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    1. Cloud will Eclipse The PC As The Hub Of Consumers' Digital Lives By 2014

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      The personal cloud is poised to eclipse the PC as the hub of consumers' digital lives by 2014 as rapid growth in the use of apps and services introduces a new paradigm for how people store, synchronize, share and stream content, according to Gartner, Inc.

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    2. Gartner Says Worldwide Media Tablets Sales to Reach 119 Million Units in 2012

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      Worldwide media tablet sales to end users are forecast to total 118.9 million units in 2012, a 98 percent increase from 2011 sales of 60 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. (Read Full Article)

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    3. Gartner Says Fewer Than 30 Percent of Large Organizations Will Block Social Media by 2014

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      Fewer than 30 percent of large organizations will block employee access to social media sites by 2014, compared with 50 percent in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. The number of organizations blocking access to all social media is dropping by around 10 percent a year. (Read Full Article)

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    4. Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Soared in Fourth Quarter of 2011 With

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      Worldwide smartphone sales to end users soared to 149 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 47.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and accounted for 31 percent of all mobile devices sales, up 58 percent from 2010. (Read Full Article)

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    5. Gartner Says Western European PC Shipments Fell 16 Percent in Fourth Quarter of 2011

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      PC shipments in Western Europe totaled 16.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 16 per cent decline from the equivalent period in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. For the year, PC shipments numbered 58.5 million units in Western Europe in 2011, also a 16 percent decrease from 2010. (Read Full Article)

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    6. Gartner Says Platform as a Service Is On the Cusp of Several Years of Strategic Growth

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      Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according to Gartner, Inc. (Read Full Article)

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    7. Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending to Reach $2.7 Trillion in 2012

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      Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012, a 3.9 percent increase from 2011 spending of $2.6 trillion, according to Gartner, Inc. While enterprise IT spending growth is slowing (from the expected 5.9 percent increase in 2011), analysts said it's important to note that despite the global economic challenges, enterprises will continue to invest in IT. (Read Full Article)

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    8. Gartner Special Report Examines How the iPad and Media Tablets Are Impacting the Future of Computing

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      Multitouch on the iPad and other media tablets has liberated users from the hardware keyboard and pointing device (aka the mouse), and as media tablets become more commonplace, users will expect the convenience and simplicity of multitouch user interfaces when they interact with other computing devices, according to Gartner, Inc. (Read Full Article)

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    9. 95 Percent of Organizations Will Maintain or Grow Use of SaaS

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      More than 95 percent of organizations expect to maintain or increase their investments in software as a service (SaaS) and more than one-third have migration projects under way from on-premises to SaaS, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. (Read Full Article)

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    10. Gartner Says By End of 2014 at Least 10 Percent of Enterprise Email Seats Will Be Based on a Cloud or Software-as-a-Service Model

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      By the end of 2014, penetration of cloud email and collaboration services (CECS) will stand at 10 percent and will have passed the "tipping point" with broad-scale adoption under way, according to Gartner, Inc. (Read Full Article)

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    11. Gartner Says North America to Account for 64 Percent of SaaS Revenue in 2011

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      Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is on pace to reach $12.1 billion in 2011, a 20.7 percent increase from 2010 of $10 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The North American region is forecast to account for 63.6 percent of worldwide SaaS revenue in 2011. By the end of 2015, North America's share will represent 60.8 percent of worldwide SaaS revenue. (Read Full Article)

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    12. Gartner Says PC Shipments to Slow to 3.8 Percent Growth in 2011; Units to Increase 10.9 Percent in 2012

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      Worldwide PC unit growth is on pace to total 352 million units in 2011, a 3.8 percent increase from 2010, according to the latest preliminary forecast by Gartner, Inc. PC shipments are forecast to see better growth by the end 2012, when units are expected to reach 404 million units, a 10.9 percent increase from 2011. (Read Full Article)

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    13. Gartner Says Sales of Mobile Devices in Second Quarter of 2011 Grew 16.5 Percent Year-on-Year; Smartphone Sales Grew 74 Percent

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      Worldwide sales of mobile devices to end users totaled 428.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 16.5 percent increase from the second quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. (see Table 1). (Read Full Article)

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    14. Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Connections Will Reach 5.6 Billion in 2011 as Mobile Data Services Revenue Totals $314.7 Billion

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      Worldwide mobile connections will reach 5.6 billion in 2011, up 11 percent from 5 billion connections in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Mobile data services revenue will total $314.7 billion in 2011, a 22.5 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $257 billion. (Read Full Article)

