Software as a service offers many advantages over traditional software delivery models, and is expected to become the default solution for businesses. When TechRepublic Premium last looked at SaaS, in 2013, it was in fast growth mode, but that has flattened out a bit. In this report, we take a look at some of the ...
Responses to a 2016 TechRepublic Premium survey indicate that AI and machine learning will be a significant area of development for IT in the next few years. Forty-two percent of respondents, most of whom were in tech leadership positions, said their company lacks the skills necessary to implement and support AI and machine learning. Almost ...
Enterprise software can perform a wide range of tasks from financial tracking and calculations to big data assessment, conducting staff-related operations, performing messaging functions and more. It could accurately be described as the glue which holds a business together. It continues to evolve, but as consumer software gets more intuitive, helpful and fun, enterprise software ...
Cloud technology has become firmly established among companies of all sizes, and in virtually even industry, and in every geographical region. There’s now a broad acceptance of both public and private clouds as complement, or even replacements, to on premises IT. Companies are looking for ways to adopt a hybrid cloud approach and which vendors ...
Big data and the Internet of Things, which is popularly known as IoT, are two rapidly growing technological forces which have often blended together amidst new advances and possibilities. The broad expanse of categories that apply to both concepts can make definitions difficult to pin down, but in a nutshell, big data is a collection ...
Advances have been made over the past two decades to bring to the public an entirely new kind of standard: 3D printing. 3D printing is a technology whereby objects can be designed using software and then created using a layering technique that harnesses processes such as fused deposition modeling (FDM) and fused filament fabrication (FFF). ...
The results of TechRepublic Premium’s May 2014 survey on the hybrid cloud are the focus of this research report, Hybrid Cloud: Benefits, roadblocks, favored vendors. The hybrid cloud combines the best features from on and off-premise cloud solutions, and the tools can be used for managing, provisioning and monitoring both systems. For many, hybrid clouds ...
Enterprise application software (EAS), is a somewhat complex and ethereal term. It has varied meaning depending on who you ask, and applies to a broad range of technologies including business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM), financial and accounting applications, and more. There are many household names among the established EAS vendors, but there are also ...
The microserver has become an option for companies today for computing needs, for certain use cases. Chosen wisely, this new arrival on the server form factor spectrum can solve an immediate need for companies. Reduced cost, lower space and power requirements are among the options that entice companies to this form factor for server class ...
Storage systems are at the core of any datacenter: Small, medium, large, cloud or not. Storage systems can enable success for companies and their technology priorities when aligned to the business priorities. Done poorly, storage systems can also cripple datacenter priorities and put companies at risk of not achieving their goals. TechRepublic Premium conducted an ...
Find out about the relevance of the modern-day CIO in this new TechRepublic Premium report, with 296 participants sharing opinions on the role of the CIO within their organizations. TechRepublic Premium conducted the online survey in September 2013 to find out whether the key decision maker for IT strategies is still the CIO, or whether ...
Big Data is a term that resounds across various business realms involving diverse organizational aspects such as finance, marketing and information technology. TechRepublic Premium conducted a survey in August to examine Big Data trends in the enterprise. Our goals included determining where investments were being allocated, how these endeavors were paying off and whether the ...
A May 2013 survey of SMBs focused on the current status and future adoption plans of transformative technologies. Find out what IT leaders say about SMB technology in our Research: SMBs discuss current status and future adoption plans of new technologies report.Technologies highlighted include: Big Data Mobile computing Flash storage Virtualization Social media Cloud Blade ...
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