Analyst report stories - Page 212

The wearables market is booming, with Gartner projecting sales of 274.6 million devices in 2016, including USD $11.5 billion in smartwatch revenue alone.

Global smartphone market slowdown affects Apple, with slowest Q4 market growth since 2008, according to Juniper Research.

There's a new market opening up for Kiwi resellers offering plenty of revenue potential - and a hidden gem waiting to be mined.

Microsoft's share of the total mobility market is just 12%, behind Google and Apple at 70% and 17% respectively, according to new figures from Canalys.

The transition towards detachable tablets is in full swing, with Apple coming out on top as the clear winner above Microsoft and other PC vendors.

The era of the Internet of Things is ending; we are now entering the era of the Pervasive Digital Presence, according to a security analyst.

Plan B has snapped up pioneer ISP Iconz as it looks to scale up its cloud, data centre and networking services offerings.

Australian organisations will focus on advanced analytics in 2016, driving business innovation and creating competitive advantage.

Businesses are failing to measure up to changing expectations when it comes to digital change, leading to deteriorating customer-brand relationships.

The worldwide smartphone market finished 2015 on a high, with a strong holiday quarter boosting volumes to record levels.

Healthcare, government and retail are driving mobility sales, with mobility offering 'transformative' opportunities for vendors – and resellers.

Analytics revolution looms as Gartner predicts a major shift in large organisations, with advanced algorithms driving competition.

IDC forecasts worldwide spending on DX technologies to reach $2.1bn in 2019, with enterprises as the biggest investors.

An oversupply of oil in the global economy is good news for the data center market, with investment expected to increase as energy prices decrease.

Chief data officers will be a standard role within large organisations, with 90% of large companies to have a CDO role by the end of 2019.

At least 1 in 3 home routers will be used as public Wi-Fi hotspots by 2017, exacerbating security and privacy concerns.

Infrastructure-as-a-service is on a rapid trajectory this year with both Gartner and IDC forecasting rapid growth in overall public cloud spend.

More devices will be shipping globally this year – but end-user spending will decline for the first time accordin.

The rush to digital transformation is creating a 'massive' wave of new investments in services to support the changes according to a new report.

The server security market was sized at over $800 million in 2014, and Trend Micro has grown its revenue share for server security to 30.3%.