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    15. Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Payment Users to Reach 141 Million in 2011

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      Worldwide mobile payment users will surpass 141.1 million in 2011, a 38.2 percent increase from 2010, when mobile payment users reached 102.1 million, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide mobile payment volume is forecast to total $86.1 billion, up 75.9 percent from 2010 volume of $48.9 billion. (Read Full Article)

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    16. Gartner and Forbes U.S. Board of Directors Survey Shows Expectations of IT's Strategic Contribution Will Double for 2012

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      In the midst of a belief that tough times lie ahead, more boards of directors are saying that they expect a high to extremely high strategic contribution of IT in 2012, according to the Gartner Forbes 2011 U.S. Board of Directors Survey. The expectations of "high" to "extremely high" strategic contributions of IT climbed from 32 percent of survey respondents for 2010 to 66 percent for 2012. (Read Full Article)

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    17. Gartner Says 428 Million Mobile Communication Devices Sold Worldwide in First Quarter 2011, a 19 Percent Increase Year-on-Year

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      Worldwide mobile communication device sales to end users totaled 427.8 million units in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 19 percent from the first quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphones continued to outpace the rest of the market, and a newly competitive mid-tier smartphone market will drive smartphones into mass adoption and accelerate this trend. (Read Full Article)

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    18. Gartner Identifies Five Ways to Migrate Applications to the Cloud

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      Organizations seeking to move applications into the cloud have five options: rehost on infrastructure as a service (IaaS), refactor for platform as a service (PaaS), revise for IaaS or PaaS, rebuild on PaaS, or replace with software as a service (SaaS), according to Gartner, Inc. (Read Full Article)

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    19. Gartner Says CIOs Must Take Steps to Manage Risk and Unexpected Costs During the Cloud Sourcing Revolution

      Explore gartner.com (Apr 27 2011) Marketing

      The $820 billion IT services market is changing quickly and dramatically, as cloud computing and offshoring become mainstream, and CIOs should take steps to manage inherent risks and unexpected costs during the cloud services revolution, according to Gartner, Inc. (Read Full Article)

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    20. Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments in First Quarter of 2011 Suffer First Year-Over-Year Decline in Six Quarters

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      Worldwide PC shipments totaled 84.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011, a 1.1 percent decline from the first quarter of 2010, according to preliminary results Gartner, Inc. Although the first quarter is traditionally a slow one for PC sales, these shipment results indicate potential sluggishness, not just a normal seasonal slowdown. These figures are below Gartner's earlier forecast for 3 percent growth in the first quarter of 2011. (Read Full Article)

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    21. Gartner Says 2011 Will Be the Year of Platform as a Service

      Explore gartner.com (Mar 13 2011) Business Models , Marketing

      All the leading enterprise software vendors, as well as large cloud specialists, will introduce new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings this year, making 2011 the year of PaaS, according to Gartner, Inc. These leading vendors are expected to deliver new or strongly expanded PaaS service offerings and cloud-enabled application infrastructure products. (Read Full Article)

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    22. Gartner Highlights Four Risks CIOs Should Address When Contracting for Cloud Services

      Explore gartner.com (Mar 8 2011)

      Although cloud offerings are rapidly maturing, the immaturity of cloud service contracting means that many contracts have structural deficits, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner has identified four risky issues that CIOs and sourcing executives should be aware of when contracting for cloud services. (Read Full Article)

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    23. Gartner Says Data Warehousing Reaching Its Most Significant Inflection Point Since Its Inception

      Explore gartner.com (Feb 22 2011)

      2011 will be the year when data warehousing reaches what could well be its most-significant inflection point since its inception, according to Gartner Inc. The biggest, and possibly most-elaborate data management system in the IT house is changing. The new data warehouse will introduce new scope for flexibility in adding new information types and change detection. (Read Full Article)

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    24. Gartner Survey Shows U.S. Consumers More Likely to Purchase a Smartphone Than Other Consumer Devices in 2011

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      Consumers in the United States are more likely to buy a smartphone in 2011 than PCs, mobile phones, e-readers, media tablets and gaming products, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. U.S. smartphone sales are expected to grow from 67 million units in 2010 to 95 million units in 2011. By comparison, mobile PC shipments are forecast to total 50.9 million in the United States. in 2011, up from 45.6 million ... (Read Full Article)

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