Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:59 pm

Cloud computing: SaaS used to augment business intelligence

Stamford (ip-192.com): Nearly one third of organizations uses or plans to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions. According to a survey of 1,364 IT managers and business users of BI platforms in the fourth quarter of 2011, only 17 percent of organizations have replaced or plan to [...]

North America, Europe: MDM software sales set to grow

Stamford (ip-192.com): Worldwide master data management (MDM) software revenue will reach $1.9 billion in 2012, a 21 percent increase from 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. The software is used in organizations to ensure that only one version of the same master data is used in different parts of its operations. The market is forecast to [...]

Revenue from Ethernet services is growing rapidly

Framingham (ip-192.com): Adoption rates for Ethernet services are soaring, propelled by superior cost effectiveness, high-bandwidth scalability, ease of implementation, and overall flexibility. According to study from International Data Corporation (IDC), total U.S. Ethernet revenue will increase from $3.4 billion in 2010 to $8.2 billion in 2015. Datacenter connectivity, disaster recovery/business continuity, and data storage replication [...]

Japan: Negative growth for SMB IT market

Tokyo (ip-192.com): Small and medium-sized businesses (SMB’s) in Japan continue to struggle after the earthquake that did strike the east coast in March 2011, and the negative growth is forecast to remain in effect for all industry sectors. In 2011, the International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates the Japan SMB IT market will reach 3,381 billion [...]