Analyst report stories - Page 204

Cloud storage is biting deep into personal and entry-level storage shipments, which tumbled as consumers and small business took to cloud.

The IoT in the home market in Australia is forecast to tip $200 million by 2020 with security and energy management solutions leading the way.

Enterprises will lead the way with IoT spend next year, with Gartner predicting 5.5m new 'things' will connect to the internet of things every day.

Big data continues to be big business with IDC forecasting strong growth across big-data related infrastructure, software and services.

IDC says by 2020 more than 30% of IT vendors will not exist as we know them today, as digital transformation and third platform change IT forever.

IDC has issued a stark warning to local CIOs, saying they must transform or be left behind, with digital transformation and third platform booming.

Cloud is expected to drive IT services spend up in 2016, with hosting infrastructure services a key growth area for the channel.

Cloud management and security are driving public cloud services growth across the mature APac market, where 2015 spend is forecast to hit $7.4b.

Two-in-ones saw a 77% year on year increase in shipments in Q3 at a time when the overall PC market dropped 14% and tablets were down 20%.

Lumia shipments - and revenue - plummet on back of Microsoft's 'updated strategy' while BlackBerry drops to lowest shipments in 10 years.

Tablet shipments slumped in Q3 as owners hold on to their devices for longer periods - but the move to detachables seems to be intensifying.

Emerson Network Power excels again, bagging two Frost and Sullivan accolades for innovative data centre and UPS solutions.

All go for smartphones as shipments hit second highest level for a single quarter. So who were the movers and shakers?.

Huawei New Zealand garners 15% share of the Kiwi smartphone market, with New Zealand now among the top performing markets for the Chinese vendor.

BI, analytics and cloud top the list of priorities for IT spending for local CIOs, while digital transformation is foremost in many CIOs minds.

As purses loosen, a new survey of Australian and New Zealand CIOs highlights areas of investment for 2016, with BI and analytics leading the way.

Total IT spending in Australia to surpass $11.7 billion in 2016, as Gartner talks up the 'algorithm economy' and urges new security spend focus.

In the bad old days keeping a PC secure was simple. Nowadays, a huge chunk of our lives exists online, and digital security issues have escalated.

Bitdefender boosts mobile defence with mugshot-snapping feature to outfox snoops and smart-trusted network recognition.

Higher education IT spending in the Asia Pacific region is expected to significantly increase by 2019, thanks to digital transformation initiatives.