The era of CIOs investing in cloud IaaS and PaaS maybe over. The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 40.7 per cent in 2020 to total USUS$64.3 billion, up from US$45.7 billion in 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. Amason retained the No. 1 position in the IaaS market in…
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Manufacturers are under extreme pressure to digitise. The Manufacturing Execution Systems market has been pretty lively in 2020-21, noted Gartner. Much of the activity has been the crush of vendors rushing to embrace microservices, containerized applications and low-code/no-code development, wrote Rick Franzosa senior director analyst at Gartner. In a blog…
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More funding in this area than any other in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the acceleration of digital, leading to CFOs planning to increase technology investments, with 82 per cent saying they intend to increase investment in digital capabilities in fiscal year (FY) 2021 compared to FY20, according to…
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Supply Chain Innovations Can Provide Positive Impact on People, Performance and Industries With the growing need for digitally interconnected supply chain networks, Gartner, Inc. has identified the top 8 supply chain technology themes in 2021. Gartner analysts have selected the themes for their transformational potential and their ability to foster operational resiliency across business…
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Dealing with cloud networking software. With growing adoption SaaS and public cloud IaaS, it’s no shocker that we’re getting an increasing number of calls about cloud networking. However, the tenor of these calls is actively shifting from purely “TO” the cloud (i.e., SD-WAN); to now also include networking “IN” the…
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Enterprise need to have a strategy regarding older data centers. The days of a traditional enterprise-owned data centre serving as the sole location to source IT services were waning. In a newly released blog by Bob Gill research vice president Infrastructure Strategies group at Gartner. According to Gill a growing reliance on externally provided…
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New data and analytics techniques. By 2025, 70 per cent of organisations will shift their focus from big to small and wide data, providing more context for analytics and making artificial intelligence (AI) less data hungry. Disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic is causing historical data that reflects past conditions to…
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Trends can help organisations respond to chance, uncertainty, and opportunities. The speed of the disruption caused by COVID-19 has forced data and analytics leaders to have tools and processes in place to identify key technology trends and prioritise those with the biggest potential impact on their competitive advantage. Rita Sallam…
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Data and analytics leaders leading or heavily involved in digital transformation initiatives. About seventy-two percent of data and analytics (D&A) leaders with digital initiatives are either leading or heavily involved in their organisation’s digital transformation initiatives, according to Gartner’s sixth annual Chief Data Officer (CDO) survey. “The results indicate that…
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Forcing employees to go back to the office could result in losing up to 39 per cent of their workforce Current virtualised work design models are damaging employees’ well-being and productivity, according to Gartner, Inc. To succeed in a hybrid future, organisations must stop duplicating office-centric practices and shift to a…
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