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Red Hat Drives Significant Growth in Europe as Open Source Software Gains Traction
Philip Carter, Andreas Olah, Carla Arend
May 2013 - Doc # lcDE24113213 IDC Link

Recently, Red Hat announced its fourth quarter financial results as well as its full year fiscal results for 2013. Total revenue for the Q4 was $348 million, an increase of 17% in U.S. dollars from the year ago quarter, or 18% measured in c ...

HP Software Group in Europe — Making Software Matter
Carla Arend
Apr 2013 - Doc # lcDK24086313 IDC Link

On March 5–6, 2013, HP held its global analyst event in Boston. At the event, Meg Whitman reinforced her five-year transformation plan, with HP now in year two — focusing on "fix and rebuild" — after year one, in 2011, focused on "diagnosis ...

CommVault Launches Simpana 10 — The European Perspective
Carla Arend
Mar 2013 - Doc # lcDK23998513 IDC Link

On February 27, CommVault kick started its European launch tour of Simpana 10 in London, with the next stops on the tour being Munich and Amsterdam. U.K. news anchor Sir Trevor McDonald moderated the event, which took place at Club 10, and ...

EMC launches NetWorker 8 — Preparing for the Next Decade of Backup
Carla Arend
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcDK23598912 IDC Link

On July 10, EMC launched NetWorker 8, its next generation backup software architecture, at Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge, U.K. EMC held the launch event in Europe as the majority of NetWorker customers and partners are based here. The la ...

Dell Acquires Quest Software — Impact on the European Market
Carla Arend, Alys Woodward, Kevin Bailey, Sally Hudson, Spencer Izard
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcDK23593312 IDC Link

On July 3, Dell announced that it is acquiring Quest Software to expand its end-to-end solution capabilities built on Dell intellectual property (IP). Quest will be added to Dell's software division, together with other recent software acqu ...