gartner in comment and analysis
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment Azadar Shah, director at remote access firm iPass, says IT departments have become aware of what Gartner calls the 'black budget' of difficult-to-track expense claims for wi-fi connectivity. But now the problem for mobile workers is how to tap into... [12 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment Partha Iyengar is an India-based analyst with Gartner. He has been in the IT industry for more than 22 years and covers the areas of software development, global sourcing and globalisation issues within Gartner. [03 Jun 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment Speaking at Gartner's Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit, London-based media company Pearson - which has been using a telepresence system since 2001 - explained that, yes, videoconferencing has allowed its senior execs to reduce trips... [28 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up According to Gartner, end users' preferences will soon account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise. The bold statement was part of Gartner's 10 predictions for 2008. [18 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Last December, analyst firm Gartner estimated losses from US phishing attacks at $3.2bn, whereas the Internet Crime Complaint Center put losses from internet crime reported to US authorities at $240m last year. [15 Apr 2008]
How will your deal weather a downturn?
Comment A recent Gartner report showed cost is still the primary reason for outsourcing. What will happen to outsourcing if budgets are trimmed and belts tightened? A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go amiss, suggests lawyer... [10 Apr 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment Users simply don't have the expertise needed to classify all the sensitivity of the information they use," says Gartner Research vice president Jay Heiser. Gartner's Heiser warns: "The awareness of email or internet content monitoring has been... [19 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up Gartner will have no truck with this sort of thing - social networking, not huge, fearsome bears. Anyway, the final line from Gartner is: think carefully before committing to expensive "social networking white elephants". [14 Dec 2007]
How to baseline power consumption
Comment And there's another problem, says Rakesh Kumar, a vice president at Gartner. But their solutions don't play well with other vendors' systems, argues Gartner's Kumar. But how easy is it to come up with a baseline and why aren't suppliers ready with... [14 Dec 2007]
Where is outsourcing heading?
Comment Analyst firm Gartner describes this industrialisation as the standardisation of IT services through pre-designed and pre-configured systems that are highly automated, repeatable, scalable and reliable and meet the needs of many organisations. [05 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment Gartner forecasts the IT services market will be worth nearly $1tr by 2011 - more than seven per cent compound annual growth, up from around $675bn in 2006. And when it comes to the corporate IT professional's mastery of the devices and issues... [29 Nov 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure
Comment Another potential weakness in the Gartner proposition is the strong likelihood the 'Chinese Effect', which has brought down the cost of many manufactured goods, is about to go into reverse. Well, Gartner may be right. [22 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07
Round-Up However, amid the party poppers and wild cheering was Gartner analyst Andrew Frank offering a sobering warning that there are still risks inherent in the category of advertising in social media. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a fad... [26 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: CIO central
Comment I take my hat off to people such as Gartner and IDC whose CIO events attract hundreds, though of course they don't have the media channel to report on what happens, nor would they always want to. On Monday we held our fifth silicon.com CIO Forum... [17 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07
Round-Up Gartner also had the cheek to suggest a lack of perceived security around the Mac OS X-based device. However, Microsoft may have been alarmed this week to hear the latest ramblings from analyst house Gartner claiming that Apple might start making... [07 Sep 2007]
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