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Research Indicates that Cloud Increases Short Term Costs for Long Term Gains – IDG Enterprise’s Survey Details Enterprise Cloud Strategy and Vendor Opportunities

April 2nd, 2012

IDG Enterprise news release

Framingham, Mass. – IDG Enterprise—the media company comprising CFOworld, CIO, CIO Executive Council, Computerworld, CSO, DEMO, InfoWorld, ITworld and Network World—releases the results from the 2012 Cloud Computing survey examining cloud computing implementation, usage, investment plans and vendor requirements.

The survey, completed by more than 1,650 IT and security decision-makers from a range of industries, highlights the growth in cloud computing investments, demonstrating the value cloud computing provides to organizations. Respondents state that 34% of their current IT budget is allocated to cloud computing solutions and more than half (63%) expect to increase spending in the next 12 months. On average, organizations will increase cloud computing spending by 16%.

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The CIO-CMO Partnership in Practice

March 6th, 2012

CIO Insight

The CIO and CMO of Model Metrics, a cloud computing and consulting firm, explain how their philosophy of radical openness has created a closely aligned partnership that benefits the company as a whole.

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IDC Predicts Cloud Services, Mobile Computing, and Social Networking to Mature and Coalesce in 2011, Creating a New Mainstream for the IT Industry

December 2nd, 2010

IDC News Release, 12/2/10

Transformation has been a recurring theme in the annual International Data Corporation (IDC) Predictions over the past several years. During this time, a wave of disruptive technologies has emerged and evolved, forged by the pressures of a global economic recession. In 2011, and certainly beyond, IDC expects these technologies — cloud services, mobile computing, and social networking — to mature and coalesce into a new mainstream platform for both the IT industry and the industries it serves.

“In 2011, we expect to see these transformative technologies make the critical transition from early adopter status to early mainstream adoption,” said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC. “As a result, we’ll see the IT industry revolving more and more around the build-out and adoption of this next dominant platform, characterized by mobility, cloud-based application and service delivery, and value-generating overlays of social business and pervasive analytics. In addition to creating new markets and opportunities, this restructuring will overthrow nearly every assumption about who the industry’s leaders will be and how they establish and maintain leadership.”

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Smartphones and Tablets Take Over in 2011, Researchers Say

December 2nd, 2010

NY Times, 12/2/10

The research firm IDC predicts that in 2011, computing’s third major technology wave will become mainstream, when computers held in one’s hand — smartphones and tablets — really take over and start putting personal computers in the rearview mirror.

Next year, the research firm says in a report published Thursday, there will be 330 million smartphones sold worldwide and 42 million media tablets. Tablet sales are expected to more than double next year, and to keep climbing, “breezing by netbooks, the phenomenon of two years ago,” said Frank Gens, chief analyst for IDC.

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Microsoft launches Office 365, makes cloud move

October 19th, 2010

IDG News Service, 10/19/10

Microsoft made its long-awaited move to package the hosted version of Office with the hosted versions of Lync, SharePoint and Exchange with the unveiling on Tuesday of Office 365.

Office 365, scheduled to ship next year, is now available in limited beta form in 13 countries and regions and includes Office Web Apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online.

Office 365 for companies with fewer than 25 employees will cost US$6 per user per month. For larger organizations, Microsoft will offer additional options, including the first time Office Professional Plus on a subscription basis for $24 per user per month.

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Shifting Customer Expectations Will Affect Adoption of Outsourced Cloud Service Delivery Models, According to IDC

October 8th, 2010

IDC News Release, 10/8/10

Recently published demand-side research by International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals that the move toward outsourced cloud services will dramatically change the requirements that outsourcers and service providers will need to meet to align with the performance and relationship expectations of customers.

The study, U.S. Customers Give Outsourcers a Thumbs Up in Performance, But Expectations Are on the Rise with the Move Toward Outsourced Cloud Services (Doc #222817), indicates access to new delivery models (e.g., cloud, software as a service [SaaS]) is becoming very important. This increased need to use these new models is going to significantly elevate customer expectations regarding the performance of their providers and subsequently change their relationship with providers. Changing customer expectations will require that providers, particularly “traditional” outsourcers such as – IBM, HP, CSC, Accenture, Wipro, TCS, Infosys, Capgemini, and Fujitsu – radically alter their current outsourcing business models.

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