Actifio, the Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform company, has announced it was chosen as one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors …
Gartner says half of enterprises are wasting money on social media
Getting a positive return on investment from a social media campaign is about more than tracking the number of your …
CRM has become a higher priority for CIOs: Gartner
Customer relationship management (CRM) has moved from 18th to 8th technology priority for CIOs in 2012, according to a global …
Gartner slashes IT spending forecast
Analyst Gartner has slashed its forecast for worldwide IT spending growth for 2012. Gartner now estimates worldwide IT spending will …
Global SaaS spending to rise 17.9% to $14.5 billion: Gartner
Global spending on SaaS (software-as-a-service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to $14.5 billion, according to figures released yesterday by …
MEA server shipments increased 10% in 2011: Gartner
Server shipments in the MEA region exceeded 78,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 10.3% year-on-year increase, while …
Businesses’ private clouds must rival public providers: Gartner
IT departments must build private clouds for critical applications to provide employees with the benefits of rapid provisioning and pay-as-you-go …
MEA enterprise IT spending to grow 6.3%: Gartner
Middle East and Africa enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to reach 70 billion Euros in 2012, …
Android loses market share,as Apple soars: Gartner
Android lost smartphone market share for the first time, as Apple had a great fourth quarter buoyed by the launch …
Existing industry models will be challenged through 2015: Gartner
Enterprises have difficult and challenging times ahead, and need to adapt to new technologies to remain competitive in the upcoming …
Avaloq Group visionary in Gartner Quadrant
Avaloq Group announced it has been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant by Gartner in the recently released Magic Quadrant for …
Master data management revenue to grow 21% in 2012: Gartner
Worldwide master data management (MDM) software revenue will reach $1.9 billion in 2012, a 21 percent increase from 2011, according …
Gartner to CIOs: Weigh on Euro crisis
With the Eurozone crisis threatening to bring the world into another global recession, Gartner is advising CIOs to be on …
Private clouds are a last resort: Gartner
Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet …
RISC, Itanium lose out to x86 in Q3 server market: Gartner
The worldwide server market grew by unit shipments and revenue in the third quarter this year, but the downward spiral …
Security services spending to hit $49B in 2015: Gartner
Gartner recently predicted that corporate spending across the world for a broad swath of security services will climb from about …
EMEA enterprise IT spend will decline: Gartner
Enterprise IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will reach €604 billion in 2011, a 1.4% decline …
Financial sector facing shift in attitude towards the cloud: Gartner
A rapid shift in attitude towards cloud banking is happening within the financial services (FS) industry, according to Gartner. A …
Web sales through mobile apps and social presence to grow exponentially: Gartner
By 2015, companies will generate 50% of Web sales via their social presence and mobile applications, according to Gartner. Vendors …
Private clouds are a last resort: Gartner
Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet …