Its $20.5 billion figure referred solely to corporate information technology globally.
"Context-aware content delivery will transform the experience of using corporate information technology".
What effect, if any, has Sarbanes-Oxley had on corporate information technology leaders.
The company hopes that the new software makes Samsung smartphones attractive to corporate information technology departments that worry about the theft of sensitive corporate data by hackers.
"Cloud computing will become the new foundation for corporate information technology — it's inevitable," said Frank Gens, chief analyst for IDC, a technology research firm.
He cited ServiceNow, which automates corporate information technology processes; INRIX, a provider of traffic information; and Tableau, an analytics and business intelligence providerbased in Seattle.
It was clear from RIM's presentation, however, that the company is banking on the phone's really catching on with corporate information technology departments.
The time when corporate information technology departments supplied smartphones and thus decided what phone their employees would use is largely over.
Then, the iPhone's popularity led corporate information technology departments, which once allowed only BlackBerrys to connect to their e-mail networks, to support employees' iPhones.
For its clients, the lure of cloud computing is the savings made possible by cutting in-house corporate information technology departments and hardware and software purchases.
The issue isn't so much a technical one, he argues, as it is one of getting corporate information technology professionals interested in radical design changes.
