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RSS pcs gartnerTech spend to top $3.4tr
News Despite a shaky global economic market, worldwide IT spending will pass the $3.4tr mark this year, up eight per cent from last year, according to analyst Gartner. Gartner VP Jim Tully said in the report: "The US-led economic downturn shows no sign... [19 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Other techs likely to have a moderate impact but which are a little closer to achieving this (two to five years) include microblogging, tablet PCs, video telepresence and wikis, according to Gartner. Web 2.0 technologies may make you roll your eyes... [11 Aug 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Cloud computing
Cheat Sheet In fact analysts at Gartner are predicting that spending on online security applications will treble by 2013. Cloud computing means data and applications don't need to be held on servers within businesses or on home PCs where they will actually be... [01 Aug 2008]
UK PC sales: Best growth in Europe
News The UK PC market showed the biggest growth in Western Europe in the second quarter, according to analysts at Gartner, with shipments totalling 2.8 million units. Sales increased by 27.4 per cent in the 2008 second quarter, compared with the same... [01 Aug 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and instant messaging will grow from 20 per cent of messaging security revenue to 60 per cent over the next five years, according to analysts at Gartner. [17 Jul 2008]
Businesses ignoring social networking potential?
News Out of 4,000 PC and mobile phone users across 18 countries Gartner found that 38 per cent connected to social networks using PCs and less than one per cent using a mobile phone. Gartner found that social networking websites, instant messaging email... [10 Jul 2008]
Empowering Business Desktop on the Desktop
White Paper This paper provides the preliminary results of business value studies that Microsoft and Intel conducted using the Gartner Total Value of Opportunity (TVO) methodology. These studies demonstrate that client PCs operating Microsoft Windows XP... [03 Jul 2008]
Securing Wireless Networks with Sidewinder and SafeWord PremierAccess
White Paper Gartner also predicts that between 2001 and 2006 there will be a nine-fold increase in the number of wireless access points, and that by 2006 almost half of all professional PCs will have wireless support. [03 Jul 2008]
Mobile Services for Java-enabled Devices on 3G Wireless Networks
White Paper Gartner group estimates that by 2003, there will be 1 billion mobile phone users and by then, the mobile phone will have become the ihde-facto standard consumer e-commerce device. The usage of mobile devices has outpaced that of PCs, with mobile... [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year. [02 Jul 2008]
Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway, 2007
White Paper Interested in what analyst firm Gartner has to say about Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solutions? You'll learn about solutions that protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Read its "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway... [30 Jun 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week, Gartner analyst Brian Gammage said that, increasingly, portable-technology consumers are identifying with particular devices and brands, in much the same way as a car is seen as a fashion... [30 Jun 2008]
E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs
News Speaking at Gartner's Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit in London, John Middleditch, CTO of energy company E.ON UK, explained that going green doesn't have to be mind-bendingly complicated - at least not initially. [25 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight
News Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its own weight, as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute, according to analyst firm Gartner. Speaking at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas... [11 Apr 2008]
Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag
News Gartner analyst Michael Silver said the move - which applies only to standalone versions sold at retail stores - is puzzling. Silver added: "The whole notion of upgrading PCs has sort of fallen by the wayside. [29 Feb 2008]
