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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007.

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Enter Gartner. Gartner also says that SaaS is a kind of Cloud computing, but it has its own definition: SaaS is an application owned, delivered and managed remotely.

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Now Is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT

NTEN

Flickr photo: pasukaru76 "Now is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT" That was the subject line of an email I received from Gartner recently. If you're the person responsible for technology at your organization, you have a responsibility you may not even have realized was yours.

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IT Budget Cuts: How to Do it Right

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. That was the theme of a webinar I attended with the folks from Gartner called "Emergency IT Cost Cutting." IT is not a cost center.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My FLickr Stream. Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again. Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again.