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Forrester Offers Tips For Outsourcing Success
News There are three basic steps that companies should always take — but sometimes don't — when it comes to choosing how to make an IT outsourcing deal, says analyst house Forrester Research. Richard Peynot, senior analyst at Forrester, said discussions...
[October 3, 2007, 8:21]
Microsoft's 2005 'to Do' List: What The Analysts Say
News In its customary end-of-year research note issued late on Wednesday, the analyst house wrote: "Left unattended, each [challenge] could ultimately interrupt Microsoft's 25+ year run of growth and profits and leave the door open for younger, smaller...
[December 24, 2004, 10:10]
Analysts Downgrade 2008 Global IT Outlook
News Analyst house Forrester Research has downgraded its 2008 forecast for global IT purchasing, projecting that US spending on IT goods and services will grow 2.8 percent year-on-year, down from its previous forecast of 4.6 percent; while global...
[February 12, 2008, 11:53]
Security Downtime To Triple
News According to analyst house Gartner, downtime linked to security problems will rise from five per cent to 15 per cent of all downtime, due to the influx of mobile working technologies and a growing dependence among businesses on the internet and...
[September 14, 2004, 7:55]
Location-based Services Expected To Rocket
News Worldwide subscribers are set to leap by nearly 168 percent says analyst house Gartner, which claims the market is at a "turning point" and mainstream adoption could be just two to five years away. This level of accuracy opens the doors to a...
[February 12, 2008, 10:29]
Mobile Market Starting To Live Up To The Hype
News The analyst house says devices such as standalone PDAs and smartphones are increasingly central to IT strategy. Eighteen months ago ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com's CIO Jury panel disagreed with another major analyst house, placing mobile and...
[April 19, 2005, 15:40]
Keep Your Data Options Open, Warns Gartner
News International companies keeping data abroad might want to reconsider their options after a number of US telcos were accused of leaking data to a US government agency earlier this month, analyst house Gartner has warned.
[May 24, 2006, 12:40]
Gartner Highlights Outsourcing Problems
News A survey of 200 European executives by analyst house Gartner found that 55 percent of those businesses with outsourcing contracts have renegotiated the deal. But the analyst house said that some renegotiation, in the form of a mid-term review, is a...
[April 27, 2005, 17:05]
Fixed-mobile Convergence 'around The Corner'
News The analyst house points out opportunities arising from the integration of wireless LAN technology with broadband and cellular networks. Earlier this month Yankee Group, another analyst house, predicted FMC will take root in enterprises - once they...
[December 21, 2005, 15:55]
Smartphone Market Feels 'iPhone Effect'
News Among the features likely to proliferate, in terms of enhancing user-interface experiences, include touchscreens, touchpads and accelerometers allowing tilt and shock-sensing, as well as haptics for providing tactile feedback, according to analyst...
[March 26, 2008, 7:46]
Virtualisation Set To Save Businesses Millions
News Many companies initially adopt virtualisation to save money through server consolidation, and then start to notice other benefits, so that virtualisation becomes part of the overall IT plan, according to the analyst house.
[September 26, 2007, 8:24]
Businesses Warned Against Skipping Vista
News For companies struggling to build a business case for upgrading to Vista, the analyst house suggested bringing in the new operating system on new hardware only — which means it could take a three- or four-year hardware replacement cycle to...
[December 7, 2007, 12:17]
G.Lite Approval Paves Way For US Broadband
News That projection includes the time it would take to pre-wire every house. Currently, DSL installation requires the telephone company to send a worker to your house to install a splitter and test your telephone line.
[June 24, 1999, 9:32]
WebTV Wants To Control Your Home
News I think consumers are interested in sharing data within the house or resources like a printer, but I really wonder if they would want to control everything in their house from one place," said Josh Bernoff, a principal analyst at Forrester Research.
[March 9, 1999, 7:08]
A Clear Way To Fix Security Woes
Leader We propose a clearing house for security claims, a certifying body composed of vendors, independent industry and government experts, and with strong connections at CIO level. Reports of problems can be made in confidence to the clearing house...
[July 28, 2005, 13:05]
Tech Stocks Dive As US Bailout Fails
News Shares of technology companies took a beating on Monday as the US House of Representatives failed to pass a bailout plan for the financial sector. The House voted down the $700bn (£390bn) plan, 228 to 205, with two-thirds of Republicans and a...
[September 30, 2008, 10:40]
Tech Giants Eye Consumer Support Market
News Geek Squad now has almost 12,000 "agents", about 2,000 of whom make house calls, while the rest work in Best Buy's stores, or "precincts". But Geek Squad is known for its white-shirted special agents that show up at a customer's house in the...
[March 1, 2006, 14:55]
VoIP 'has Reached The Mainstream'
News The benefits of renting VoIP services include reduced upfront equipment investment and the ability to lower the cost of in-house management, according to Hall. Instead most will go with a 'multisourced' approach where they keep some network...
[June 1, 2005, 16:15]
Dell Delays Results Leaving Spotlight To HP
News But it might have been just what Dell needed to get its financial house in order, according to analysts who think Dell's main goal for the quarter was to stabilise its profits. A shift in PC shipments to notebooks has meant that, because of an in...
[November 16, 2006, 7:41]
Utility Computing Is "the Next Big Thing"
News Promise to address pressing business needs, including making the business more agile and able to treat IT as an increasingly variable cost.Can be supplied in small, incremental bites that deliver fast, demonstrable, significant return on...
[March 5, 2003, 11:38]
