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Data center marketing speak can come in many flavors

Posted December 12, 2011 - 3:06 pm

Selling data centers
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'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO

Posted October 22, 2011 - 7:39 am

"You have to be a masochist to want to be an IT person,'' says Robert Carter. And he would know. Carter is the soft-spoken, hard-driving CIO who has been fighting for the past 11 years to transform IT operations at FedEx, where "the planes don't fly and trucks don't roll without IT services.''
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Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill

Posted October 19, 2011 - 11:25 am

With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice.
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Machines make better decisions than humans, says Gartner

Posted October 18, 2011 - 2:49 pm

There may be a day when automation takes over human decision making in business.
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Gartner: The future of IT? Get ready to blow stuff up

Posted October 17, 2011 - 1:24 pm

If IT is to successfully move into the future it's going to need to blow up its current way of thinking and the way it supports mature technologies.
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Cloud storage arrays to generate $1.45B in 2015

Posted October 4, 2011 - 12:38 pm

An analysis of the cloud storage market, both public and private, released by Gartner today showed that the market is on pace to total $417.3 million in 2011, a 56% increase from 2010 and it will reach $1.4B by 2015.
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Apple iPad to reign as top tablet through 2014

Posted September 23, 2011 - 11:51 am

Analyst firm Gartner just downgraded their predictions for Android tablet success for the next three years. Result? Apple's iPad will be king of the tablet world through at least 2014. But can we trust that prediction?
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Microsoft, Citrix join VMware at top of Gartner's Magic Quadrant

Posted July 5, 2011 - 3:48 pm

It's getting harder for VMware to argue that it's the only game in town for big-time virtualization projects.
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Gartner: IT should be planning, moving to private clouds

Posted June 15, 2011 - 10:41 am

If speedy IT services are important, businesses should be shifting from traditional computing into virtualization in order to build a private cloud that, whether operated by their IT department or with help from a private cloud provider, will give them that edge.
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Gartner joins IDC in revising down PC sales forecast

Posted June 8, 2011 - 12:41 pm

Like IDC on Monday, fellow research firm Gartner is paring back its forecast for 2011 PC shipments.
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Dell to report fiscal Q1 earnings on Tuesday

Posted May 16, 2011 - 2:54 pm

Computer maker Dell is set to deliver fiscal 2012 first-quarter earnings after the bell Tuesday, giving analysts and industry observers some sense of where PC shipments.
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BI must become part of broad IT strategy

Posted May 6, 2011 - 5:07 am

To be of strategic use, BI systems need to be more forward-looking, said IT managers and analysts at the Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles this week.
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Windows 7 share decline could mean security headaches

Posted April 27, 2011 - 7:00 am

A PCWorld story suggests that Windows 7 global PC market share is shrinking. If correct, what exactly is shipping on the PCs without Windows 7? Could it be a Linux win? Or a security loss?
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Fewer PCs shipped in Q1 (take one guess why)

Posted April 13, 2011 - 9:45 pm

In what should become a quarterly ritual in the foreseeable future, top tech research firms show a decline in personal computer shipments for the first quarter.
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Gartner: CRM at forefront of application investment

Posted February 25, 2011 - 10:54 am

Spending on customer relationship management software is expected to see the largest increase of all the application software markets this year, according to a survey from analyst house Gartner.
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Gartner: Companies need to plan social media policy

Posted February 11, 2011 - 11:13 am

Companies need to ask seven critical questions before developing a social media policy, according to analyst house Gartner.
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BI, value creation key for CIOs: Gartner

Posted January 31, 2011 - 11:18 am

Increasing enterprise growth, reducing costs and attracting new customers are the three areas CIOs are focusing their attention on in 2011, according to the latest research from Gartner.
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Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision

Posted January 21, 2011 - 7:58 am

Businesses are better off deploying multivendor networks, no matter what Cisco and other large network vendors may tell you, according to a recent report from Gartner.
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Gartner: BI will be consumed heavily on mobiles in two years

Posted January 10, 2011 - 11:08 am

Business intelligence and analytics leaders need to embrace four trends, including the growing popularity of business applications on mobile devices, according to analysts at Gartner.
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Intel wants piece of tablet, netbook action

Posted December 8, 2010 - 11:51 am

Rather than accept the prognosis that the emergence of low-cost, underpowered computing devices spelled doom for its business, chip maker Intel is moving to capitalize on the emergence of netbooks and tablets.
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Gartner downgrades from previous forecasts for PC shipments

Posted November 29, 2010 - 1:53 pm

Global PC shipments should hit 352.4 million units this year, a 14.3 percent increase over 2009, according to a new preliminary forecast released Monday by Gartner, Inc.
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Unified communications can't keep up with Twitter: Gartner

Posted November 23, 2010 - 11:43 am

Unified communications lacks a clear business case and can not compete with consumer-driven technology, Gartner has warned.
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RIM continues to lose smartphone market share in Q3

Posted November 10, 2010 - 1:44 pm

Google's Android vaulted into second place among mobile operating systems in the third quarter, while Symbian -- though still No. 1 -- and Research in Motion lost ground.
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Burning question: How can security risks be mitigated in virtualized systems?

Posted November 2, 2010 - 8:48 pm

Planning for virtualization projects should always include the information security team, but according to Gartner survey data about 40% of virtualization projects were undertaken without the security team's involvement in initial architecture and planning stages.
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Limitations of software-as-a-service highlighted at Gartner ITxpo

Posted October 20, 2010 - 10:39 am

ORLANDO -- Software-as-a-service (SaaS) may offer the advantage of application-based computing you can pay for as needed, but there are pitfalls, too, that are becoming increasingly evident, according to Gartner analyst Robert DeSisto.
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