News of the Week - Analysts Insights

Dialogues covering various aspects of data can be found in the Data, Big Data & Digital Assets section.  Here are just a few:

• Loggly: Log management tool tells what broke -- and why | Kusnetzky Group - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 |Dan Kusnetzky
• What is your biggest backup challenge? – Podcast | Storage Switzerland, LLC - Wed, 12 Nov 2014 |Charlie Hodges
• November Travelogue Part 1: Bonfire Night, and Analytics Is On Fire | Gartner - Wed, 12 Nov 2014 |Alan D. Duncan
• November Travelogue Part 2: Data in Dublin  | Gartner - Thu, 13 Nov 2014 |Alan D. Duncan
• Analytics and the Rebirth of the Mainframe | TDWI - Tue, 11 Nov 2014  
• Analytics takes Center Stage at Workday Rising | Bersin & Associates - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 |Katherine Jones

Updates in the Mobile & Broadband market this week have analysts talking.  Here are just a few of the conversations:

• Carrier Wi-Fi to Hit US$8B Revenues as Cisco and Ruckus Secure Biggest Shares of Hotspot 2.0 Deployments | ABI Research - Mon, 10 Nov 2014  
• Lenovo and Huawei Third Quarter Results Indicate Outlook for the Smartphone Market | NPD Group - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 |Tina Teng
• Reality-check: some real stats on SMS and voice telephony usage trends | Dean Bubley - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 |Dean Bubley
• Installed Base of 802.15.4-enabled Devices to Exceed 2 Billion by 2019; ZigBee to Face Increasing Competition | ABI Research - Thu, 13 Nov 2014
• Third Quarter Carrier Snapshot - November 2014 | Compass Intelligence - Thu, 13 Nov 2014
• Mobile Transaction Users to Hit 2 Billion by 2017, Juniper Report Finds | Juniper Research - Wed, 12 Nov 2014  

Results from the web's "Singles Day" garner insights from analysts.  Find out more in the Retail section:

• Amazon pluralizes Singles Day | Byte Level Research - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 |John Yunker
• What Retailers Can Take Away From Singles' Day Binge | Forrester - Wed, 12 Nov 2014 |Vanessa Zeng
• 2014 China "11.11" Online Shopping Festival to Set New Record for Single-Day Sales | IDC - Mon, 10 Nov 2014  
• -11/11 Blows Out Black Friday for Digital Shopping Worldwide | eMarketer - Mon, 10 Nov 2014  

Here are more headlines that caught our attention this week:

• Will Digitalization Replace or Improve Public Sector Services? | Gartner - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 |Peter Sondergaard
• Pure vs EMC: who's winning? | TechnoQWAN - Tue, 11 Nov 2014 |Robin Harris
• Book Report: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Tue, 11 Nov 2014  
• Wearable devices and the future of authentication | Celent - Tue, 11 Nov 2014 |Jacob Jegher
• Another Open-Source SDN Controller? | Gartner - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 |Andrew Lerner
• Wireless to Wireless: KORE Buys Raco | ABI Research - Tue, 11 Nov 2014  
• Snapshot Assessment of Kore's Acquisition of Raco Wireless |Compass Intelligence - Tue, 11 Nov 2014  
• Gartner Says 4.9 Billion Connected "Things" Will Be in Use in 2015 | Gartner - Tue, 11 Nov 2014  

Due to the upcoming holiday season here in the US (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years), there will be some changes in the delivery schedule of the Weekly Scan:

• The issue for the week ending November 28th will go out on December 3rd.
• The last issue of 2014 will go out on December 23rd. But don't worry, all the headlines for the last two weeks of 2014 will appear in the issue that will go out on January 7th.
• Our regular delivery schedule will resume with the issue that goes out on January 13th