June 20, 2011 10:01 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
tabletAs Hewlett-Packard preps its would-be Apple iPad killer -- the HP TouchPad -- for release on July 1, a new research report from
June 13, 2011 7:08 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Agilysys,
ePlus,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
M&A,
merger,
mergers and acquisitionsSince I wrote my article last month about the spike in channel mergers and acquisitions, two more big deals have come to my attention -- one aimed at expanding the service footprint of the acquiring...
June 6, 2011 9:00 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesThere have been many prognostications about the bring-your-own-device movement, the phrase used to describe the phenomenon of people using their own IT equipment for work purposes. Mainly, it covers mobile devices from smartphones to notebooks. No one doubts it is happening, the question is the...
May 31, 2011 6:03 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
ABI Research,
digital signage,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesWhen I first started covering the market for digital signage solutions -- all those electronic displays that can deliver messages in places from retail floors to board rooms along with the software content and connectivity to deliver those messages-- it was difficult to get many people to look...
May 26, 2011 6:19 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CDW,
cloud computing,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesHere's one for your "hmmm" files: IT solution provider CDW has just released its first Cloud Computing Tracking Poll, which is based on a survey of 1,200 IT professionals that are involved with corporate cloud computing...
May 6, 2011 12:48 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Accenture,
CSC,
Fujitsu,
Gartner,
Heather Clancy,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and services,
IT ServicesMarket research firm Gartner figures that IT services spending reached $793 billion in 2010, which represents a 3.1 percent increase from 2009 numbers. While this certainly couldn't be classified as a huge growth, it sure beats the 5.1...
April 27, 2011 6:34 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
cloud computing,
Forester Research,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
private cloud,
public cloudI've had my head in cloud business practices on the brain lately, because of a project that I'm in the process of finishing up this week. If you're in the process of evaluating your own options, you should definitely check out some new data Forrester Research in the form of a report called
April 25, 2011 9:12 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
CDW,
Heather Clancy,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and services,
survey,
videoconferencingMan, oh man, people just can't stop talking about videoconferencing this year -- and its potential to explode in adoption over the next 18 months to two years.
April 18, 2011 8:54 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Gary Vaynverchuk,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
The Thank-You EconomyI still get at least a couple of business books every month (in hard cover, no less). I try to skim through most of them to see if they are relevant to the myriad things I cover, but rarely set off to read the whole thing. There are exceptions, of course, one of them being the new book called
