“Low-priced devices are vital growth drivers for smart displays and heated competition ahead of the Q4 shopping season is expected."More

“The largest systems integrators are investing in partnerships and building business practices with all three of the top cloud providers – AWS, Microsoft and more recently Google Cloud."More

"For Baidu to replace Google to become the world's second largest smart speaker vendor, is no small feat."More

AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba continue their dominance in worldwide cloud infrastructure services market.More

“Huawei’s addition to the United States Entity List caused uncertainty overseas, but in China it has kept its foot on the accelerator."More

“Its current trajectory would see it displace Samsung by the end of 2019, dealing a major blow to the Korean vendor."More

“Vendors have become accustomed to high double-digit percentage growth rates over the last 18 months,” however, shipment numbers are starting to fall.More

Cybersecurity solutions for public cloud and ‘as a service’ offerings are continuing to grow, however traditional hardware and software deployments still dominate the market.More

Asia Pacific will account for 17.4% of the 800 million 5G smartphone shipments globally in 2023. More

The matrix is based on unique feedback from channel partners via the Candefero channels community, combined with Canalys quarterly shipment estimates and analyst insight.More

AWS has made the biggest gains up US$2.3 billion, while Google keeps it spot as fastest growing at 81% year on year.More

People across the world love their smart speakers – and we have AI assistants like Amazon Alexa to thank for the revolution.More

The Cloud Wars continue as Alibaba and Google stake claims in a market that will see spending hit US$143 billion next year, driven by the channel.More

Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet, all with a strong focus on network security products, outperformed the market, recording strong double-digit growth.More

As spend continues to increase, cybersecurity only represents 2% of total IT expenditure, even as organisations increase protection against malicious threats and keep in line with data compliance regulations.More

Pockets of growth, both in segments and geography, will persist, particularly in Asia Pacific, one of two regions to avoid shipment declines in 2019. More

According to Canalys, spending grew by 46% in 4Q18 and AWS maintained dominance with nearly a third of the total.More

Canalys analysts say the huge growth in cloud services will be of benefit to channel partners with a number of incentives.More

A new report from Canalys has revealed what the world’s two largest cloud providers have been up to – and they’ve certainly been busy.More

There was a lot to unpack at the Canalys APAC Channels Forum keynote. This long-form piece tries to cover all the most relevant points for A/NZ.More

Ongoing trade tensions between China and the US  are having a significant impact on the cloud service providers market.More

The IT vendor programme. A stalwart of the channel, but one that is seemingly beginning to hold less relevance as new research reveals.More

While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.More

With a 41% year on year growth, compared to Apple’s 1%, Huawei is now second only to Samsung in the number of shipments this quarter.More