CHR Solutions Blog

Global IPTV subscriptions were approaching 60 million as of year-end 2011, with growth accelerating to record the market's biggest three-month increase to date, according to a new Point Topic research report.

Tablets are all the rage in the portable computing device market, but explosive growth in tablet purchases hasn't dampened demand for laptop computers. One in three respondents of an ongoing ABI research tracking study said they plan to purchase a laptop in 1H 2012.

CTIA Wireless is next week, May 8-10 in New Orleans and we’re ready for show time. It’s been a long road to get here and we’re looking forward to speaking with you!  Anyone who’s prepped for a tradeshow, especially one the size of CTIA, knows there is a lot of work put into exhibiting. From ordering booth furnishings, to deciding messaging, to promoting your booth space - everything manages to come together in the end.

Did you know last week, April 22 to April 28 was National Severe Weather Preparedness Week? Take time to prepare yourself, your family, and your business for a future disaster. Be sure to think about the importance of planning and practicing how and where to take shelter before severe weather, such as tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, strike.

Amazon executives last week touted the benefits to enterprises of using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Amazon CTO Werner Vogels shared figures from the 451 Group showing that Amazon has around a 60% share of the fast emerging (IaaS) market.

iPhone 4S hit a record-high 37% of total smartphone activations in 1Q 2012, four times that of any other smartphone, according to Good Technology's latest quarterly smartphone and tablet activation report. Apple took the second spot as well, with iPad 2 activations accounting for 17.7% of the quarter's total.
 
The quarterly reports provide a breakdown of smartphone and tablet activations across Good's enterprise customers, which include eight of the top ten financial institutions, seven of the top ten healthcare companies, half of the Fortune 100 and companies spanning every major industrial sector, according to a company press release.

We announced yesterday that Kalona Cooperative Telephone Company (KCTC) selected CHR Solutions as their partner to bring cloud services to their Iowa community. KCTC will target their small to medium-sized business (SMB) customers with white labeled cloud applications powered by our cloud solution.

Growing demand by service providers of all stripes is driving growth in the Deep-Packet Inspection (DPI) market, a market in which revenue will grow to $2 billion in 2016, according to Infonetics Research's "Service Provider Deep Packet Inspection Products" report.

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) may be missing an opportunity to provide data backup and recovery services in the small-to-medium-size business/enterprise (SMB/SME) market, according to the results of a survey conducted by Modular Data Protection Services (Modular DPS), Intel Hybrid Cloud Group and Intel.

A Wall Street Journal report highlights how much more personal information is being captured and shared by social media apps and social network providers such as Facebook, along with the possible and actual risks and threats this poses for users. The report also points out the billions of dollars that are now at stake, as app users offer more personal data.