Three actions for successful data and analytics

D&A can help with tasks such as enabling business model transformation, optimising resource allocation. To extend the influence of data analytics in a continually changing world, data and analytics (D&A) leaders must focus on finding agents of change within their organisations, building adaptive systems, and re-engineering the way decisions are made, according…

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India public Cloud end-user spending to total US$4.4B in 2021

Double-digit growth to continue as enterprises adopt hybrid working infrastructures. End-user spending on public cloud services in India will total $4.4 billion in 2021, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. As compared to 2020, end user spending on public cloud will grow 31.4 per cent in 2021. “Indian…

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Cybersecurity control failures topped executive concerns in early 2021

Globally cyber policies require a revamp to be more in line with the new work environment. Cybersecurity control failures was listed as the top emerging risk in the first quarter of 2021 in a global poll of senior executives across function and geography, according to Gartner’s Emerging Risks Monitor Report.…

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Non-IT workers consider themselves digital experts

Reliance on digital collaboration tools and IT self-service requirements changed workers’ relationships to technology. A recent Gartner survey shows today’s office workers consider themselves digital technology experts since COVID-19 has created heavy reliance on digital collaboration tools and self-service IT requirements. The survey showed nearly one in five workers (18…

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Worldwide public Cloud end-user spending to grow 23 per cent in 2021

Cloud spending driven by emerging technologies becoming mainstream. Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 23.1 per cent in 2021 to total US$332.3 billion, up from US$270 billion in 2020, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. The events of last year allowed CIOs to…

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Worldwide semiconductor revenue grew 10.4 per cent in 2020

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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Hackers exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Myanmar

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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Top 10 government technology trends for 2021

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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