Analyst report stories - Page 219

The role of chief marketing technologist hasn’t even reached its tenth anniversary. Yet it’s already starting to change. Why?.

The crowdfunding landscape remains in its infancy, marked by fragmentation and diverse models. Analyst Anthony J. Bradley explores this emerging sector.

Flash-based storage continues to move from being an expensive niche technology targeted at a few workloads to a more mainstream technology.

For the first time, over 300 million smartphones shipped worldwide in Q2 2014, with Android driving the surge, capturing record market share.

Gartner says CIOs and endpoint computing managers should get ahead of the game and avoid the issues many organisations encountered last time.

Chromebook sales forecast to nearly triple by 2017, as vendors dive into the thriving market aiming to rejuvenate sub-$300 PC interest.

Deputy PM Bill English opened Plan B's new data centre in Wellington, emphasising the importance of business continuity and data backup measures.

You’re a technologist, and you want to know how to start a company or a product, how to generate a division or develop a new opportunity. Get rejected: Fail.

Plan B Limited opens new data center and standby office facility in Wellington, New Zealand. Integrated cloud backup services and customer suites are available.

Do you wonder where all the interest in social went? Once the hottest trend since sliced bread, interest in social definitely dissipated.

IT spending is set to improve in H2 2014, with a significant commercial PC refresh cycle already underway, says IDC.

A lot can be learned by observing the changing of the guard. Often, behind the dignified theatre of it all is a much more chaotic reality.

It is amusing to see the marketing currently attempted by using an offshoot of the phrase 'Internet of Things'.

Amazon dips a toe in 3D printing with a personalised product store, but will it revolutionise the market? Early signs suggest not yet.

3D printing may be garnering all the headlines at the moment, but the news isn't bad for the rest of the printing sector either, Heather Wright discovers.

Smartphone sales hit a record 295.3m in Q2 2014, as demand for mobile computing soars, buoyed by cheap models and emerging markets.

Gartner warns against the data lake hype, highlighting risks from lack of governance to security concerns in the information management sphere.

In a world obsessed with numbers, Carol Rozwell cautions against blindly trusting statistics without understanding their context and actionability.

Analyst Gartner predicts Apple’s iPhone 6 will “set the world on fire” and dominate the market, with demand for a larger screen also driving sales.

We like to think that IT is cranking out new technology faster and faster—but it isn’t. It’s twenty years or bust....