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Tool:Forecast: US Individuals With Two Or More PCs Or Smartphones Forecast, 2008 to 2016

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Client Inquiry:Finding The Opportunity And Market Potential For Cloud Storage Services

Cloud storage services might be an add-on option for clients. How do you assess the opportunities and market potentials of cloud storage services? How do you assess the overall opportunity of these...

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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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Tool:New Behaviors, Engagement Models, And Technologies Disrupt $1.35 Trillion B2B Spend

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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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Blog:Vacation Reflections On Personal Cloud Possibilities

I'm on vacation this week, traveling with a small group of my extended family out on the Dingle peninsula of Ireland. I'm mostly focused on vacation, but have done a little checking in on...

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Tool:Forty-One Percent Of US Information Workers Now Use Personal Cloud Services At Work

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Blog:Do info workers prefer iPads or Windows 8 tablets? Let's ask them! And other interesting questions...

For our Forrsights Workforce survey, Forrester annually surveys information workers.* I’m leading final preparation of our Forrsights Workforce survey focused on end user hardware and aimed at...

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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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Tool:Forecast: US Personal Cloud Subscribers, 2010 to 2016

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Tool:PC Decision-Makers Expect Many More Web Apps And Continued Native App Growth

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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:Ideas On How Mobile + PC Collaboration Tech Will Evolve - Will We See Any Advance This Week?

I’m attending Apple’s special event tomorrow and Microsoft’s Windows launch on Thursday in NYC, though I won’t be at the Google and Microsoft events early next week. I’m...

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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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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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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: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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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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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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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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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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Blog:Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise: 1/5 Of Global Info Workers Use Apple Products For Work!

Have you noticed an increased presence of Apple products in public spaces and workspaces in the last few years? Turns out that 21% of information workers are using one or more Apple products for...

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Report:Consumerization Will Erase Boundaries Between Corporate And Consumer Technology Markets

Vendor Strategists Must Overhaul Business Units And Products Aimed At Information Workers

Execs plotting new information and communications technology (ICT) products and services face changing information worker behaviors driven by five innovations that empower users to provision and use...

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Tool:Overall, Twenty-Eight Percent Of All US Online Adults Now Use Personal Cloud Services

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Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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