Rocky Road Ahead For IPv6
News Besides Microsoft's call for support, research house The Yankee Group predicts that by the fourth quarter of 2002, Japan will become the first country to deploy IPv6 in production environments. For one thing, Ralph Droms, a Cisco Systems Technical...
[April 24, 2002, 11:03]
Microsoft Partnership Targets Smaller Firms
News According to The Yankee Group, only about 20 percent to 25 percent of small and midsized companies use CRM software. Today, there are roughly 5.6 million small and midsized businesses in the US, according to Yankee, making up about 97 percent of...
[August 24, 2004, 12:16]
Customer Churn Indicates VoIP Static
News Cisco is predicting 35 percent growth in earnings per share for the next fiscal year," said Zeus Kerravala, The Yankee Group's vice president of enterprise infrastructure. On one hand, Cisco must contend with VoIP upstarts such as Shoreline...
[September 17, 2003, 17:20]
Wireless Networking Wars Hit Speed Bump
News Whatever the use, people will find a way to fill up the extra wireless bandwidth, said Yankee Group analyst Karuna Uppal. Intel, Cisco Systems, Proxim and others are developing new high-speed wireless networking kits that are five times faster than...
[February 27, 2001, 9:22]
Dell Adopts Storage Competitors' Recipe
News If you have a storage problem, go to a storage company," said Yankee Group analyst William Hurley. Among the show's most anticipated events will be the arrival of networking giant Cisco into the market for connecting storage devices to servers and...
[April 9, 2001, 9:30]
Building Boom Leads To Datacentre Crash
News What you're seeing is an about-face in supply and demand," said Carrie Lewis, an analyst with The Yankee Group, a market research firm. It's not all gloom and doom," The Yankee Group's Lewis said. Networking companies are finding they can't keep up...
[May 10, 2001, 11:04]
Salesforce Adds Customisation Option
News According to Sheryl Kingstone, an analyst at Boston-based research firm The Yankee Group, Salesforce is adding sophistication to its products with the hopes of attracting larger clients. Cisco Systems doesn't want the high-tech version," Benioff said.
[November 3, 2004, 8:43]
Windows PatchGuard 'hindering Security'
News PatchGuard will make it harder for third parties, particularly host intrusion-prevention software, to function in Vista," said Yankee Group analyst Andrew Jaquith. However, Yankee Group analyst Jaquith believes that step is getting closer...
[August 11, 2006, 8:50]
Microsoft's Nortel Alliance Challenges Cisco
News The fight is definitely on," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee Group Research. I think this could delay adoption in the VoIP market for companies that are just now considering switching their phones to IP," said Yankee's Kerravala.
[July 19, 2006, 9:05]
Microsoft Readies VoIP Software Beta
News Microsoft, because it is Microsoft, will have a big impact on the market," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee Group. As the number-one supplier of desktop software to most businesses around the world, Microsoft is likely to be a...
[March 7, 2007, 7:27]
MPEG-4 On Road To Rights Management
News A technical standard for digital rights management "had been the component missing from any MPEG-4 content or individual players", said Ryan Jones, an analyst for The Yankee Group. The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) -- a global group of...
[January 29, 2003, 7:46]
Networking Standard Gets Windows Storage Boost
News Jamie Gruener, an analyst with market research firm The Yankee Group, said iSCSI adoption has been slower than expected. Microsoft on Wednesday plans to announce the news and to name the hardware vendors, which include Intel, Cisco Systems and...
[November 19, 2003, 13:35]
