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IDC eBusiness Strategies
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- Government Domain Name System Security — Installing the DNS Security Extensions Is Only Step One
This Government Insights Perspective examines the challenge of Domain Name System (DNS) security for government agencies. - Alerts.com Private Vendor Watchlist Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Alerts.com, a company playing in the online advertising market, and reviews its key success factors: market potential, technology/solution, corporate strategy, force multipliers, and customers. Leveraging IDC's expert understanding of the competitive landscape and future outlook, this document highlights company and market information tailored to the investment professional's needs. - Economic Crisis Response: U.S. Internet Advertising 2008–2012 Forecast Update
This IDC Forecast Update updates IDC's U.S. Internet advertising forecast for 2008–2012, based on the latest data on GDP growth (both past and forecast) and ad spending across all media. IDC clients are requested to contact Caroline Dangson at cdangson@idc.com for a complimentary XLS spreadsheet containing the table data of this Forecast Update. - U.S. Internet Advertising Quarterly Wrap-Up 3Q08: Solid Growth Despite Recession
This IDC update reports the total volume and the growth rate of U.S. Internet advertising spending for 3Q08; the quarterly domestic ad sales, growth rates, and market shares for the top U.S. new media companies; and the spending on major ad formats and their growth rates and market shares. IDC clients: Please contact Caroline Dangson at cdangson@idc.com for a complimentary XLS spreadsheet containing the table data in this document. - IDC's Channel Panel: 3Q08 Update
This IDC update provides a look at some of the key findings from IDC's Channel Panel. The data referenced in this update was collected between August 21 and September 18, 2008. Highlights include: Storage Hardware: Dell Leads Segment, Hitachi and NetApp See Poor Results Storage Software: NetApp and IBM on Top, CA and Symantec Struggle Security: Segment Comparatively Strong, Cisco and Juniper Tumble Quarter over Quarter Servers: All Vendors Down in 3Q08, Especially Sun Networking: ProCurve Strong Again, Cisco Flat, Juniper Down Voice: Strongest Segment, Cisco Leads PCs: Apple Again on Top, Toshiba Weak Hardcopy: Segment Soft, Xerox Very Weak - Social Network Users Less Receptive To Advertising, IDC Survey finds
According to a new study from IDC, consumers are also spending ever-greater amounts of time on SNS, a fact that has advertisers drooling over the opportunity represented by SNS. - U.S. Consumer Online Attitudes Survey Results, Part III: Social Networking
This IDC study reports on the results of IDC's latest consumer survey with regard to social networking services (SNS): What is today's SNS audience reach compared with mainstream services such as Google and Yahoo!? What is the demographic of their users (i.e., who do advertisers reach on SNS, how well do consumers tolerate advertising on SNS compared with online advertising in general, and how effective is advertising on SNS). More than half of U.S. consumers with Internet access use social networking services, such as Facebook and MySpace, and penetration is expected to continue to grow. "Major social networking services such as MySpace or Facebook reach a lot of consumers by now, and they don't reach only teenagers anymore. But our research also shows that social networks face problems when it comes to ad effectiveness," said Karsten Weide, IDC's program director, Digital Media and Entertainment. - eCommerce in Government: Virginia Proves Enterprise Value with Centralized Procurement System
This Government Insights report looks at the evolution and development of a government eprocurement project — launched by the Commonwealth of Virginia and its vendor partner CGI — that successfully integrated multiple government agency procurement systems and created a common enterprise transactional and reporting system. "Governments are striving to use information technology effectively to drive down costs and improve service delivery," according to Thom Rubel, Government Insights' government programs director. "Innovation and collaborative partnering are key to achieving these mutual goals." - EMC's Atmos: Making Rain in the Cloud
This IDC Flash assesses EMC's newly introduced Atmos storage solution, designed to address the requirements of companies building private and/or public cloud computing environments. It also discusses the major challenges that traditional IT systems suppliers will face as they target this emerging market sector. - Storage in the Cloud: What, How, and Who?
This IDC Presentation focuses on how IT vendors of all stripes are talking about the new opportunity in cloud computing and cloud storage. Some are focused specifically on delivering solutions such as storage as a service, but the use of cloud-based storage is much broader. This presentation was given at Storage Networking World in Dallas, Texas, on October 15, 2008. It defines and forecasts cloud-based storage and puts it in the broader context of cloud computing. IDC also highlights the business requirements that will drive the adoption of cloud-based storage and examines the industries and companies that will build and use cloud-based storage.