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Event Name: MCUs: Ultra-Low-Power is the ContestListen Now!
Overview:Growth in the MCU market is driven by the proliferation of embedded devices and an expanding range of vertical markets that are addressed by microcontrollers. New areas of development include capacitive touch sensing, lighting, building automation and smart metering, among others. The once general MCU no longer has the sophistication to address the requirements of the technology that is now coming to market. To meet this new need, a new tier of MCU has come to market that is defined as ultra-low-power. During this QuickCast, VDC’s Jonathan Hastings discusses a number of topics within the MCU market, including the general market sizing, bit count, channels, trends around green technology and the strategic direction of MCU vendors.
Date/Time:5/17/2012 N/A  (Recording Available. Click Link Above to View/Listen)
Length:13
Event Name: Scalable Edge Nodes Enable M2M Through The Embedded CloudListen Now!
Overview:As more internet service providers, computing, CPU, networking, storage, and hosting enterprises are converging to offer cloud services, scalable edge nodes are becoming increasingly important for both embedded computer suppliers and OEMs that use embedded computers. SENs solve the problems that come with operating dozens of different machine network types and protocols. In many cases, these machine networks have security and safety concerns that require them to be isolated. This is well beyond the typical Enterprise IT basket of concerns. Due to this increased need, VDC estimates that within five years, the overall revenues for SENs will more than double. During this QuickCast, VDC's David Laing discusses the unprecedented opportunity cloud services present for embedded computer suppliers and users, and where scalable edge nodes fit into the equation.
Date/Time:3/23/2012 N/A  (Recording Available. Click Link Above to View/Listen)
Length:13
Event Name: The Opportunity Around Embedded Integration Services in 2012 and BeyondListen Now!
Overview:Competitors from across the hardware spectrum, from OEM to traditional embedded hardware, are being drawn to the exciting new embedded integration services market. Companies would be smart to jump on this wagon early – but what key trends are dictating the market’s future? During this QuickCast, VDC’s Jon Hastings sheds some light on the subject by providing an overview of how VDC segments the market, regional trends, what embedded services customers are looking for from their providers, and highlights of VDC's perspectives.
Date/Time:2/16/2012 N/A  (Recording Available. Click Link Above to View/Listen)
Length:9
Event Name: The Future of the Embedded Hardware & Systems MarketListen Now!
Overview:The growing need for commercial off the shelf hardware as a means to reduce internal development cost and accelerate time to market is just one of the leading trends that we believe is causing many hardware manufacturers to reevaluate their current solution portfolios. During this QuickCast VDC's Chris Rommel discusses this, and several other trends we believe will shape the future of the Embedded Hardware & Systems market for 2012.
Date/Time:12/12/2011 N/A  (Recording Available. Click Link Above to View/Listen)
Length:13
Event Name: The Architecture of the ATCA & AMC MarketsListen Now!
Overview:Despite the broader industry adoption of the ATCA blades and AMC cards in new verticals, the majority of the commercial spend will continue to be dominated by the communications and networking vertical segments, whether on ATCA CPU Blades, on non-intelligent ATCA Carrier Blades or on MicroTCA systems. During this webcast, Analyst Jonathan Hastings drills further down into the vertical market opportunities and highlights some of the significant trends that are influencing the shape of the overall commercial market.
Date/Time:11/15/2011 N/A  (Recording Available. Click Link Above to View/Listen)
Length:10
Event Name: Clouds in Embedded Markets and Mission Critical ApplicationsListen Now!
Overview:During this QuickCast, VDC’s Chris Rezendes discusses the factors driving embedded cloud technology.
Date/Time:6/29/2011 N/A  (Recording Available. Click Link Above to View/Listen)
Length:12
Event Name: The Embedded Hardware Boards & Systems Market a Year Into the Recession: How Has the Market Shifted and What is the New Course? Listen Now!
Overview:Please note that registration is required to view this webcast recording. The merchant market for embedded boards and systems continues to evolve throughout the recession - creating new opportunities for agile suppliers of embedded technology. These new opportunities are being driven by OEMs; who are converting from internally building and integrating captive systems to buying merchant products from embedded suppliers. While this conversion is taking place, several other challenges are forcing embedded suppliers to rethink how they compete and differentiate their services in order to keep pace. During this webcast we will discuss the challenges facing embedded suppliers and how they will have to adjust given the current economic climate.
