IT Services and Applications

According to Cisco, the number of mobile-connected devices per capita will reach 1.5 units by 2020. There will be 11.6 billion mobile-connected devices by 2020 globally, including M2M modules—exceeding the world's projected population at that time (7.8 billion). As a result, the need to be strongly identified when accessing cloud-based platforms ...

The growth dynamics of the South African smart card market are complex, affected by varying trends across technologies and industries. The markets for SIM, banking, and payment cards are also heavily impacted by emerging technological trends such as near-field communication (NFC) technologies, long term evolution (LTE), cloud-based services, and mo...

On 5 and 6 November, T-Systems held its most recent Analyst & Sourcing Advisor Summit in Berlin. The event took place as T-Systems, the IT services and enterprise customer division of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG), is coming into the home stretch of a major restructuring.

While many cities claim to be in the process of becoming smart cities, most of their initiatives center on green concepts only. The goal of a smart city is to solve major problems through modern management and greater interaction between citizens and institutions to achieve a better quality of life. Frost & Sullivan has identified 8 parameters that...

eCommerce service providers act as integrators and platforms that enable and execute parts of the eCommerce value chain. Starting from Web shop design and including development, hosting, warehousing, delivery, and call centres, eCommerce service providers can free online store owners from many of the chores associated with running their businesses.

The essential question for enterprises considering cloud solutions has changed over the past three years from 'should we migrate to cloud?' to 'what and when should we migrate?’ Frost & Sullivan's surveys of senior IT management show that adoption accelerated in 2014.

Frost & Sullivan forecasts high growth for the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market between 2015 and 2019, predicting that total IaaS revenues will overtake traditional data centre services, such as managed hosting and retail colocation services, in the next 5 to 6 years.

17 Apr 2015  |  Europe  |  Market Research

Analysis of the European Platform-as-a-service Market

The Need for Efficient Application Delivery Will Influence PaaS Growth

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Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offers cost and operational efficiency for enterprises and developers by providing templates and app development tools on a utility basis, thus enabling easy and innovative application development and delivery. Increased enterprise engagement at the application level, spurred on by the growth of the mobile industry, is ...

15 Apr 2015  |  Europe  |  Market Research

Analysis of the European Infrastructure-as-a-Service Market

Sustained Enterprise Cloud Migration Will Spur Double-digit Growth

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Increased enterprise migration from on-premise IT services to hosted cloud services is expected to contribute to double-digit growth rates for the European Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market. The market is constantly evolving, with providers updating their service portfolio to align with internal long-term cloud strategies and to gain a comp...