s top sites online

April 26, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

I hope your mouse wheel’s up to the task because this one’s a scroll-a-thon. (That up there is a mere sampling.) Peer-1 Hosting, which knows a thing or two about green data centers, has cooked up a spiffy, super-sized infographic of today’s most visited online destinations and the power it takes to keep their IT […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Featured, Stats & Figures Tagged With: Data Center, data centers, energy efficiency, green data center, statistics, stats

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