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Published on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 11:36 am | 3 Comments »
Authors: Mark Bowker | Perry Laberis |
The Movement Toward Integrated Computing: The Foundations for Cloud
The idea that virtualization technologies are revolutionizing the market is no longer novel. Though the conversation has shifted toward cloud computing, server virtualization remains the foundation. Driven by numerous benefits including lower capital and operational costs, greater IT efficiency and agility, and ...
Authors: Mark Bowker | Perry Laberis |
I’m in the midst of my US naturalization process. Aside from anything else, one of the requirements in the process is to provide details of overseas trips one has made over many years as a resident in the US. Since I’ve changed jobs, laptops, and even calendar applications over that ...
For quite some time virtual desktops have been growing in popularity, first as a means to effectively deliver desktops for call centers, support desks, etc., and now it has become an increasingly popular strategy for dealing with an ever growing “bring your own device to work” problem. That is, how ...
Published on Thursday, December 29th, 2011 at 1:08 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jon Oltsik | Perry Laberis |
Recent ESG research indicates that the remote worker population will grow significantly over the next three years. Why? Organizations see ROI on remote worker programs in terms of cost reduction, higher employee morale, and improved productivity. While these are attractive benefits, ESG believes that today’s laissez-faire remote worker programs have ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jon Oltsik | Perry Laberis |
Yesterday I blogged about why I am so excited to be tackling the online file storage and collaboration market and the impact of consumerization and mobility on unstructured data storage strategies. Today I am please to share that I will be speaking on the topic at the CITE (Consumerization ...
These past few months I’ve been working diligently with ace ESG research analyst Kristine Kao to examine how workforce mobility and consumerization are driving the online file storage and collaboration market. Today I am happy to announce that we’ve published a comprehensive report on this space that examines the ...
“Fire up your laptop”!?!?!? I’ve lost count of how many times I have heard this expression and remain baffled by how end-users have become accustomed to and accept the fact that it can take minutes, many minutes in some cases, before a user begins to productively start work. This is ...
ESG recently completed research of 454 IT professionals responsible for supporting IT requirements at their organization’s ROBO (remote office branch office)sites. The research was focused on both midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 or more employees) organizations from North America (30% midmarket, 70% enterprise).
At a high level, the ...
The trend to leverage mobile computing devices for business purposes is rapidly increasing. I can remember joining ESG five years ago and I was the only person in the company with a Blackberry. Now just about everyone in the company has at least one mobile computing device, if not several. ...
October 12-14th saw the inaugural Dell World in sunny Austin. In creating this new event, Dell took another measured step on its march to being a big grown-up soup-to-nuts IT company. After all, that’s what the ‘big boys’ do, eh? And it’s commendable.
Not surprisingly, as a first effort, ...
