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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Figures from analyst Gartner released earlier this year reveal only 16 per cent of current IT workloads are running on virtual machines. Adoption rates of virtualisation have yet to match the hype surrounding it, here... [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Increasing numbers of businesses are moving their systems onto cloud computing platforms: analyst house Gartner says worldwide revenues from cloud services will pass $56.3bn this year and are on track to grow to $150bn... [19 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
News Analyst group Gartner has drawn up a list of the applications it thinks will be most popular by 2012, ranking applications based on criteria including their estimated market penetration, revenue and consumer value. [18 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment Michael Chui is a senior fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, the economics research arm of analyst house McKinsey & Company. In an exclusive interview, silicon.com reporter Tim Ferguson spoke to Chui about the... [18 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment They certainly shouldn't just be throwing technology at the problem, says Rob Bamforth, principal analyst at Quocirca. Jeff Mann, research vice president at the analyst house, recently noted business... [17 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo According to analyst house Gartner, Android took a 3.5 per cent share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter of this year, while Windows Mobile's share declined to 7.9 per cent - a drop of 3.2 percentage... [16 Nov 2009]
The Creative Business Analyst Part 3 - Making Better Decisions
White Paper However, to the client (and business analyst) it means what the system will do. This final paper of the series it looks at decision making techniques - how to select the best idea from the many come up with - and how to... [13 Nov 2009]
Knowledge Is Power: Your Software Is Trying to Tell You Something
White Paper Armed with the right source code analysis tool, a security analyst no longer has to guess at the places in the software that impact privacy, operations, and data integrity. Buried in the millions of lines of source code... [12 Nov 2009]
The Business Benefits of Secure Remote Access
White Paper Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc.and opinion leaders from SonicWALL, Inc.as they help you make the right call on telecommuting. [09 Nov 2009]
Transform your Multi-Channel Customer Experience: Advantages of Customer Communications Management
White Paper Join Toby Bell, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc.and Lisa Sutrick, Director, CCM Product Management at Pitney Bowes Business Insight, as they look at how businesses are moving to an... [09 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News The five things you need to be thinking about now, as identified by analyst house Gartner, for one. October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to... [09 Nov 2009]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News Currently, eight out of 10 new PCs run Windows XP, nearly eight years after the operating system was first released, according to analyst Forrester. A multitude of Microsoft operating systems have been launched into the... [09 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK software industry is in fine fettle, although much more needs to be done to support the growth of small tech firms. Question: What do Britain's... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News According to research by analyst NPD Group, Windows 7's first week after release blew Vista's out of the water. That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no surprise - but just how much more love is Microsoft's latest... [06 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News Financial services is not making the steepest cuts, however: that honour goes to the agriculture mining and construction industry with a 9.2 per cent year-on-year fall, followed by the discrete manufacturing industry with an 8.5 per cent... [04 Nov 2009]
