Strong CFO-CIO partnerships are key to digital investment success. Only 30 per cent of CFO-CIO relationships are characterized by strong collegiality and business centricity, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. These two key attributes define a strong digital partnership without which organizations struggle to find funding for digital…
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Zero trust doesn’t have to harm the quality of an organisation’s digital interactions. As business leaders look to incorporate principles of zero trust into their environment, one of the most daunting challenges is to apply this new security model to the digital interactions with customers. A key concern is that…
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Data centre investment surged to new highs in 2021. The rapid surge in data demand, fuelled by continued growth in cloud computing and social media use, is driving increased investor interest in Asia Pacific data centres, with investment in the sector soaring to record levels in 2021, according to the latest…
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Companies worldwide are continuing to talk about the metaverse. Companies worldwide are continuing to talk about the metaverse, according to GlobalData, which found that 40 per cent more companies mentioned ‘Metaverse’ in their company filings documents quarter-on-quarter. The Leading data and analytics company’s ‘Company Filing Analytics’ database reveals that mentions…
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Business impact of the CDO role to be discussed. Chief data officers (CDOs) who met revenue-generation objectives and data monetization goals were more successful in their role than those who primarily focused on enablement projects, such as data governance, according to the Gartner, Inc. seventh annual Chief Data Officer Survey.…
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77 per cent of Asia Pacific youth aspire to work in the green economy within the next 10 years. Three out of four young people in Asia Pacific aspire to get a green job within the next decade, outpacing youth elsewhere in the world in gravitating towards careers – and…
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The United States represents the largest regional market for Internet of Things. In the emerging world with more machines than people, IoT is poised to takes the centre stage. As the fastest growing man-made phenomenon, the rise of the machines is expanding the addressable market opportunity for IoT. The growth…
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IaaS, DaaS and PaaS to witness highest spending growth this year. Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20.4 per cent in 2022 to total $US494.7 billion, up from $US410.9 billion in 2021, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. In 2023, end-user spending is…
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The commercial market increased by 6.5 per cent YoY in 2021. The tablet market in the Asia/Pacific (including Japan and China) region posted a 12.9 per cent year-over-year (YoY) increase in 2021, reaching 56.4M units. Tablet shipments are expected to grow by 1.5 per cent in 2022 as supply improves…
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This is attributed to a faster economic rebound and the impact of inflation. 5G will overtake 4G as the most popular way to access mobile internet in the US as soon as 2024, when there will be more 5G subscribers than 4G, according to GlobalData. But 5G subscribers will consume…
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