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Middle East IT Spending Is Projected to Total $192.9 Billion in 2013
Mar 7, 2013Middle East IT spending is projected to total $192.9 billion in 2013, a 5.5 percent increase from 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The findings were revealed by Peter Sondergaard, Senior VP and Global Head of Research, ...
Tags: IT Spending, 2013, Gartner
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Now That Microsoft Has Finally Launched Its Next-Generation Operating System
Dec 27, 2012Now that Microsoft has finally launched its next-generation operating system, Windows 8, it must tackle what may be the most daunting marketing challenge it has ever faced. Once the supreme leader of personal computing, Microsoft is now ...
Tags: Microsoft, operating system, Windows 8, marketing challenge
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Gartner Isn't Significantly Raising Its Global It Growth Forecast
Dec 27, 2012The economic picture that Gartner's head of research, Peter Sondergaard, painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando was upbeat in a surprising way. While Gartner isn't significantly raising its global IT growth ...
Tags: Gartner, Peter Sondergaard, Symposium/ITxpo conference, Big Data
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Barclays Is Attempting to Redefine Banking as It Tries to Mimic The Success of Companies
Dec 24, 2012Does banking have the allure of a new Apple product? Barclays Bank thinks it does. Barclays is attempting to redefine banking as it tries to mimic the success of companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. PingIt, the bank's real-time ...
Tags: banking, Apple product, Barclays, payment application
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IT Spending in The EMEA Region Will Reach $1.154 Trillion in 2013
Dec 18, 2012IT spending in the EMEA region will reach $1.154 trillion in 2013, a 1.4 percent increase from 2012 projected spending of $1.138 trillion, according to Gartner. Despite the ongoing economic malaise, Gartner sees pockets of growth in IT in ...
Tags: EMEA, Gartner, IT, IT spending, mobile devices
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Big Data Is Becoming an Engine of Job Creation to Turn Data Into Revenue
Dec 17, 2012There were a lot of reasons for Gartner researchers to give a gloomy economic outlook at its Symposium/ITxpo conference here, especially after the latest round of quarterly reports from Intel, IBM and others. But the picture painted by ...
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Digitisation Is Becoming Pervasive. Organisations Are Moving Spending to Digital
Dec 17, 2012According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, Barcelona, Digitisation
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Many Global Organisations Have Failed to Implement a Data Management Strategy
Dec 17, 2012Many global organisations have failed to implement a data management strategy but will have to as IT leaders need to support big data volumes, velocity and variety, according to a new Gartner report. In its Predicts 2013: Big Data and ...
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Gartner Is Urging CIOs to Change Their IT Budget to Support a Nexus of Change Arising
Nov 15, 2012Gartner is urging CIOs to change their IT budget to support a nexus of change arising from cloud, social, big data and mobile technology. The analyst expects traditional IT will have to split its budget to support these emerging ...
Tags: Gartner, cloud, social, big data, mobile technology
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Gartner Estimated That Big Data Will Create 1.9 Million New Jobs in The U.S. Through 2015
Oct 24, 2012The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating new jobs. Gartner estimated this week that big data will create 1.9 million new jobs in the U.S. through 2015. Michael Rappa ...
Tags: interview, social networks, sensors, supply chains, data analytics
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Android Was The Next Mobile Platform Pushed Onto IT and Now Comes Windows 8
Oct 23, 2012First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
Tags: Apple, mobile platform, IT operations, Android, Gartner, tech trends