Analyst report stories - Page 209

IDC has assessed how each MSSP vendor measures up against the others to determine who was leading the pack in the market.

Westcon spearheads industry transformation, pushing Australian businesses towards a digital future while IDC's Adam Dodds predicts a radical shake-up.

Gartner believes that 2014 is the last year that the market will exhibit such solid double-digit growth in its current form.

The worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market experienced a small decline in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), according to IDC.

Apple's recent shift to bigger screen models with a broader country reach has had an immediate impact on volumes.

Wearables will be a $1 billion market in Australia by 2018 with enterprise adoption expected to take off from 2017.

Augmented Reality apps in the mobile games market will generate 420 million downloads annually by 2019, up from 30 million in 2014.

Fitbit tops the sales figures, but research firm Canalys forecasts 20 million Apple Watches will be shipped in 2015.

Genesys named market leader by Gartner in Magic Quadrant report for seventh consecutive year. #contactcentre #customerexperience.

With a global PC market slump of 7% in Q1 2015, analysts remain sceptical that the launch of Windows 10 will revive PC sales despite Microsoft's efforts.

Education has driven worldwide Chromebook sales to end users to reach 7.3 million units in 2015, up 27% from the year before.

Plan B has appointed former Vodafone enterprise director Grant Hopkins as its chief commercial officer, which will focus on customer experience.

Enterprise architects must pivot towards harnessing the power of the new digital business ecosystem to foster innovation, Gartner advises.

Gartner is urging buyers to be cautious as many service providers are shifting their strategies after failing to gain enough market traction.

IoT market to grow 19% this year alone, investment in data centres needed to prevent aging data centres hindering IoT growth.

Worldwide personal and entry-level storage shipments decline, due to competition from public cloud and media consumption preferences.

Cloud-based services in NZ are expected to record a staggering 15-27% CAGR out to 2019 according to a new IDC report, with IT budgets also on the up.

Australia is at the forefront of enterprise mobility maturity and vision with BYOD solved and companies seeking complex business transformation.

The cost of data breaches is expected to soar to $2 trillion globally by 2019 - and its not mobile or IoT that will be the source of most breaches...

Planning for the long term is crucial for organisations to outperform their competitors, according to a survey by Gartner.