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<description>Access Technology market research products provide analysis of the latest trends, developments and market data for this industry.  Research information will help you make informed business decisions.</description>
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<title>Japan Application Networking 2009-2013 Forecast and 2008 Analysis</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40482.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC study (which is a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J9030105) presents an analysis of the market trends and future outlook for the Japan Layer 4-7 switch and WAN application delivery solutions markets. In the WAN application delivery solutions market, user awareness continued to spur growth. However, the economic downturn in 2008 caused the Japan Layer 4-7 switch market to post negative growth for the first time since IDC first analyzed it in 2004. IDC believes that the average growth rate up to 2013 will remain positive despite the weak market sentiment until 2010.  "The future of the Layer 4-7 switch market lies in server environment virtualization. Layer 4-7 switches are slated to improve in line with the development of a common platform. However, as systems and applications and usage or resource management are currently being independently maintained, there is a need to explore how virtualization technology can promote ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Hosting Versus Cloud: Aren't They All The Same?</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40470.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC Insight is designed to help clarify IDC's taxonomy as it applies to the overall hosting-versus-cloud-services continuum. The framework can be used as a road map and reference for determining how these services are evolving and converging across the foundational markets as defined by the IDC taxonomy. Hosted services extend from traditional colocation and Web hosting services to hosted application and infrastructure management. In this document, we contrast hosted and cloud services at the infrastructure level. Benefits of this differentiation include:   A clearer delineation of the differences between the services, delivery methods, alternative sales models, and a host of other parameters that define these services  A definitional template for understanding a broadening spectrum of "cloud computing" services by traditional SPs and newer online players  Evidence of the seismic shift IDC predicts in the competitive landscape -- impacting providers, customers, and datacentre management -- towards the cloud services and the gray areas between ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Worldwide Carrier Ethernet 3Q09 Market Share Update</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40460.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC update reviews the 3Q09 worldwide Carrier Ethernet market. It contains the service provider portion of the Ethernet aggregation market, as well as a subset of the service provider edge router market where routers are used primarily for Ethernet business services, wholesale services, and residential broadband/video ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Home Office 2009 Profile Update: Economy's Impact on Home Business Formation and Technology Adoption</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40412.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC study examines the attitudes of home-based businesses toward the current state of the economy as well as home office acquisition and ownership of products and technologies including mobile phones and smartphones; desktop, notebook, and netbook PCs; printers and MFPs; and LANs and Internet access.  "Home office households in general and home-based businesses in particular continue to represent an important opportunity for IT vendors," says Justin Jaffe, senior research analyst in IDC's Home Office Market program. "Despite real concerns about the economy, these households continue to spend more on advanced technology than households in general, setting the pace for technology adoption in a variety of categories from smartphones to notebook PCs to local area ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Enterprise Survey of IP Usage and Preferences by Vertical, 2009</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40332.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC study looks at the requirements of enterprise telecommunications managers in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ region. It analyzes the usage preferences and adoption behaviors of enterprises across a range of industries. Some of the primary issues covered include current and future adoption behaviors, technologies, and SP selection criteria.  "The majority of enterprises are now becoming more concerned about pricing. The survey respondents cited cost as a key consideration when selecting a telecom SP and the services that they subscribe to. This trend is a result of diminished differentiation among connectivity services," says Kenneth Liew, senior market analyst, Communications Research, IDC ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Cloud Computing &amp; Communication Services for the Australian Mid and Large Enterprise Market</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R671-104.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[Hosted Telephony or IP Centrex was considered the next wave of leading edge communications services, earlier in the millennium, which never materialised in the MLE market in Australia. However, in recent times, Australian carriers and service providers have responded to prevailing market conditions, by offering Hosted Telephony/Unified Communication services, which encompasses feature-rich overlay. Cloud Computing has evolved from Mainframe Computing to also resurfaced as the leading edge alternative to current distributed and fragmented computing model.
  
As Australian businesses look to take full advantage of the Unified Communications (UC) and computing platform, the reduction of costs, increase in workforce productivity and business process improvements will be among the priorities for decision makers in 2009.
  
