New connected products and technologies,
including smart HDTVs, voice controls, Android tablets, and multifunction
e-readers, are changing the way consumers access and manage content in the
home.
Parks Associates will highlight its latest
consumer and industry research in these key markets at CONNECTIONS Summit at
2012 International CES in Las Vegas on January 10.
The summit features sessions with Parks
Associates analysts and senior executives from Verizon, Best Buy, Motorola,
IBM, and other leading companies discussing the changing entertainment and
device landscape and its impact on consumers. Following the sessions, GSMA is
sponsoring the CONNECTIONS Summit Networking Reception.
Parks Associates forecasts more than 920 million connected devices, including smartphones and tablets,
will be sold worldwide in 2012, and revenues from operator-provided cloud-based
value-added services will exceed $8.5 billion by 2015.
CONNECTIONS Summit sessions address the
television’s evolving role in the home, content distribution, new value-added
services, and consumer interest in the digital locker.
“We have a stellar lineup of participants
this year. We designed the Summit panels to provide research insight and
analyst perspectives followed by an interactive discussion about key business
issues and the most pressing challenges in these markets,” said Stuart Sikes,
president, Parks Associates.
Cloud is becoming a focus area for many
companies.
This massive data growth combined with the
high cost and reliability issues surrounding traditional offsite storage will
force a revolution in the industry, as companies push to get greater ROI from
existing infrastructure and take a more strategic view of their data, according to Matthew J. Schiltz, CEO of Symform.
The focus on data will serve as a catalyst
for IT professionals to seek out new architectural models and technologies.
Companies will focus more on vendors to reduce the cost of cloud-based
services, such as storage, without jeopardizing security. This is challenging
as cloud providers continue to be burdened with huge capital investment,
operating expenses, and build out of new centralized data centers. This centralized
data center expansion will come under increasing fire from environmentalists,
as this is clearly not a green cloud computing model.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
