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Cool Vendors in 2012 exist on a backdrop of what Gartner terms the nexus of four IT forces – cloud, social, mobile, and information. Those forces, along with the continued impact of consumerization, have essentially set the stage for the next generation of capabilities.
As enterprises begin to use public and private cloud computing, security must be addressed from the start. Gartner research maps the key issues involved in structuring different business approaches with secure cloud computing services.
The media tablet market did not exist in early 2010. But now, millions of workers use these tablets in the enterprise every day and the tablet market is just the tip of the mobility iceberg. Just below the surface lies a torrent of innovations that include mobile applications, social media, mobile health, cloud computing, mobile payments, interconnected machines, mobile collaboration, and wireless technologies.
The Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast is the leading indicator of major technology trends across the hardware, software, IT services and telecom markets. For more than a decade, global IT and business executives have been using these highly anticipated quarterly reports to recognize market opportunities and challenges, and base their critical business decisions on proven methodologies rather than guesswork.
Private cloud computing is moving rapidly from the drawing board to deployments. Gartner's 2011 research on private cloud will focus on planning for future trends, technologies used to build the private cloud, and managing process and organization changes.
The emergence of personal clouds reflects consumers' desire to access content on any device without complications or restrictions. Business leaders must meet consumers' cloud expectations in order to win customers in 2012.
Hybrid IT is the result of combining internal and external services, usually from a combination of internal and public clouds, in support of a business outcome. Interest in the public cloud has been tempered by adoption risks, leading to architectures that connect internal core services and critical data to external, commoditized services.
Strategic technologies are those with the potential for significant impact on enterprises during the next three years. Gartner's list of the top 10 strategic technology trends highlights 10 key trends that companies should be factoring into their strategic plans.
The Apple iPad and its competitors in the coming media tablet wave have captured the imagination of business leaders. This special report highlights Gartner's research and advice to customers on best practices for business uses of iPads and other media tablets.
Why cloud? A less expensive version of IT as it now exists isn't the answer. In this research, we discuss the destination for the cloud and what IT Leaders need to think about en route.
Applications and underlying business processes are changing at unprecedented speed. To keep up with the rate of change, organizations need to develop a layered application strategy that allows them to establish management and governance capabilities that can evolve rapidly.
The Gartner Predicts 2012 special report addresses the continuing trend toward the reduction of control IT has over the forces that affect it. As users take more control of the devices they will use, business managers are taking more control of the budgets IT organizations have watched shift over the past few years. Moving forward, IT departments will find that they must coordinate activities in a much wider scope than they once controlled.
Gartner's view of competitive advantage is about leadership. How does a corporation best drive to gain a leadership position from the tools, capabilities and competencies at its disposal? Readers will not see in this collection of documents a statement saying: "You must do X to be competitive." Our focus is, and will continue to be: "You must do this to be the leader."
A successful cloud computing strategy often involves customizing services from one or more vendors. One way to do this is through an intermediary service provider: a Cloud Services Brokerage. A CSB can make it easier to consume and maintain cloud services, while reducing the cost and risk encountered when an enterprise tries to address these issues alone. This Special Report outlines the roles of CSBs and the key concepts of the CSB model.
Thousands of CIOs and IT Leaders around the globe attended the Keynote sessions at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011, learning what it means to re-imagine IT and leadership to drive business success.
There are many types of cloud computing, and each is progressing at a different rate. Software as a service (SaaS) refers to applications delivered as cloud services, and is in many ways the most mature of the cloud types. It is important that companies get in front or quickly catch up to the SaaS adoption curve.
In the face of volatility, IT professionals must create adaptive architectures: architectures that do not anticipate how things will change, but only that they will change. Solution creators and managers will need to be highly versatile and innovative in order to keep governance in place while allowing for contextual strategy and improvisation.
The iPad has created a transformational change in how people interact with computers. During the next five to 10 years, media tablets will instigate change in computing form-factors.
Most organizations fail at strategy execution. There's a giant leap between aspirational vision at the executive level and the reality of action at the operational level. Risk-adjusted value management enhances strategy execution.
The tablet market will grow from next to zero in 2009 to more than 320 million units sold in 2015. The way consumers will think about, and interact with computing devices has changed for good. This portion of Gartner's special research collection on tablets provides a glimpse of what consumers, enterprises and vendors can expect as this market continues to unfold.
Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report is an annual maturity assessment of more than 1,900 technologies and trends. Hype Cycles help organizations understand the landscape of technology maturity and markets, and to decide which technology innovations to adopt, postpone or ignore, and when is the time to adopt.
Every IT product and service has a finite useful life and must eventually be retired or replaced. When making these decisions, correct timing is critical. The Gartner IT Market Clock is a framework that can help IT and business leaders evaluate and prioritize IT investments.
Applications to support collaboration are a natural candidate for cloud deployment. This collection highlights research that examines vendor moves, market developments and best practices for cloud collaboration.
Leading companies need sustainable, resilient supply chains that can support and drive profitability and industry leadership in the face of growing complexity and risk. Supply chain executives and leaders can use the following collection of research to move closer toward their goal of supply chain excellence.
Security failures and data breaches – impacting some of the world's most high-profile enterprises – make headlines every day. At the same time, the worst economic downturn since the 1930s has focused intense attention on inadequate risk management practices. The key to addressing these complex, interlocking problems: a mature, capable security and risk management program.
The depth of the recent recession blindsided most businesses. But there is a way to see things coming – a framework for proactively seeking and acting on the early, "weak" signals that form patterns in the marketplace. Gartner's Pattern-Based Strategy can give you the ability to model the impact of these patterns on your organization, and identify the disciplines and technologies you need to respond effectively.
Are tablets ready to become target platforms for enterprise applications? Should sales retool its processes to facilitate their use? Should clients evaluate vendor offerings when considering what IT solutions meet their needs? In the second part of Gartner's special research collection on tablets, we look at the impact iPads and other tablets are having on various processes in the organization, such as sales and marketing.
Context-aware computing stands where search engines and the Web did in 1990 – a set of business and technical forces coming together without definitive rules. Here, we examine the opportunities and impact of context on organizational strategies.
Sustainability is growing in significance — attracting marketing attention, investment and innovation, and technology development. Mitigating the risks and exploiting the opportunities that sustainability offers requires a fundamentally more radical and strategic transformation that must start now. This special report provides insights on Gartner's comprehensive, ongoing treatment of this topic.
This report contains recent Gartner research on IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management, with advice on how IT professionals can prepare their enterprises for the worst. By developing and continually refining such procedures, enterprises are more likely to survive in the event of the unthinkable happening.
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