Analyst report stories - Page 196

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 NZ 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.

Two-thirds of enterprises failing to control their critical data, risking security breaches, says IDC research commissioned by Actifio.

Connected living is becoming a reality with emerging IoT innovations and the convergence of ICT and electronics, says Frost - Sullivan report.

Smart home offerings offer potential for retailers, with Juniper Research predicting consumer spend on smart home services will hit US$100b by 2020.

Christchurch's Sensing City and an Auckland City smart zoning initiative have been named among the most outstanding smart city projects in APAC.

The need for speed, skills updates and the crucial role channel partners will play were on the agenda at a recent Canalys Channel Forum.

Are you - or your customers - sitting on a potential goldmine of customer data but failing to capitalise on the potential monetary value of it?.

APAC businesses prioritise innovation cells for agility amid CEO concerns over financial pressures and evolving business models.