Date/Time:11/11/2009 1:00 pm (EST)  (Recording Available. Click Link Above to View/Listen)
Length:60
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Title of Summarized Report: STRATEGIC INSIGHTS 2012: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS | EMBEDDED PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES | Microcontroller Units (MCUs)
Publication Date:May 2012
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: MIGRATING TO THE EMBEDDED CLOUD: THE IMPACT OF CLOUD-BASED DEPLOYMENT METHODOLOGIES ON THE EMBEDDED ECOSYSTEM | MIGRATING TO THE EMBEDDED CLOUD | The Impact of Cloud-Based Deployment Methodologies on the Embedded Ecosystem
Publication Date:April 2012
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: STRATEGIC INSIGHTS 2012: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS | FASTFORWARD: INSIGHT FOR LEADERS | Connecting the Next 10 Billion Devices: Professional Service Opportunities for Embedded Technology Leaders
Publication Date:April 2012
Page Count:2
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS SUPPLIER ANALYSIS | Niche Markets & Emerging Applications
Publication Date:January 2012
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SERVICES ANALYSIS | Global Embedded Systems Integration Services Analysis
Publication Date:January 2012
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS & EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEMAND ANALYSIS | Medical
Publication Date:December 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS & EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEMAND ANALYSIS | Industrial Automation & Control
Publication Date:December 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS SUPPLIER ANALYSIS | Stackables
Publication Date:December 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS SUPPLIER ANALYSIS | Communications/Networking
Publication Date:December 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS SUPPLIER ANALYSIS | Military/Aerospace
Publication Date:December 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS SUPPLIER ANALYSIS | Transportation
Publication Date:December 2011
Page Count:12
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS SUPPLIER ANALYSIS | Mezzanine Cards/Computers-On-Modules (COMs)
Publication Date:November 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS & EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEMAND ANALYSIS | Communications/Networking
Publication Date:June 2011
Page Count:12
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS & EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEMAND ANALYSIS | Transportation
Publication Date:May 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS & EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEMAND ANALYSIS | Transportation
Publication Date:May 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED HARDWARE & SYSTEMS, 2011 | EMBEDDED BOARDS & EMBEDDED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEMAND ANALYSIS | Medical
Publication Date:April 2011
Page Count:11
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED PROCESSORS, 2010 | | Embedded Processors
Publication Date:February 2011
Page Count:10
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Title of Summarized Report: THE EMBEDDED CLOUD & SCALABLE EDGE NODES FOR MISSION CRITICAL, HIGH AVAILABILITY & EMBEDDED APPS, 2010 | | The Embedded Cloud & Scalable Edge Nodes
Publication Date:September 2010
Page Count:9
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED COTS SYSTEMS IN MILITARY, AEROSPACE & DEFENSE APPLICATIONS, 2009 | | COTS Systems: North American Analysis
Publication Date:January 2010
Page Count:8
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED COTS SYSTEMS IN MILITARY, AEROSPACE & DEFENSE APPLICATIONS, 2009 | | COTS Systems: European Union Analysis
Publication Date:January 2010
Page Count:8
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED COTS SYSTEMS IN MILITARY, AEROSPACE & DEFENSE APPLICATIONS, 2009 | | COTS Boards: European Union Analysis
Publication Date:December 2009
Page Count:8
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Title of Summarized Report: EMBEDDED COTS SYSTEMS IN MILITARY, AEROSPACE & DEFENSE APPLICATIONS, 2009 | | COTS Boards: North American Analysis
Publication Date:October 2009
Page Count:8
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Title of Summarized Report: THE GLOBAL XTCA OPPORTUNITY, 2009 | | ATCA
Publication Date:January 2009
Page Count:10
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Title of Summarized Report: THE GLOBAL XTCA OPPORTUNITY, 2009 | | MicroTCA
Publication Date:January 2009
Page Count:10
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Document Title: Embedded Services: Differentiating Profit Centers or COGS?
Publication Date:February 2012
Excerpt:As the embedded hardware markets become increasingly commoditized, there is a greater opportunity around embedded services. The embedded services market is undergoing fascinating changes as new competitors traditionally in the IT space move into it, and traditional embedded companies move up the value chain to incorporate additional services alongside their flagship hardware products.
