Research

Growth of Streaming Market Driven by On-campus Students and Worried Workers

12/10/2008

A new study concludes that real-time videoconferencing, streaming, and lecture capture solutions for distance education and e-learning markets is growing not to address the needs of remote students but to accommodate demand from campus-based users who want the ability to attend class whenever and however they wish. Read More

Aruba Launches Collaborative Program for Partners

10/29/2008

Aruba Networks has launched Aruba Labs, a new three-pronged research program designed in part to provide development partners with resources for researching and prototyping WiFi applications. 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

Security Market: K-12 Schools Rate Themselves 'Vulnerable'

5/21/2008

A large percentage of schools consider themselves open for physical and data breaches. In a new study conducted by Quality Education Data and released this week by CDW Government (CDW-G), 39 percent of K-12 IT and security personnel rate their institutions as only "moderately safe" to "very vulnerable." 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

Next-gen WiFi Expected To Be in 99% of North American Campuses by 2013

5/2/2008

Although the wireless standard 802.11n is found in less than 3 percent of North American universities currently, it will be available in 99 percent by 2013, according to a new study by ABI Research. According to the research firm, the increases are driven by a variety of needs and demands in both K-12 and higher education. Read More