Author: enews

The cloud storage market is a three-way race with the trailing pack choosing to occupy niches rather than challenge the leaders, according to the market scryers of Gartner. The firm last week issued a new “Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide” that listed just seven providers: AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, AT&T and Verizon. As the quadrant below shows, the first three companies we’ve mentioned are all designated leaders and the latter four are niche operators. Unusually, the analyst firm found no visionaries or challengers in the market.…

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With the accelerated adoption of smart devices (mainly smartphones and tablets) over the past few years, the growing mobility of employees, as well as the increased use of personal devices for work and the availability of cloud-based applications, mobility has emerged as a technology that businesses cannot afford to neglect. That’s the finding of IDC’s annual Enterprise Mobility Survey in Central and Eastern Europe. PRAGUE, June 16, 2015 – While mobility is considered essential by a growing number of companies in Western Europe’s more advanced countries, in Central and Eastern European…

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LONDON, June, 2015 — International Data Corporation’s (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker shows that in the first quarter of 2015 the EMEA server market continued the positive year-on-year growth seen throughout 2014, to report $3 billion in vendor revenue and 557,182 units shipped, for YoY growth of 6.3% and 3.5% respectively. The EMEA market has now shown positive YoY unit growth (3.5%) for the fourth consecutive quarter, though this is slightly slower than the growth seen in vendor revenue (6.3%), as vendor ASPs continue to increase as the EMEA market moves…

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People today don’t shop like they used to. Over the past few years, e-commerce and mobile shopping have experienced radical growth, shifting retailers’ focus, rightfully so, on improving those digital user experiences. Those experiences, however, are still inherently limited. People want the in-store benefits of seeing, touching and feeling products, and to do so surrounded by fellow brand loyalists. This all results in the reality that today’s shoppers truly live in both online and offline environments. So what does this mean for retailers? To get ahead, they need to sync…

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