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Document Title: CONSTRAINED BUDGETS PRESENT NEW AVENUE FOR ATCA ADOPTION IN MIL/AERO SEGMENT
Publication Date:December 2011
Excerpt:As of late, US military budgets are facing an increased number of threats. When the government budgetary super committee failed on November 21st to reach an agreement on cuts, it brought about the possibility of a sequestration of funds which now threatens an additional $600 billion in defense spending. This is in addition to the $450 billion the Pentagon was already planning to cut over the next ten years. This hardly bodes well for the future of overall defense spending.
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Document Title: GROWTH IN EMBEDDED CLOUDS DRIVING WIDE OPEN OPPORTUNITY FOR TUNED-IN HARDWARE SUPPLIERS
Publication Date:October 2011
Excerpt:Scalable Edge Nodes (SEN) are increasingly viewed as critical enabling technologies for migrating mission-critical, high availability, line-of-business applications to the cloud. However, SEN configurations make up a fragmented collection of solutions that are challenging to describe. While the basic definition of SEN is stabilizing, the breadth of their deployments will drive a wide array of configurations and complexity. This is only the first reason why both the SEN market and many other embedded cloud enabling technologies will create wide open markets for hardware suppliers tuned into this complexity.
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Document Title: SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS: ENABLING A NEW CLASS OF COMPUTING FOR GOVERNMENT APPLICATIONS IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF COST CONTAINMENT
Publication Date:August 2011
Excerpt:According to VDC’s latest demand-side research, as embedded chip, board and systems customers make their purchase decisions, suppliers are increasingly being scrutinized. Across virtually every measurable customer experience category, suppliers are being compared and ranked on their ability to meet or exceed a competitor’s past (and potential) performance. With this as the reality, we believe that it is critical for embedded suppliers to carefully define their specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – as they relate to customer satisfaction – in order to gain market share.
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Document Title: Q2 2011 EMBEDDED PROCESSOR MARKET UPDATE: JAPAN RECOVERS
Publication Date:May 2011
Excerpt:As Japan and its citizens continue to recover from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the embedded processor community continues to assess the global Q2 economic impact associated with reported manufacturing and supply chain disruptions. This VDC Research Note provides an overview assessment of the current quarter’s impact on selected embedded processor suppliers and their respective business operations.
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Document Title: CURTISS-WRIGHT ACQUIRES HYBRICON
Publication Date:June 2010
Excerpt:On May 27, 2010 Curtiss-Wright Controls (Charlotte, NC) announced that it would acquire Hybricon Corporation (Ayer, MA) for US$ 19 million. Hybricon designs and manufactures custom and standard-based enclosures and electronic backplanes for defense and commercial applications. They are a packaging supplier for a number of the most popular embedded commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) system architectures including OpenVPX, VPX, VXS, VME64X, CompactPCI, and MicroTCA.
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Document Title: KONTRON TOPS UP ITS MIL/AERO BUSINESS WITH AP LABS ACQUISITION
Publication Date:May 2010
Excerpt:Kontron has been on a mission to grow its embedded military/aerospace COTS business for more than two years. And why not? This high margin market offers a number of margin rich, steady growth segments. Shifting priorities in US DOD, DHS, EU and allied nation MoDs is driving demand for embedded computing, control and communications platforms such as those sold by Kontron.
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Document Title: THE EVOLVING DEFENSE ACQUISITION STRATEGY
Publication Date:April 2010
Excerpt:Formally launched in 2003, the Army’s $160 billion Future Combat Systems (FCS) program was envisioned as a way of converting 15 existing brigades into FCS Brigade Combat Teams equipped with advanced manned and unmanned vehicles linked by a comprehensive network that would permit all military branches to communicate across the battlefield. Collectively, FCS was comprised of multiple weapons systems, where the actual number changed over time (i.e., 13 in 2003 with five deferred; 18 in 2004 and then 14 in 2006). The foundation for this comprehensive 29-year program, which was designed to deliver 10,000 systems, included manned ground vehicles, unmanned systems, an enhanced secure communications network, and other related technologies and systems.
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Document Title: BUILDING OUT THE NEXT-GEN NETWORK EDGE WITH SCALABLE EDGE NODES: SCALABLE EDGE NODE DEPLOYMENT CASES
Publication Date:December 2009
Excerpt:Scalable Edge Nodes might be described as flexible appliances, or higher density, low-mid range high availability PCs and servers. They are currently being specified, developed, marketed and deployed as host platforms for a wide range of traditional and emerging applications, installed in a wide range of deployment methods, including hosted or managed services modes.
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