Archive for January, 2011
From ESG Research Report, 2011 IT Spending Intentions Survey:
Over half (52%) of respondents indicated that their IT spending will increase in 2011, as opposed to 2009, when 43% of respondents reported an increase in IT spending that year.
Amazon’s latest announcement, about Elastic Beanstalk, an application server service, highlights the current trend of leading infrastructure providers becoming full platform providers.
Platforms can bring far more value to developers, system architects, and enterprise customers. If well architected, they can abstract problems like scalability, security, and ...
Analysis of the IT hiring and labor climate is a critical element in determining where IT services providers should focus efforts in 2011. While overall hiring and labor trends remain similar to 2010 in terms of growth and cuts, front-end skills supporting new application rollouts are moving back to the ...
I love being an analyst. It’s my job to learn and teach. I spent two days this week in NYC at the EMC analyst event, which they combined with one of the biggest product launches any storage company has ever done.
While most in the room were drooling over ...
New ESG survey data finds that the majority of North American private- and public-sector organizations will increase IT spending in 2011. ESG’s Vertical Opportunity Index Score (VOIS) rankings reveal that organizations in industries such as health care, business services, and the federal government represent the most promising IT market opportunities ...
Here is some interesting data that came out of the 2011 IT Spending Intentions report from ESG Research. In a global survey of 611 IT professionals from mid-market (i.e., 100-1000 employees) and enterprise (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) organizations, 46% of all firms reported they will increase ...
There’s a famous Oscar Wilde saying (or a Monty Python parody of Oscar Wilde, I forget which) that goes something like this – “The only think worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.” Based on that, EMC’s ’Cirque du Storage’ event earlier this week ...
“It was really quite breathtaking to see an EMC presentation that talks about being the price leader,’’ said Mark Peters, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Boulder, Colo., who attended the New York conference. Peters said EMC is heading downmarket because even small businesses are seeing massive growth in ...
According to ESG’s 2011 IT spending intentions survey, nearly half of all organizations will increase networking spending in 2011—good news for networking companies like Blue Coat, Cisco, Extreme Networks, F5, HP, Juniper Networks, and Riverbed. Survey respondents’ highest spending priority is network security, followed by network management, WLAN, and IP ...
Today, Microsoft and HP report on the progress of their extended partnership with the announcement of appliances that target business intelligence and Big Data. Building on the momentum of their Fast Track program and the previously announced HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, the HP Business Decision Appliance is now available ...
