Tag: GARTNER

It's all the rage at the moment: drop your cumbersome, expensive and high-maintenance physical servers and get some virtual servers! Basically, instead of managing an entire physical server -- hard disk, processors, power, etc. -- you can now buy a share of a large server. They're called VPS or VDS -- virtual private/dedicated servers -- and it turns out the majority of these new servers are not ...

With the advent of powerful Internet-enabled mobile phones, it's no secret that mobile browsers are accounting for a larger share of web traffic all the time. In fact, one firm says that the growth of mobile browsers is so rapid, they'll soon overtake traditional desktop browsers. Research and analysis specialists Gartner, Inc. are predicting that "by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the ...

We knew it was going to be big, but I don't think anyone thought for a moment that Apple's market share would be 99.4% of the three billion total app sales. Gartner's market research results from 2009 are in and, as Ars Technica reports, the figures are utterly astronomical. Not only were there two and a half billion app sales in 2009 (up from 500 million in the second half of 2008), but the ...

Another significant delay for Windows Vista would drop it firmly into the vaporware category right next to Duke Nukem Forever, but that's what analysts are saying is about to happen. Research firm Gartner Inc. says that Vista's release date will slip by at least three more months, making a consumer release fall in Q2 '07, between April and June. Microsoft disagrees, however, saying that it's still ...