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Blog:Apple’s iCloud Takes The Lead In Pursuit Of The $12 Billion Personal Cloud Opportunity

Apple’s announcement of iCloud today coincides with the publishing of a major Forrester report for vendor strategists, “The Personal Cloud: Transforming Personal Computing, Mobile, And...

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Blog:Smartphone OSes In Three-Way Tie Among Global Information Workers

My blog post Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise: 1/5 Of Global Info Workers Use Apple Products For Work! got lots of visibility because of how hot Apple is right now, but our data is much broader than...

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Blog:The Consumerization Conundrum: Why Virtual Machines Won't Work On Mobile Devices

In Forrester’s Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2011, we learned that 60% of information workers use their devices for work and personal tasks. This dual use of PCs, smartphones, and...

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Blog:HP Synergy, Not WebOS, Is What Will Differentiate HP

 Today, I attended the HP webOS event at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. My colleague Sarah Rotman Epps is writing about the TouchPad, but I’m more interested in where HP takes webOS...

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Report:The Coming Integration Of Personal Cloud Services And Enterprise Apps

How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications

Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

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Blog:Upcoming Forrester Webinar — Windows: The Next Five Years

Microsoft Windows will power just one-third of personal computing devices sold during 2012. Say what? Over the past five years, the transition to mobile devices has transformed Microsoft’s...

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Report:Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure Markets

Cloud Services, New Technologies, And The Rise Of Informal Computing Buyers

Important trends are surfacing in computing infrastructure markets that will cause vendor strategists to take a fresh look at new buyer behavior, shifts in business models, and adoption of emerging...

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Report:Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise And Reshapes The Markets For Personal Devices At Work

More Than 21% Of Information Workers Use Apple Products For Work

Apple's products are much more visible in business environments than they used to be. To quantify Apple's business presence, Forrester surveyed almost 10,000 information workers — workers that...

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Report:Info Workers Using Mobile And Personal Devices For Work Will Transform Personal Tech Markets

Many Workers Use Multiple Devices And Spend Their Own Money For Work Tech

The rise of mobile devices and broadband Internet access at home are driving new behaviors by information workers. Our surveys of almost 10,000 global information workers and 2,300 IT hardware...

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Report:Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies

The Info Worker Population Will Grow From 555 Million To 865 Million By 2016, With Growth Markets Leading The Way

Employees that use Internet-connected computing devices for work — info workers — will trample the boundary between work and personal spheres. In this report, we summarize how it came to...

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Blog:Amazon’s Cloud Drive Is The First Step To Being A Personal Cloud Ecosystem Player

Today, Amazon announced the Amazon Cloud Drive. I think it is the first salvo in a series of steps that will lead Amazon to compete directly for the primary computing platform for individuals, as an...

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Report:The Personal Cloud: Transforming Personal Computing, Mobile, And Web Markets

An Empowered Report: Sizing The Opportunity As Individuals Embrace New Services For Managing Their Work And Personal Digital Lives

The personal computing experience for individuals is broken, ruptured by the fragmentation of personal information across PCs and mobile devices and the scattering of content across a multitude of...

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Report:Computing Futures 2016: How Hardware Advances Will Shift Vendor Prospects

CPUs, Disks, Sensors, And Displays Change Dramatically In The Next Five Years

Hardware innovation will continue to roil the tech ecosystem through 2016, forcing vendor strategists at software and services firms to adjust continuously to new hardware capabilities, plus the new...

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Blog:What Questions To Ask The Personal Cloud Panel At Forrester's IT Forum

I’m excited to be returning to the ideas of the Personal Cloud report that I published last July. In that report, I described how computing by individuals will shift from being device-centric,...

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Report:The Age Of Computing Diversity

The ICT Industry Is Broadening Out From The Wintel Monoculture

The computing industry is exiting an era built mostly on general-purpose, good enough central processing units (CPUs), servers, systems designs, software, Web apps, and client devices. These...

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Blog:Why Tablets Will Become Our Primary Computing Device

Tablets aren’t the most powerful computing gadgets. But they are the most convenient. They’re bigger than the tiny screen of a smartphone, even the big ones sporting nearly 5-inch...

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Report:Windows: The Next Five Years

As Mobile Device Sales Surpass PCs, CIOs Will Need To Corral A Troika Of OS Leaders

The launch of Windows 8 is a major pivot point for Microsoft — and for IT leaders and the individuals they support. The new Windows 8 user experience (UX) and programming model will transform...

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Blog:Apple Advances Personal Cloud, Continues A "Think Different" Enterprise Strategy

With today’s iPad and Apple TV announcements, Apple continues to advance on two topics that I’ve been researching: personal cloud and Apple’s enterprise strategy. Apple...

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Blog:To HP’s New CEO: Keep PCs And Focus On Consumerization Of IT To Best Serve The Enterprise Customer

Picture the scene in the HP boardroom when the board members decide the company needs (another) new CEO. They had trouble just last fall finding outside candidates and don’t seem satisfied with...

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Blog:Solving The Duplicate Address Book Problem Is One Of The Drivers For Development Of Personal Cloud

At yesterday’s HP Summit 2011, CEO Leo Apotheker made a public case for personal cloud — online services that work together to orchestrate and deliver work and personal information across...

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Blog:Employees Use Multiple Gadgets For Work — And Choose Much Of The Tech Themselves

Employees that use smart devices — PCs or mobile devices — for work have expanded their use of technology more than most people realize. How many devices do you think a typical...

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Blog:Informal Buyers Of IaaS Cloud Computing Are Driving The Market, Not Formal IT Buyers – Vendor Strategists Need Two Strategies

Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a hot market. Amazon Web Services, now five years old, drives a lot of attention and customer volume, but the vendor strategists at enterprise-facing...

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Blog:The Strategy Of Consumerization Was One Factor In HP's Decision To Keep PSG

HP made the right decision today to keep the Personal Systems Group. Beyond the reasons cited, supply chain and sales synergy and expense of spinning out, it's also crucial for HP to remain in...

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Report:The Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: Now Through 2018

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

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Blog:The Consumerization Of IT Proceeds Unevenly, From Growth In Tablets To Anemic BYOPC Adoption

Tablets are a red hot topic since the launch of Apple’s iPad more than a year ago. Tablets are the most visible aspect of a broader topic on the minds of vendor strategists – the...