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  Wall Street Beat: Earnings highlight smartphones as key to growth

  With Apple reporting a decline in profit margins and Samsung consolidating its leadership in the mobile device market, earnings results and market research reports this week point to the ever-increasing importance of smartphones as key to growth in tech.

  By Marc Ferranti | 26 April, 2013 21:02

  Tags: amazon, business issues, smartphones, software, financial results, Apple, forrester, samsung, consumer electronics, alcatel-lucent, IDC

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  Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks hold their own as markets surge

  With U.S. markets rallying and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting record highs, analysts and industry insiders are expressing a sense of sober confidence, if not exuberance, about the tech sector's prospects for the year.

  By Marc Ferranti | 07 March, 2013 21:56

  Tags: business issues, Google, IBM, Microsoft, cisco, financial results, Hewlett-Packard, Facebook, Apple, forrester

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  Forrester survey tries to pinpoint hardest-working CISOs across the world

  Do chief information security officers (CISOs) in North America work harder than their security counterparts in Europe?

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 January, 2013 19:56

  Tags: applications, Networking, european union, CISOs, infrastructure management, software, Forrester Research, IT security budget, data protection, management, forrester, fraud detection, security

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  Wall Street Beat: 2013 IT spending forecasts look upbeat

  As the economy improves and at least some of the concerns about the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" are resolved, desire for new mobile, analytics and storage technology will drive IT spending this year, according to market researchers and economists.

  By Marc Ferranti | 04 January, 2013 21:43

  Tags: business issues, forrester, Gartner, IDC, Computer Economics, financial results

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  Forrester to CIOs: End the Mac prohibition

  Forrester analyst David Johnson likes to compare Macs in the enterprise with the heady days of the Prohibition Act of 1920, the great thirst, stealthy bootlegging, and the rise of the speakeasy bar.

  By Tom Kaneshige | 28 October, 2011 07:45

  Tags: Mac, hardware, Apple, forrester, hardware systems, enterprise, Hardware | Laptop, laptops, CIO

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  Harness disruption or become obsolete: Forrester

  Five years ago, Nokia dominated the smartphone market. How quickly things change. But before you sit back and think, ‘that won’t happen to me’, take a look at the competitive environment in which your company operates. Daunting, isn’t it?

  By Georgina Swan | 05 April, 2011 18:03

  Tags: leadership, forrester, Mark Mulligan, innovation, change management, disruption

• 5 virtual desktop pitfalls

  Most CIOs have started considering virtual desktop infrastructure and other types of desktop virtualization, but only a minority has reached the deployment stage. (See related story, "As Windows 7 gains steam, VDI set to rise".) Virtual desktops can potentially provide more flexibility for users, make it easier to apply patches and reduce IT help desk calls, but there are still numerous problems that keep desktop pros up at night. Here are five pitfalls to watch out for.

  By Jon Brodkin | 03 April, 2010 06:49

  Tags: Gartner, VMware, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), burton group, san, forrester, Microsoft

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