Featured Research

What The Financial Crisis Means To The Tech Market

The Expected Slowdown Arrives In Spades, With Greater Risks Of It Getting Worse

by Andy Bartels

In our September 24, 2008, review of the US IT market — as of the third quarter of 2008 — we predicted a distinct slowdown in growth for US business and government purchases of technology goods and services due to an assumed recession starting in the third quarter. Since then, an acute financial crisis has hit not only the US but also countries in Europe and Asia. Stock markets have fallen at a pace not seen since the 1929 stock market crash, short-term credit has dried up, Iceland has effectively been bankrupted, and bank failures have hit both the US and Europe — with ripple effects in other markets. Yet, we are still sticking to our forecast of a sharp slowdown in growth for US tech purchases with no downturn. Why?

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Featured Teleconference

How Vendor Strategists Should Segment And Plan For Cloud Computing

Date: August 13, 2008

Presented by: Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst

Agenda:

• Nebulous new trends cloud the market for IT products and services.
• Cloud services have six characteristics and segment into five markets.
• Cloud services are built for two types of buyers: end users and service providers.
• IT vendor strategists need new approaches to win cloud service providers.