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Report:Four Giants Compete For Your Cloud Email Business

Microsoft And Google Lead; IBM's In The Hunt; Cisco's Just Starting Out

Google jumped into the enterprise email market in 2007 with a $50 annual subscription to its cloud email service and turned the market upside down. Microsoft quickly re-evaluated and repriced its...

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Report:Improve Productivity With The Cloud

Business Impact: The Cloud Computing Playbook

When a market disruption as large as cloud computing comes along, it sends ripples throughout your organization, so it should come as no surprise that attitudes toward this technology vary widely...

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Report:Cloud Computing Market Dynamics In MEA: Egypt

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Egypt for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...

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Report:Cloud Brokers Become Change Agents

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity

The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

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Report:Asian Urbanization Creates Opportunities For ICT Suppliers

With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...

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Report:Drive Savings And Profits With Cloud Economics

Business Plan: The Cloud Computing Playbook

We all believe that cloud computing can save us money but aren't sure how to maximize these savings. Firms almost always consider cloud computing a cost advantage compared to the in-house, always-on...

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Report:New Dynamics Shape IT Services Spending

Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months

The IT services industry is in the middle of a fundamental transformation of who it sells to, what services it sells, and how it delivers those services. Upstart vendors specializing in new...

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Report:The Changing Cloud Agenda

Cloud Computing Shifts From Cost To Innovation

Cloud computing continues to grow at a tremendous speed. But as the market and the understanding of cloud computing grows, the drivers and deployment scenarios that framed the initial cloud agenda...

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Report:Achieve Cloud Economics For Operations And Services

Executive Overview: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Cloud computing has reached an inflection point for enterprises — a comprehensive strategy for its use is now required. Until now, most companies had adopted cloud services in an ad hoc...

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Report:Sizing The Cloud

Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing

Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...

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Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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Report:Not Business As Usual: ICT Opportunities In The Government Sector

The news about governments is often dire: Economic crises, austerity budgets, crises of constituent confidence, protests, riots, and war often make the headlines. However, in spite of (or perhaps...

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Report:Rightsource Your Applications For The Cloud

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Cloud Computing Playbook

CIOs frequently ask us which applications they should consider moving to the cloud or replace with cloud services. Forrester provides you with a methodology to answer this question and help you...

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Report:IT In The Healthcare Industry

This document provides a comprehensive background of the healthcare IT dynamics in India in order to enable IT solution providers to address market opportunities more successfully. Furthermore, the...

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Report:Industry Innovation: US Federal Government

Technology Trends That Will Change The Way Government Operates

The US government, with its almost $80 billion annual IT budget, is one of the largest consumers of IT goods and services in the world. It is therefore not surprising that the same technological...

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Report:Asia Pacific IT Market Predictions 2011

This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the Asia Pacific IT market in 2010 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2011. This document...

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Report:Welcome To The Empowered Era

An Empowered Report: Reinvent Yourself To Serve Empowered Customers And Employees

Your customers and your employees have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources. To succeed in an era...

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Report:Counterintuitive Collaboration Trends For 2011

An Empowered Report: Consumerization Leads The List Of Collaboration Disrupters

Some collaboration trends are clear and very important — cloud-based email, collaboration services on smart mobile devices, the expansion of social technology, and the rise of integrated...

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Report:Security And The Cloud

Looking At The Opportunity Beyond The Obstacle

Concerns about security are the most prominent reasons that organizations cite for not adopting cloud services. Therefore, creating more comprehensive security capabilities is a prerequisite for...

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Report:Navigating The Online Collaboration Suite Landscape

Moving collaboration workloads to the public cloud is an attractive proposition for content and collaboration professionals and information workers alike. Why? They're inexpensive to stand up and...

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Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

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Report:With Vast Government Cloud Opportunities In Asia Pacific, Vendors Need To Know Where To Look

The Shift To Government Cloud Is Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

Economic, technological, and behavioral changes are driving a fundamental transformation in how governments deliver services. Asia Pacific governments will leverage cloud computing to create more...

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Report:Telecom's Central Role In Cloud Computing

Cloud Represents An Opportunity, But Not A Salvation, For Telcos

Without a robust communications layer, the concept of cloud computing is a nonstarter. All three dominant flavors of cloud computing — infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service...

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Report:Prepare For The Connected Enterprise Now

Insights From The Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2012

The connected enterprise is becoming a reality. Businesses require access to the best market information regarding customer demand, supplier options, transport and logistics, and sales patterns. They...

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Report:The Evolution Of Cloud Computing Markets

Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...

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