IT leaders are now looking to build data centers that are abstracted from legacy hardware, and early users are turning to…
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Evolving SDN: Tackling challenges for web-scale deployments
Customers want mobility and rapid change through automation because this enables business to build speed in innovation. Software-defined networking embraces these…
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Retail’s reinvention: technology’s impact on today’s supply chain
Further growth of online sales is inevitable. This continued shift from brick-and-mortar retail shops to the online world affects everyone from…
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Proximity-based mobile social networking: outlook and analysis
Astute mobile application vendors are bringing to market applications that help mobile users connect and interact with people in close proximity.…
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How HR can make the case for workforce analytics
Once known for its online job boards and newspaper classified ads, talent management is now a $4 billion industry. Helping to…
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The 2013 task management tools market
The task-management market is an area of growing interest. Its growth is propelled in part by users’ needs to coordinate with…
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Sector RoadMap: health care and big data in 2012
The U.S. health care system is at a turning point where opportunities for big data and data analytics firms are likely…
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Sector RoadMap: crowd labor platforms in 2012
Crowd labor is outsourced information work that can be provisioned automatically. Ideally, it is is inexpensive, on demand, and elastic, and…
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Opportunities in next-generation battery technologies
Without electricity, today’s connected and mobile lifestyle for individuals and communities would be radically different. Countless consumer electronics, the internet, electrified…
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Mobile industry 2012 segment analysis
Few industries change at the pace mobile does. Whether it's the iPhone 5, the importance of LTE, or BYOD trends disrupting…
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IT spending update, third quarter 2012
While cloud, mobility, social, and analytics have been driving demand for IT products and services in 2012, the worldwide IT spending…
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Key steps for successful renewable-energy permitting
Developers of renewable-energy projects spend more time obtaining permits than building power facilities. They can take several steps that will greatly…
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Cloud computing and trickle-down analytics
Some people predict 2013 will be the year Hadoop becomes mainstream. Such an occurrence will only be possible if the technology…
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Cloud computing infrastructure: 2012 and beyond
Cloud computing continues to change and shape the technology industry, and these days discussions are about more than simply reorganizing the…
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Global virtual goods forecast, 2010—2016
Virtual goods sales have become a significant portion of social networks’ revenues and are a growing revenue contributor for mobile apps…
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The promise of hyperlocal: opportunities for publishers and developers
Advertisers have long been enamored with the promise of location-based advertising (LBA). To date, however, national advertisers’ and agencies’ enthusiasm has…
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Monetizing music in the post-scarcity age
On-demand streaming is only one part of a much broader transition taking place in the digital music industry: the shift from…
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Beyond social: the crowd-based enterprise
The social enterprise is being touted as the next big thing: the new way to do business, a social way to…
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The future of Wi-Fi in the enterprise
Wi-Fi is the technology that has first brought wireless broadband to the market — both among residential users and in the…
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Connected world: the consumer technology revolution
Connectivity changes everything. That's the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now…
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Finding new solutions for the new age of wireless networks
Mobile operators face an unprecedented growth in data traffic stemming from multiple dimensions — subscribers, devices and applications among them. But…
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Forecast: the future of near field communication
Near field communication (NFC) is a very short-range radio frequency ID method that provides a way to use a cell phone…
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Millennials in the enterprise, part 2: benchmarking IT’s readiness for the new digital workforce
A new generation, the Millennials, is gaining a significant presence in today’s digital workplace. These young employees were born in the…
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Smart Grid Apps: Six Trends That Will Shape Grid Evolution
As the deployment of utility smart grid infrastructure gains scale and maturity, the industry’s focus is beginning to shift from standards,…
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