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Tech Digest – Week 16, 2013

Written by Corporate | Apr 19, 2013 4:16:02 PM

Growing Investment in Cloud

Forty percent of the organizations today are having their own private cloud and twenty five percent are availing the public cloud services. Majority of the private cloud owners are extending and expected to move completely to cloud within next twelve months. Also, thirty percent of public cloud users are using hosted services to run their private clouds.

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Fifty Percent of mobile apps will be hybrid by 2016

Gartner forecasts that mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device by end of 2013 with growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD). HTML5 has been promising in development of responsive web application but have failed on providing offline capabilities and animation rich tools is forcing organizations to go hybrid.

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Big Data on Strategic Priority

With growing need to manage huge data, majority of organizations are going for Big Data which will help them improve their decision making and increase in competitiveness. Eighty three percent IT managers in India agree that Big Data is going to be a strategic priority for their companies in 2013 and over the next five years as well compared to 68 per cent globally.

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Rise in Microsoft Office 365 Adoption

Microsoft has claimed that there has been significant increase in the number of people using online productivity suite office 365 and this was the strongest quarter ever were remarks made by MS Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein. Major releases of this quarter involved a revamped version of the product featuring the 2013 version of Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online, as well as tighter integration with the subscription version of Microsoft’s desktop software Office 2013.

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