Customer demand shifts from hardware to software as data centre change heightens
“Industry-standard server (ISS) has a growing impact on the global data centre hardware market."
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IT investment rate slows as businesses put on the spending brakes
“Aside from exchange rate volatility, IT spending has been relatively stable for the past five years.”
Vendors search for “pockets of growth” amidst “volatile” spending economy
“With the global economy entering a new and uncertain phase, IT spending will be heavily influenced by economic cycles and wild cards over the next five years."
Chance for channel growth as SaaS remains dominant Public Cloud type
“Over the past several years, the software industry has been shifting to a Cloud-first (SaaS) development and deployment model."
Tablet market tumbles, but 2-in-1 devices offer bright spots of growth
“2-in-1 detachable tablets have reached an inflection point in 2015..."
Red Hat: Top 5 trends for the channel to capitalise on in 2016
"There's a re-think among channel suppliers about what they offer as part of their core business and how to offer it."
Why oil price collapse will accelerate datacentre investment in 2016
“Datacentres, with their monolithic energy consumption, will benefit from cheaper electricity as wholesale gas prices decline."
SaaS dominates as Public Cloud services spending skyrockets
“By 2018, most software vendors will have fully shifted to a SaaS/PaaS code base."
Cloud deployments rise as IT infrastructure spend grows
The overall share of Cloud IT infrastructure sales climbed to 33.8 per cent in 3Q15, up from 28.7 per cent a year ago.
Cisco will need to tackle these high-tech issues in 2016
Disaggregation, security, software licensing all part of challenges Cisco faces.
Is it time to control cloud sprawl?
“Organisations are increasingly subject to ‘grey IT’..."
As businesses reshape digitally, how will data centres react?
Cybersecurity, cloud and fog computing, and sustainability spark new archetype trends in the data centre landscape.
Region posts highest vendor server revenue as HP maintains market share
From a regional standpoint, Asia/Pacific posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 25.4 percent.
Cisco stays clear of HP and Juniper as ethernet switch market growth flattens
“Overall revenue and port shipment growth rebounded somewhat in 3Q15..."
Market maturity ahead as software-defined networking nears $10 billion spend mark
“SDN will become a substantial contributor to the overall network infrastructure market."
Tablet transition continues as Windows grows and Apple turns around iPad line
“We're witnessing a real market transition as end users shift their demand towards detachables..."
Why outsourcing can optimise hybrid IT innovation
“In today’s intensely competitive business environment, re-focusing IT resources on innovation is critical.'
