The desktop virtualisation market is approaching tipping point according to an industry survey commissioned by Dimension Data, where over 50% of 546 global survey participants say desktop virtualisation is either a "critical" or "major initiative" over the next 12-18 months. 

42% of participants say investment (or implementation) of virtual desktops is high priority, while 12% says it is a "critical priority". 

The survey also predicts virtual deployment levels will grow from 27% to 46% of enterprises over the next 2 years. 

Enterprise appears to Read more...

Gartner predicts the WW social CRM market will reach over $1 billion in revenue by 2012-- up from $625M in 2010. 

The analyst estimates 2011 social CRM earnings will total $820M. 

However social CRM amounts to just 5% of the total 2010 CRM application market-- when social software (for marketing), customer service and sales spending grow by 40% Y-o-Y in 2010.

The analyst says most of the 100 vendors with social CRM offerings remain small and non-profitable, generating average annual revenues of less than $1M-- even if many show growth of 50-100% in Read more...

UK-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) specialist Molten Technology reaches a distribution agreement with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) pioneer Desktone. 

Desktone is known for the industry's first purpose-built cloud-hosted virtual desktop platform, pioneering the DaaS concept back in 2007. IDC describes it as a "Major Player" in desktop virtualisation. 

Molten says Desktone's offering comes with "significantly lower" costs than tradtional VDI and remote desktop solutions-- as cloud-based VDI service, it requires no additional data center costs.  Read more...

Gartner reports end users will look outside IT organisations for application development-- predicting citizens developers will build around 25% of new business applications by 2014.

Citizen developers are end users creating new business applications using development and runtime environments sanctioned by corporate IT. 

Such end user application development (EUAD) is not new, but its risks (and opportunities) are only growing.

End users can build departmental, enterprise and even public applications, thanks to a number of converging forces-- changing Read more...