Forrester Research has some advice for businesses mulling whether to support Apple iPad, RIM’s PlayBook, HP’s Slate, Cisco’s Cius or Android tablets such as the Motorola Xoom. – Following the tablet frenzy of the 2011 Consumer
Electronics Show, it’s fair to ponder the question of how tablets from RIM, Hewlett-Packard,
Cisco, as well as the slew of Android tablets, will fair among corporate employees.
For example, while the RIM PlayBook may boast enhanced
security, the C…
Global IT spending is due to increase in 2011, even as hardware sales decline because of a strong growth in software and mobile devices, according to Forrester Research and Gartner. – Global IT spending is expected to grow overall in 2011,
according to two different analyst reports. However, both Gartner and Forrester
analysts said spending in the PC segment will be impacted the increasing
popularity of tablets and smartphones.
Global IT spending will grow 7.1 percent to $1.7…
Apple’s iPad will lead Android in a 2011 tablet market that should hit 24.1 million, according to Forrester Research. The note comes as the Consumer Electronics Shows gets underway. – While many expect the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show to be a big coming-out
party for the Android tablet, Forrester Research has revised its previous
conservative estimates and now expects the 2011 tablet market to be 2.5 times
what it was in 2010.
Forrester analyst Sara Rotman Epps said
Jan. 4…
Industry analyst firms, including Forrester Research, have ranked IBM No. 1 in services. The company has a varied services portfolio led by IBM GBS (Global Business Services) and IBM GTS (Global Technology Services). IBM GBS operates in more than 160 countries and provides clients with deep business process and industry expertise across 17 industries. IBM officials say their GBS is the worlds largest service provider in business consulting, system integration and application services. GBS helps clients implement solutions that deliver business outcomes with far-reaching impact and sustainable results, whether thats designing and implementing new service after sales business models, revolutionizing the business model for automotive insurance with innovative technology or becoming one of the leading logistics providers for supply chains. IBM works with its clients to identify the level of change that suits their needs and will result in actionable change and sustainable outcomes. Meanwhile, IBM officials said IBM GTS is the world’s largest IT services and consulting provider, with about 190,000 professionals in 160 countries. For instance, IBM’s GTS business in Greater China (Hong Kong, Taiwan, China) addresses the entire spectrum of its clients’ business needs, from business transformation and industry expertise of IBM’s consulting business to hosting, infrastructure, technology design and training services. GTS provides services such as business continuity and resilience, user services, integrated communication services, IT strategy and architecture services, maintenance and technical support services, middleware services, outsourcing services, security and privacy services, server services, site and facilities services, and storage and data services. – …
Google eBooks, Google TV and perhaps even Google Music could form the bedrock of a great, ad-supported media cloud, analysts from Gartner and Forrester Research believe. – Analysts believe Google’s eBooks service could shake up the market Amazon
and others have cultivated if Google chooses to create an ad-supported media
cloud storefront where consumers procure TV, books and eventually music.
Google eBooks and the corresponding eBookstore launched Dec. 6 to let con…
Microsoft’s Windows 7 will see greater uptake by businesses in coming years, according to a new research report from Forrester. – Microsoft can expect businesses to adopt Windows 7 in
greater numbers over the next few years, as those firms undergo an inevitable
tech refresh. Thats the conclusion drawn from a Nov. 2 report by research firm
Forrester Research, which also suggests those firms will use the tech-refresh
opportu…
Forrester predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5 billion in five years. Among the main areas of focus will be identity and access management, data security, and cloud governance. – A new report from Forrester Research projects that the cloud security market
will grow to $1.5 billion by 2015 a shift that will disrupt what Forrester
calls the quot;security solution ecosystem. quot;
In a report entitled quot;Security and the Cloud, quot; Forrester analyst
Jonathan Penn pre…
A report by Forrester Research is pushing the concept of the zero-trust security model, where packets are not trusted and the emphasis is on traffic inspection and access controls. – Between insider threats and malware attacks, the idea of trust-but-verify is
dead as a security model, according to a new report by Forrester Research.
In its place, Forrester analyst John Kindervag contends enterprises should
embrace the concept of zero trust, a model where insiders and outside…
Tech analysis: With the increasing popularity of virtualization comes a new problem: virtual sprawl. Keep your virtual machines under control with patch management and inventory software. – More and more IT
organizations are embracing virtual server and desktop infrastructure
technologies. A December 2009 report from Forrester Research found that 71
percent of the companies it surveyed are using server virtualization and
believe that 62 percent of their x86 server OS instances will…
Apple’s iPhone and iPad have seen increased adoption by the enterprise, but IT pros integrating the devices could need to institute additional security policies, according to a new Forrester report. – Apple has enjoyed increased enterprise adoption of the
iPhone and iPad but a new Forrester Research report makes it clear that, if
companies are to accept the devices into their fold, certain security policies
need to be implemented first.
The Aug. 2 report authored by Forrester analyst Andrew
…
In selling 3.27 million iPads in just over three weeks, Apple’s iPad has forced Forrester Research to revise its earlier estimates for tablet computer sales in the United States. This paves the way for great opportunity for tablets based on Google’s Android and Microsoft Windows. – Apple’s smash-hit iPad tablet computer is forcing analysts to break free from their conservative estimates.
