Market Trends
Following a top 10 trend of the year 2010 in the
United States, 2Networkit.com falls directly as
the solution to keep a business successful
during the economic downfall wehave
seen here in Canada. Here are a few
trends from
Gartner.com:
Cut IT costs:
1.
Negotiate better prices from vendors
2.
Use
server, storage or desktop
virtualisation
3.
Standardize technologies, vendors
4.
Consolidate data centers, servers,
storage
5.
Purchase IT products as part of a group
Ubiquitous smart
phones in the hands of time pressured
customers are too big and opportunity to
ignore:
1.
72% of IT executive said Mobile
commerce will account for 25% or more of
all retail sales in the U.S.
2.
60% of IT executive said more
than 25% of all banks transactions in
the U.S. will be made over mobile
devices.
Virtualization
becomes a foundation technology:
69% of correspondents say in
the next five years it is likely their
company will reduce servers/storage devices
by 50% or more due to virtualization and
data reduplication.
Until companies
learn to do more with less data, there’s no
end in site to the demand for storage:
91% of responders say it is
likely the amount of data their company stores
will more than double annually by 2013. |
