Organizations that adopt business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), and advanced analytics are more than twice as likely to outperform their peers. IDC research also found that managers at the most competitive organizations are two times more reliant on business … Continue reading
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At least eight in 10 smartphones shipped globally in the first quarter of 2012 were powered by Android and iOS. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android and iOS held shares of 59.0% and 23.0% respectively of … Continue reading
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China is set to achieve another milestone. By 2013, IT spending in China will reach US$173 billion, exceeding Japan’s market by 4%, according to IDC’s latest forecast. Demand from consumers and new projects spurred by the government’s 12th Five-Year Plan … Continue reading
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The momentum is building in the rapidly evolving mobile HTML5 space. According to IDC, 79% of surveyed mobile app developers plan to integrate HTML5 in the apps they will launch in 2012; there will be more than 1 billion HTML5 … Continue reading
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Flash memory in enterprise applications is enabling new capabilities in enterprise storage and is an enabler of cloud storage offerings. The use of flash memory is the driving force for higher speed storage connections such as PCIe and 12 Gb/s … Continue reading
After weeks of rumors, Google has finally launched its cloud-storage service, Drive. Like Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox and Amazon Cloud Drive, the service syncs users’ offline files with an online storage space that can be accessed from anywhere. Unlike these other services, however, it … Continue reading
LTE phone shipments will grow tenfold to reach 67 million units in 2012, making it a breakout year for the 4G technology, Strategy Analytics said on Friday. Operators such as Verizon Wireless, NTT Docomo, and SK Telecom in the … Continue reading
We all know mobile device usage is on the rise—but what is driving this technological revolution? According to Ericsson’s newest Traffic and Market Data report, we can expect traffic generated by advanced smartphones to increase 12-fold to roughly equal mobile PC-generated traffic … Continue reading