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Smart home device shipments reached 801.5 million in 2020, set to reach 1.4 billion by 2025, says a study by the International Data Corporation.

Top trends in security and risk management include cybersecurity mesh, identity-first security, and remote work support, says Gartner.

That means that most data was essentially created to be consumed, or cached and overwritten with new data, says IDC.

The sharp uptake of social and collaboration tools in 2020 was far from a short term fad while people worked from home.

Employers face complex challenges as they consider implementing vaccine passports in the workplace, warns research firm Forrester.

Asia Pacific countries are leading the way in private network deployments, creating a market worth $7bn by 2025, says ABI Research.

Australian organisations to spend over A$4.9bn on enterprise information security in 2021, an 8% increase from last year, says Gartner.

Demand for education devices and switches to notebooks leads to strongest year of PC shipments in New Zealand, according to IDC research.

Smartphones accounted for 72% of website traffic in Asia Pacific in 2020, but half of mobile users bounce after viewing just one page, says Contentsquare study.

The rapid shift to remote work during the pandemic has increased digital risk, with cyber attackers targeting cloud-based tools, warns NTT.

SAS named leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms for eighth consecutive year.

Consumer device market set for huge growth post-COVID-19, with 5G smartphones and voice control smart home devices leading the way, says ABI Research.

Smarter AI, composable analytics and XOps are among the top data and analytics technology trends for 2021, according to Gartner.

IDC states worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, a year-over-year increase of 27.2%.

Despite organisations cutting spending in many areas during 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19, security remains a consistent area of increased investment.

Pandemic challenges have catalysed technology trends across the globe and accelerated organisations' digital transformations sooner than initially predicted.

Worldwide smartphone shipments could achieve a 5.5% growth rate this year - and PC shipment rates will also grow 18.2%.

The reduction is, in part, due to the theory that aggregated compute resources across enterprise and large data centres are more efficient.

Laptops are the future of work for many SMBs in Asia Pacific post-COVID-19, but owners may not be ready, says a new survey from IDC and ASUS.

Hyperconnectivity market offers billion-dollar opportunities, says Frost - Sullivan analysis. Device-to-person ratio to exceed 20 to 1 by 2030.