This Telsyte report looks at the re-emergence of the Cloud-based computing and communication services for the mid and large enterprise market: 

 The uptake, drivers and inhibitors to the uptake of Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service;The ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Harvesting the cloud: cloud computing in IT services</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R464-1550.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[This presentation includes Ovum's definition and concepts related to cloud computing services, customer views on cloud computing and cloud strategies and initiatives of major IT service providers.
   Please Note:  This product is delivered as a Power Point ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Worldwide WLAN 2Q09 Market Share Update: Market Stabilizes as Economic and 802.11n Fears Dissipate</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40213.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC update reviews 2Q09 end-user revenue in the wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure market (excluding WLAN NICs) and shows the quarter-over-quarter (q/q) and year-over-year (y/y) ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>BT's Sustainability Practice Facilitates Green IT Initiatives for Enterprise Customers</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40200.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC Insight highlights BT's initiatives in the green IT space and details its Sustainability Practice targeted at enterprise customers. It also presents results from IDC's 2009  WAN Manager Survey  that illustrate the importance of environmentally responsible telecommunications solutions on IT decision ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Worldwide Ethernet Switch 2Q09 Market Share Update</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40259.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC update reviews 2Q09 end-user revenue and shipments in the Ethernet switch market and shows the quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and year-over-year (YoY) changes. The information in this update stems from IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Networks Tracker service (final 2Q09 release, September 2009), which delivers a pivot table of end-user revenue, manufacturing revenue, and port shipments by vendor, layer, speed, form factor, power over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities, and average pricing seven weeks after the close of the calendar quarter. (For more information, contact your IDC ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Fiber vs. Copper Battle for the Cabling Systems Market</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R495-31.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[&ldquo;Fiber vs. Copper Battle for the Cabling Systems Market&rdquo; provides detailed product forecasts for both fiber cabling systems and copper cabling systems used in the structured cabling systems (SCS) market.  More than 140 forecast figures provide detailed forecasts by cabling applications, such as data centers, LANS, VOIP, etc.  Cross-industry analysis provides a unique perspective on the use of key products&rsquo; (Cat 6a, MM, OM fibers) usage, currently and for the future, in SCS.  Forecasts include year-by-year from 2008 (historical year) to 2014, a five-year time horizon.  New product and technology developments in the SCS market are described and analyzed.  Future technologies, such as cloud computing and holographic storage are described, including their future impact on the SCS market.
  
Both volume and value shipments are provided for the following products: 

 UTP Cables by Category 
 UTP Patch Panels 
 UTP Outlets 
 UTP Connectors 
 Fiber Cables by ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Japan Small and Medium Business Markets WAN Managed Service Deployment Trend and Vendor Strategy Analysis, 2008</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40109.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC study (which is a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J8300110) analyzes the results of the  Japan SMB User Survey  we have conducted in February 2008 on the use of managed network services among Japan small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The implementation rates of managed services tend to increase with the company size. More than 50% of large companies with 1,000 or more employees have implemented managed services. Meanwhile, only 20% of small companies with 1-99 employees and 35%-40% of medium-small companies with 100-499 employees have done so. Even for functions that are necessary regardless of the industry or size of the user company, such as "network security" or "email", the implementation rates of managed services differ widely between the various company size segments. There is a huge room for vendors to cultivate customers outside the large-enterprise segment.  "Amid the economic slowdown that is affecting business performance, SMBs are ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Market Segment Profile: Carrier Ethernet</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R464-1512.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[The carrier Ethernet application segment addresses a wide set of carrier needs that require capabilities available on products that fall within traditional switching and routing, wired and wireline access, and optical networking technology segments. Carrier Ethernet spending is growing solidly and will continue to do so through 2014, driven by the growth in bandwidth requirements in the metro that comes with triple-play and 3G/4G wireless builds, the rollout of E-Line and E-LAN Ethernet services, and the associated need for both highly scalable and low latency solutions. In this report, Ovum investigates network trends, applications, and competition in the carrier Ethernet application segment.

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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Western European Ethernet Switch Competitive Analysis, 1H09: Downturn Suppresses Demand for Switches, Cuts Revenue by 22%</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40294.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC study discusses the Western European Ethernet switching market and vendor market shares for 1H09 and compares them with 2H08 and 1H08. The Ethernet switch market is analyzed by technology for fast Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet, and 10GbE; by OSI layer for Layers 2, 3, and 4-7; by form factor for modular and non-modular; and unmanaged Ethernet switch port shipments and revenue.  A geographical breakdown is included for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.  "In 1H09, the Western European Ethernet switch market's revenue declined by 22% and shipments by 19% compared with 2H08. This decline is related to the current economic instability and the resulting IT budget reductions and project postponements by enterprises. We continue to believe that the Ethernet switch market will recover after the economic downturn as it will be necessary to upgrade networks, make them ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>1H09 M&amp;A Overview: Cloud Computing</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-40037.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC study provides an overview of M&amp;A deals in the cloud computing industry in the first half of 2009 and the different business, financial, and technology trends affecting M&amp;A activities. It also analyzes industry and market dynamics driving current and future acquisitions in the different cloud computing markets.  "Cloud computing is more than just buzz. It is here to stay and is expected to take increasing shares of total IT spending worldwide. From a VC perspective, the even better news is that cloud computing is still far from maturity. There are many technology gaps that are not yet filled, especially in the areas of cloud enablement, management, monitoring, and security. In particular, VCs can find investment opportunities in start-up companies that develop solutions for hybrid cloud, which is expected to experience increased demand over the coming years." &mdash; Dan Yachin, research director, IDC EMEA Emerging ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Home Network Technology &amp; Connectivity Use: Ethernet, 802.11, Coax, and Powerline</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R97-3402.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[Based upon the results of our North American broadband survey, the majority of consumers with a home network that use Wi-Fi are still not very/not at all familiar with the benefits and differences between 802.11g and 802.11n.  Although this may limit upgrades in the short term, the older Wi-Fi standards will be discontinued eventually anyway.  Other wired technologies that use coax, phone wiring, and powerline are also beginning to make strides with telcos deploying telco TV services.   

