Tag: Gartner

  • People seem to be buying Chromebooks

    Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300, according to NPD Group Inc. The devices, which have a full keyboard and get regular software updates from Google, are the fastest-growing part of the PC industry based on price,…

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  • Email Moving to Cloud Estimates

    Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts

    A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The up-shot was that right now, it’s just about 8% for all types of companies, globally (except India and China for some reason). Someone from SpiceWorks left a comment that arecent survey of theirs indicated something much different, at least…

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  • People stuck in the email backwoods

    Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to analyst company Gartner Gartner expects that 10% of enterprise email inboxes will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2014. …adoption will accelerate from the first half to 2015, reaching 33% penetartiong in 2017 and 60% by 2022 –Just…

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