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Enterprise Software: Collaboration and Social Network Software Segments are Fastest Growth Segments

By Dick Weisinger

The global software market grew 5.5 percent to reach $179 billion in the first half of 2013, reported IDC. Segments of the software market that showed the strongest growth were big data and analytics, content applications, and system software. While…

Enterprise Software: IT Trends for 2014: Nexus of Forces, Migrations from On-Premise to Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The combination of Social, Mobile, Analytics, and the cloud are creating an intertwined set of new technologies that Gartner is calling the “Nexus of Forces.” Tom Eid, Research Vice President at Gartner, said that “starting in 2014, enterprise software markets will…

High Performance Computing: Companies use Big Computers to Process Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Supercomputers — computers with pricetags of more than $500,000 — are being deployed at a healthy pace. Businesses are investing in these fast computers in an effort to spark innovation. A recent report by IDC in high performance computing (HPC)…

Enterprise Software: Aggressive Competition Pushing Enterprise Software Prices Down

By Dick Weisinger

Price competition has driven prices of enterprise hardware and software down by as much as 11 percent since 2012, and prices are down 17 percent since the end of 2011, Synergy Research Group found. Jeremy Duke, President of Synergy Research…

Next Generation Databases: Real-Time Scale-Out Relational Processing

By Dick Weisinger

As databases grow, the most common way to stay pace with more data, more transactions, and more load is to scale-up the database hardware. Scaling up involves adding more CPU power, more memory and more and faster disks. But as…