The number of home LAN physical layer interface shipments will surpass 500 million in 2010, and the installed base of home networks will surpass 300 million in 2011.   

Global and regional forecasts are provided for home networks, with North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific broken down by use of Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, and other wired solutions.  In addition, global home network interfaces by ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Cloud Computing: An Assessment</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R3730-1.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[This report is a comprehensive international study around cloud computing. By drawing upon research and interviews with IT executives and users, it looks at what IT buyers and users need from cloud services and suppliers, what suppliers need to know about users and the emerging market, and the future trajectories of cloud computing from 2011 through to 2020.    Topics discussed in this report  
 Benefits and drawbacks of Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, servers, storage, and business processes through the cloud 
 Public, private and hybrid clouds 
 When to move what to which cloud services, and how 
 Vertical markets, SMEs, large enterprises and cloud services 
 Service level agreements 
 Costs 
 Security 
 Reliability 
 Vendor lock-in 
 International law and regulation 
 Standards and transparency 
 What IT execs give importance to when thinking about the cloud 
 Importance IT execs give to attributes of cloud services 
 Challenges IT execs believe face cloud computing 
 Which cloud services to invest ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Definitive Guide to Personal Area Networks</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R331-163.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[This report provides the reader with everything needed to understand PAN technology, solutions and market opportunities. The report analyzes technical options, standards, commercial applications, trends and the future of PAN. It also evaluates PAN vendors and products. The report also addresses more advanced topics such as security and quality of service (QoS).  The reader will able to better understand details about the Growth of PAN, its standards and the applications in various spheres. This report also focuses on the bottlenecks and technological immaturity providing examples starting from general applications to strategic and homeland security application.   

 

The report thoroughly examines the milestones reached by PAN applications and analysis of the early adopters of the technology. The later part of the report is mainly focused at the roadmap of PAN and things to come in the near future. A timeline based analysis is provided in a ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SMEs in the UK: attracted to managed services</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R464-1524.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[UK SMEs are aware of the benefits that new technology brings to their business. They are attracted by predictable monthly charging models and are good targets for bundled, managed and hosted services. There is clearly an opportunity for service providers offering managed services, with a significant number of SMEs interested in adopting new solutions as a managed service package. 
  
This report presents the results of our survey of SMEs in the UK, outlining their budget priorities and attitudes to telecoms sourcing and usage. 

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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Tibco Silver cloud computing platform: a work in progress</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R464-1473.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[While Tibco needs to more clearly define Tibco Silver's attributes and build a clearer business case behind the product, it is early days for Tibco Silver(and for cloud computing itself), and Tibco has time to get it right.

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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Digital Media Infrastructure (Market Advisor)</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R759-14185.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[The overall digital media infrastructure market is evolving rapidly and poised for significant growth into the foreseeable future, but various operator implementation and integration challenges remain in the present and near-term. This report contains a market overview, analyst review, near and long term drivers, and ratings for all competitors within the Digital Media Infrastructure ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Enterprise Strategy Review: Verizon Business closes in on leaders</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R464-1479.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[Verizon Business has established itself as one of the big four global service providers. It is increasingly challenging the other global leaders in key verticals and managed service areas.

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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Think Local, Go Global - Organizations Sound Out Their Preferences for Their Managed Services Partners</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-39935.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC Update discusses and highlights some major trends and issues in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ, ICT outsourcing and managed services market. The information in this update stems from the IDC  Managed Services Survey, ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Worldwide Ethernet Switch and Router 2Q09 Investor Update</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-39857.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC update reviews 2Q09 manufacturing revenue and shipments in the Ethernet switch and router markets and shows the quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and year-over-year (YoY) ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Worldwide Carrier Ethernet 2Q09 Market Share Update</title>
<link>http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-39852.html</link>
<description> <![CDATA[ This IDC update reviews the 2Q09 worldwide Carrier Ethernet market. It contains the service provider portion of the Ethernet aggregation market, as well as a subset of the service provider edge router market where routers are used primarily for Ethernet business services, wholesale services, and residential broadband/video ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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