Tag: virtualisation

Jan 21 2010

20% of firms will own no IT assets by 2012

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
21 January 2010

A fifth of enterprises will hold no IT assets by 2012 as cloud computing and mobile working practices become commonplace, Gartner predicts (reports Information Age). Technologies such as ‘cloud computing’ and virtualisation within the enterprise will result in a fifth of businesses owning no IT assets whatsoever by 2012, says Gartner research, with more and …

AEC, architecture, BIM, CAD, cloud computing, collaboration, Construction, Engineering, enterprise IT, Gartner, Information Age, laptops, mobile working, SaaS, smartphones, Software-as-a-Service, Taylor Woodrow, virtualisation
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Dec 18 2008

Recession effects

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Sustainability
18 December 2008

The different headlines about the same National Computing Centre study (see press release) all suggest the current economic downturn is having some impacts on IT investment decisions, affecting the balance between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and conventional internally-hosted applications: Recession to strengthen SaaS appeal (Computer Business Review Online) Downturn spells stay of execution for legacy IT (ZDnet) …