Days after Apple officials claimed they had sold 3.27
million iPads in the quarter ending June 26, Forrester Research analyst
Sara Rotman Epps called her previous forecast for tablet com…
Forrester expects IT spending in the United States to ramp up in the second half of 2010. Overall, Forrester predicts that spending will be 9.9 percent more than in 2009, an increase from the 8.4 percent it predicted in April. – Forrester Research analysts are increasingly optimistic about the growth of
IT spending in the United States and around the world in the second half of
2010, despite the economic problems in Europe that have caused other analyst
companies to reduce their expectations for the rest of the year.
In…
Luxury firms are digital laggards, but some are catching up
WHEN Oscar de la Renta, an American fashion house, launched a transactional website some years ago, it expected people to buy mostly smaller items such as belts and perfume. The firm was stunned when it received an online order last spring for an $80,000 sable coat from a new customer in New Hampshire. He couldn’t get to New York, apparently. Online customers have been snapping up the firm’s core product: $4,000 cocktail dresses. “We could not have been more wrong in our expectations of the internet,” says Alex Bolen, the firm’s chief executive. Online purchases are still a small proportion of total sales, but growing rapidly.
Most luxury-goods firms are less open-minded. Many scorn the internet as a plaything for plebs. A product sold online, wrote Jean-Noel Kapferer, a French branding guru, in “The Luxury Strategy”, published last year, ceases to be a luxury item. In early 2008, of 178 luxury firms around the world surveyed by Forrester Research, only a third sold their products on the internet. That figure has risen, but still about half of firms don’t sell online at all, estimates Federico Marchetti, the founder of Yoox Group, owner of Yoox.com, a luxury-goods website. …
Based on Forrester Research report on online retailing, cost-conscious businesses should seriously consider investing in a mobile retailing strategy in order to stay competitive and grow market share. – Consumers increasing appetite for mobile applications is driving
online retailers to speed up their mobile marketing initiatives,
according to a Forrester Research study produced in partnership
with Shop.org, the National Retail Federations digital division.
Nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of…
Forrester Research said tablets, led by Apple’s iPad, will cannibalize netbooks in 2012 and outsell netbooks by 2014. Google’s Chrome Operating System is rolling out on netbooks, likely from Acer, Asus, HP and Lenovo this holiday season. What kind of chance do these machines stand in a market that is clearly becoming controlled by the iPad, and eventually tablets based on Google’s Android operating system? Analysts debate the issue. – Spurred by the success of Apple’s iPad, the tablet
computer market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 42 percent and
gobble up sales that would have normally gone to netbooks.
Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps
said tablets will cannibalize netbooks in 2012 and outsell netb…
Microsoft needs to follow several steps if it wants to compete against Apple’s iPad for share of the growing tablet PC market, according to a new Forrester research report. Among those steps: engaging with the right manufacturing partners, settling on appropriate price point and sales channels, and integrating the tablet with other Microsoft products such as the Xbox. Any Microsoft-produced tablet will also need a version of Windows 7 optimized for the form factor, the analysts added. A number of IT giants, ranging from Hewlett-Packard to Google, are in their own ways attempting to gain in the tablet market. – Microsoft could claim substantial market share from Apple in the growing
tablet PC arena, but will need to both engage its manufacturing partners and
create software that allows a tablet to interact with products such as the
Xbox, according to a research report produced by analyst firm Forrester….
Businesses have increased expectations on the security team in recent years, sometimes producing a disconnect between what is expected and what the security team can deliver. In a new report, Forrester Research lays out some advice for building an effective security organization. – As IT security has become a bigger part of business discussions, security teams have increasingly shifted their focus from operations to strategic business objectives.
For businesses building their security groups, there needs to be a balance between fulfilling operational and strategic goals, and …
Analysts differ on whether Google’s Webstore is a failure in the wake of Verizon and Sprint’s decisions to nix the Google Nexus One smartphone on their respective networks. Some experts see the device and its delivery model as casualties of carriers’ reluctance to support a device they can’t sell through their own retail channels. Forrester Research Charles Golvin said Google’s retail phone effort is indeed a failure to date, noting that consumers in the United States just aren’t ready to buy phones sight unseen. Others don’t see Google’s Webstore as a failure because it’s not the end goal where Android is concerned.
– Analysts have varying
opinions about whether Google’s Webstore is a failure in the wake of
Verizon and Sprint’s decisions to nix the Google Nexus One smartphone on their
respective networks.
Sprint reignited the theme
May 10 when it
confirmed it would not support the Android 2.1-based Nexus On…
Twitter’s Chirp conference April 14 was only the first, but it was a seminal event for a company that has traditionally shied away from sharing statistics. Twitter said its tweets are being archived in the Library of Congress, acknowledged 105.8 million users and formally launched @anywhere, its take on Facebook Connect, with Google, Amazon and media companies as partners. Promoted Tweets were also discussed. Forrester Research analyst Augie Ray said Twitter did its best work to endear itself to developers, which seemed to respond well.
– News Analysis: Twitter’s
Chirp conference was only the first but it was a seminal event for a company
that has traditionally shied away from sharing statistics.
Those following the April 14 event
learned that Twitter now has almost 106 million users, whose 55 million tweets
per day harking back…
Google declines to comment on a report from Engadget that it was mulling a move to make applications and components normally integrated on Android smartphones available through Android Market for users to download on their own schedule. Android has come under scrutiny because there have been so many versions released in just a few short years. Forrester Research Charles Golvin tells eWEEK that if Google does decouple its applications it would be a tacit acknowledgment that Android has become fragmented.
– If Google is really planning to roll out a version of Android that mitigates
the gross fragmentation issue among smartphones based on
that operating system, the company is keeping it to itself.
Google declined to comment on a report from Engadget that it was considering
a move to make applicati…
