Market Research

McAfee Set To Acquire Secure Computing, a Top Contender in Detecting Malware and Spyware

9/24/2008

During the same week security vendor McAfee said it intended to acquire Secure Computing in a deal valued at $465 million, Secure surfaced as a top contender in the results of testing done by AV Test Labs. In a comparison of 34 suite products, AV said Secure Web Anti-Malware (formerly WebWasher) detected 99.7 percent of malware present and 99.2 percent of adware and spyware, placing it third in both categories behind G DATA Software's AVK 2009 and Avira's Premium Security Suite 2008 for malware and AVK 2009 and F-Secure 2009 for adware and spyware. Read More

Telecom, Services, Wireless To Drive Education IT Spending to $56.2 Billion by 2012

9/22/2008

In the United States, IT spending in education will reach $47.7 billion by the end of this year and is expected to top $56 billion by 2012, according to a new report from Compass Intelligence, an IT consultancy and market research firm. This growth in education--both K-12 and higher ed--is being fueled in particular by expenditures in telecommunications, collaborative technologies, and outsourced IT services. Read More

Lumbering Global Economy Affects IT Industry

9/16/2008

The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry, according to a survey released recently by Forrester Research. The analyst firm's somewhat gloomy outlook says 43 percent of companies contacted have reduced their overall IT budgets this year, while 24 percent are curtailing discretionary spending. Read More

Report Outlines SMB SaaS Strategies for Vendors

8/25/2008

Software as a service (SaaS) for the small to medium-size business (SMB) market has opened potential opportunities for vendors, and a report released recently by Forrester Research offers some advice for gaining entry. Read More

The Cost of Piracy to Partners

7/15/2008

Worldwide, for every dollar lost to piracy, the cost to the partner ecosystem is more than five-fold--an aggregate of $5.50 resulting from $4.37 in lost revenues and $1.13 in higher costs. This according to a new study--the first of its kind focusing on the impact of piracy on partners--commissioned by Microsoft and released by IDC last week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008. Read More

Six Years Later, SIIA Releases The 2nd Edition Of Experts' Guide To The K-12 Market

6/11/2008

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) last week released the second edition of their popular Experts' Guide to the K-12 Market. Targeting an audience that includes senior executives, project managers, sales professionals, public relations practitioners, and policy makers, among others, the guide is intended as a resource to help businesses compete in the education industry. Read More

Research: Information Security Industry Set for Explosive Growth

5/9/2008

Driven by compliance and public confidence issues, information security is expected to expand dramatically over the next few years, according to new research released by Frost & Sullivan and (ISC)². Worldwide, the number of information security professionals will grow from 1.66 million in 2007 to about 2.7 million in 2012, experiencing a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent. Read More

SaaS Most Important Enterprise Software Trend

5/9/2008

According to a recent survey of 850 "enterprise software customers," software-as-a-service (SaaS) continues to be the most important enterprise software trend, followed closely by Web services/service-oriented architecture (SOA), then offshoring/globalization, open source software and software industry consolidation. Read More

Consolidation Bringing IT Budgets Down in 2008

4/29/2008

Information technology executives are focusing on cutting costs rather than investing in technology this quarter, according to a report released this week by research analysts at IDC. Read More

CIOs See Declining Budgets in Q1

4/10/2008

Although IT budgets are expected to grow in 2008 overall, about a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of 2008, according to a survey released by Gartner this month and highlighted at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo: Emerging Trends event this week in Las Vegas. Read More