Stories about: Aberdeen Group

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Get real business results from social media 27 November, 2009 15:46

Can you tell which of the following tweets is from a small but rapidly growing company?
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Secrets of the best enterprise Wi-Fi networks revealed 13 August, 2009 08:14

A just released Aberdeen Group research report identifies the steps taken by best-in-class enterprise IT groups to create secure, pervasive, manageable, reliable, high-performance Wi-Fi networks.
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Thin clients now as flexible as PCs, claims Igel 30 January, 2009 06:33

Igel Technology has introduced a family of thin clients, called Universal Desktop, which it claims is the first to have single standard system images across the range.
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Tech industry watchers feel economic pain 19 January, 2009 09:37

Tech industry stalwart Gartner cancels its cornerstone event scheduled for this spring, reduces its workforce by more than 100 and proves that IT watchers aren't immune to the economic turmoil that the vendors they cover and the clients they serve are facing.
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RFID's new utility in the datacenter 22 August, 2008 14:50

When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags.
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How to troubleshoot sluggish apps 11 August, 2008 09:22

There's more at stake than lost productivity when application response times slow to a standstill. Company revenue also takes a hit.
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Your technology tent pole 01 August, 2008 09:02

One of my favorite questions for analysts and consultants is what small businesses should learn from big businesses. Let me quote Michael Dortch, long time IT analyst now with the Aberdeen Group, from an interview I did with him earlier this year: "If you are not entirely dependent on IT to do business and succeed competitively now, you will be by the time I'm finished speaking."
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Vendor missteps keep network security a work in progress 17 June, 2008 08:52

When Cisco Systems announced in June 2004 that it planned to develop network access control technology, it drew enormous attention to what had been an obscure market niche.
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High-performance servers created for midsize companies 04 April, 2008 09:35

An innovative virtualization vendor called ScaleMP is attempting to bring high-performance computing to midsize companies with a model that is essentially the opposite of VMware's: Instead of carving an x86 server into numerous partitions, ScaleMP aggregates multiple x86 machines and turns them into one powerful computer.
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Online reputation management is hot -- but is it ethical? 13 February, 2008 10:01

It's no secret that blogs, forums and other online chatter can make or break a company's reputation. Just ask Kryponite, which makes high-end locks for bicycles and other sporting equipment. The company's worst nightmare came true in 2004 when a post on an online bicycling forum revealed that an expensive Kryptonite lock could be opened in seconds with a ballpoint pen.
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Five data leak nightmares 08 January, 2008 10:20

Data breaches cost companies an average of US$197 per record in 2007, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute. The average cost of a data breach was US$6.3 million, up from US$4.8 million in 2006.