Gartner forecast
RSS Gartner forecastOne in five of world's households now wired to the web
News Broadband penetration for South Korea is forecast to reach 93 per cent in 2013, while Hong Kong and Singapore will see 80 per cent and 78 per cent, respectively, of their households wired up to the web. [28 Sep 2009]
Mobile computing keeping PC shipments afloat
News The latest forecast issued from market research firm Gartner says PC shipments should reach 285 million units by the end of 2009. The forecast is markedly improved over June's estimates... [24 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet Better than other areas of IT: analyst house Forrester is predicting that global spend on outsourcing will fall slower this year than the 10 per cent decline forecast across IT spend as a whole. This thaw in spending... [11 Sep 2009]
Web to be number one choice for banking in 10 years
News There are almost 600 million online banking users in the world, according to a TowerGroup report, with numbers of users forecast to grow 20 per cent each year. Analyst house Gartner found built-in... [31 Jul 2009]
Outsourcing? Don't sign a long-term deal
News We predicted in the first quarter of 2009 that the global IT services market will decline 1.7 per cent in 2009, and we are reviewing this forecast with an even more cautionary orientation," he said in a statement. [17 Jun 2009]
Microsoft Live Search successor debuts: Will we soon Bing it?
News The company is calling Bing a "decision engine" rather than a search engine, and is including various pre-configured search categories such as shopping, travel, healthcare and local, together with a fully integrated version of its... [29 May 2009]
Virtualisation to boom in recession gloom
News In addition, the global penetration of virtualisation technology in businesses is forecast to hit 20 per cent by the end of the year - up from 12 per cent in 2008. The EMEA market for virtualisation software is likely to... [14 Apr 2009]
The Credit Crunch Time for IT Service Management to Prove Its Worth
White Paper In late September '08, Gartner, Inc.was reported as saying that it did not expect a recession in technology spending, but at Symposium/ITxpo forecast that overall spending will grow 3 percent year over... [23 Mar 2009]
Virtualisation hotting up in 2009
News In addition the global penetration of virtualisation technology in businesses is forecast to hit 20 per cent by the end of the year - up from 12 per cent in 2008. Analyst house Gartner predicts global... [13 Feb 2009]
Security heading for the cloud
News Security software will jump off PCs and into 'the cloud', with spending on online security services forecast to triple by 2013. Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and instant messaging will grow from 20 per... [17 Jul 2008]
GPS-chip boom as mobiles enter the frame
News But the cost of chips is already dropping as manufacturers look towards mobile location-based services - a market set to be worth $8bn by 2011, according to a recent Gartner forecast. The popularity of... [20 Mar 2008]
Recession-proof your IT, CIOs warned
News The warning also advises organisations in countries outside the US with economic growth forecast to be less than two per cent in 2008 to act now. IT bosses are being urged by analyst Gartner to take... [26 Feb 2008]
2008 - worse than predicted for IT spending
News Forrester Research's figures fall broadly in line with those of fellow analyst house Gartner, whose most recent global IT spending growth forecast is also around six per cent. Analyst house Forrester... [12 Feb 2008]
Location-based services set to boom
News And revenue will jump from $485.1m in 2007 to $1,307.3m in 2008 topping $8bn in 2011, according to its Location-Based Services Subscriber and Revenue Forecast, 2006-2011 report. Worldwide subscribers are set to leap by... [11 Feb 2008]
Slowdown on the cards for business intelligence
News The BI market is forecast to have grown by 12.5 per cent during 2007 by analyst house Gartner. This is slightly lower than 2006 and Gartner predicts a further decline to single digit... [14 Jan 2008]
