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Greyhound Research, the IT research and advisory arm of Greyhound Knowledge Group conducted a survey of 300 senior IT decision makers in the APJ and MEA regions. The study covered seven key verticals including Manufacturing, Retail, Professional Services, Media &…
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Consumers in emerging economies have skipped past stodgy old landlines and PCs straight to mobile phones. But that doesn't mean CIOs in those regions won't run into problems with building the mobile enterprise. "To successfully implement a project compared to…
Times have changed, and so has the use of smartphones. From the earlier simplistic use of fetching email and contacts, smartphones are now the powerhouse for consumers and business users who use mobile gadgets for accessing applications and surf the…
Although cost saving is one of the key drivers for the trending success of cloud computing, cloud deployments do not always and necessarily mean saving costs; nor does the cloud mean that a company can perpetually go on saving with…
The ever-developing and already crowded smartphone sphere will witness the re-entry of global IT giant Hewlett-Packard (HP). Realizing the business potential in the smartphone industry, Yam Su Yin, the company’s Senior Director, Consumer PC and Media Tablets Asia Pacific told…
Six years ago, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia had a pretty broad brief for Jawahar Kanjilal: he had to launch some services targeted at emerging markets. Kanjilal did some research and zeroed in on an SMSbased information service called Nokia Life Tools…
The pressure to expand IT infrastructure coupled with the need to minimise costs has heightened the demand for chargeback systems. If done well, a chargeback mechanism allows IT costs to scale up or down based on demand and usage, say…
At a recent tweet chat organized by Greyhound Research (corresponding hashtag: #SecurityChat), an esteemed group of panelists discussed 'Security in the New IT World'. The conversation revolved around various facets of security issues plaguing todays enterprises, particularly impact of emerging technologies…
Read More Data Security – The Questions, Solutions and Do’s and Don’ts
BlackBerry's new Q10 Smartphone has failed to generate any significant interest amongst the tech enthusiasts and users, who termed the phone as overpriced. The Canadian manufacturer has unveiled its QWERTY Smartphone, Q10 in India at a whopping price tag of…
The increasing use of Apple’s products in organizations across emerging markets is noteworthy. To better understand this evolution, Greyhound Research conducted an online survey across the APJ and MEA regions. We surveyed 300 IT decision makers – 150 each in…
Join me and other esteemed panelists for a tweet-up on the enterprise mobility. WHEN: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 between 4 pm and 5 pm. WHERE: Twitter.com or your fav Twitter app, using #IBMMobile and #MobileChat. WHAT: We will be using this time to…
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When Godrej Consumer Products wanted to implement an analytics solution, it had only one focus in mind: to have overall information visibility, especially in view of the fact that the amount of data a business has to deal with is…
The idea of network administrators having programmable central control of network traffic without requiring physical access to the network’s hardware devices seems to be finally gaining ground. A sign of this is Juniper’s recently announced strategy on SDN, which focuses…
Join Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO of Greyhound Research, for a tweet-up at the 4G World Conference India! WHEN: Thursday, April 25, 2013, and Friday, April 26, 2013 WHERE: Twitter.com or your fav Twitter app, using #DisruptiveTech WHAT:…
Read More Join Greyhound Research For A Tweet-Up with Sanchit Vir Gogia at the 4G World Conference!
It is no longer a hypothesis. The exponential growth in digital information has brought forth new verticals and businesses—and analytics is a key segment that sprung up in the boom. Research firm IDC projects that the digital universe will reach…
Opportunities are what we constantly seek. But, often, to access them we need to know where to look. For many partners, the budgetary restrictions of a slothful economy have proved detrimental to growth. But this new fiscal is not one…
We’ve all heard about the recent announcement by Microsoft to stop support for Windows XP by April 2014. While the announcement is not a surprise, it does usher a long list of questions and concerns for CIOs across the globe.…
Read More Surviving The Post Windows XP Era – We Are Keen To Hear From You!
As a follow-up to my previous post where I shared an update within a month of launching the website, I wanted to take this opportunity to share significant news with all of you. So what’s the update? http://www.AsDisruptiveAsITGets.com has reached…
Read More #GreyhoundCorridors: And We’ve Reached A Milestone!
CIOs are usually bombarded with various cycles of prediction and reports made by IT research companies/consultancies and vendors to give them a fair idea of what technologies are going to make it big. But, have these technologies really had the…
Read More So What’s The Fuss With These Technologies Really About?
As a follow-up to my previous blog where I highlighted pain points IT decision makers are facing in India, below are some of my observations from the budget announcement yesterday. While a can of worms might be in the offing…
A discussion with IT leaders and managers on cloud security is always an interesting one. While I’ve had the pleasure of having multiple such discussions over the last 2-3 years, the roundtable I chaired during the recent NASSCOM India Leadership…
It’s that time of the year again when Indians and all others with economic ties to this country eagerly await the announcements from the much celebrated annual financial event, the Union Budget. To gauge the market sentiment, I made a…
Read More Keeping A Cat-Eyed Vision At The Union Budget 2013-14
Most CIO conversations that I've had in the past few quarters either begin or end with a discussion on social technologies. While some refer to social as LinkedIn, Twitter and blogs, other mature and advanced users talk about tools like…
Read More Decision Making A Roadblock For Adoption of Social Technologies
After not addressing the flak for years from Governments across the globe, the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India (GoI) has introduced new rules earlier this year. Coined as the Information Technology (IT) Rules, 2011, the notification is…
Read More What Do DIT’s ‘IT Rules, 2011’ Mean To Orgs Operating In India?
