Revenue totalled US$466.2 billion in 2020, an increase of 10.4 per cent from 2019. Memory, GPUs and 5G chipsets led semiconductor growth, driven by hyperscale, PC, ultramobile and 5G handset end-market demand, according to Gartner. However automotive and industrial electronics suffered due to lower spending or a pause in spending owing to COVID-19 said Andrew Norwood,…
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Funding for new digital business initiatives to come from outside of IT. Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$4.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.4 per cent from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The source of funds for new digital business initiatives will more frequently come from…
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Political developments and digital crackdowns of the past few months have pitted hacktivists against the Govt. The political developments and digital crackdowns in Myanmar over the past few months have driven citizen and opposition movement toward anonymous channels to communicate. With more than 68 million mobile users in Myanmar, IntSights researchers found…
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IT staffing growth on automation, Cloud platforms, and support for remote work Over half of CIOs surveyed plan to increase their total number of full-time employees (FTEs) in IT across the course of 2021, according to Gartner. These CIOs will predominantly focus staffing growth in the areas of automation, cloud…
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Trends address critical security, cost containment and citizen experience challenges in the public sector. COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the acceleration of digital innovation across the government sector around the world, presenting government leaders with new opportunities to use data and technologies to build trust, agility, and resilience in public institutions. Analyst…
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Not even a month into the new year and cybersecurity issues have hit many notable organisations. APAC organisations suffered seven or more attacks infiltrating their networks or systems over the past year, and the majority (81 per cent) suffered one or more attacks. Over two thirds (76 per cent) of…
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Information security and risk management spending in India to grow 9.5 per cent in 2021. Enterprise information security and risk management end user spending in India is on pace to total US$2.08 billion in 2021, an increase of 9.5 per cent from 2020, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.…
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Trends that can help organisations respond to change, uncertainty and opportunities. The speed at which the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted organisations has forced data and analytics (D&A) leaders to have tools and processes in place to identify key technology trends and prioritize those with the biggest potential impact on their competitive…
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Progress of Gen Z in the workforce drives transformation. The evolution towards an autonomous supply chain has already begun, and this transformation coincides and is driven by members of Generation Z (Gen Z), that have just started to enter the workforce, according to Gartner. Born between 1997 and 2012, the oldest…
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Government spending on devices and software to record highest increases YoY. Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total US$483 billion in 2021, an increase of 5.1 per cent from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Government organisations continue to be challenged with the appropriate level of interventions…
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