Global smartphone sales totalled 366.2 million units in the second quarter of 2017, a 6.7 percent increase over the second …
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Only 1% of global CIOs have deployed blockchain technology: study
Only one percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organisations, according to Gartner's 2018 CIO Survey. The study also found that only eight percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain.0 2979
Transformation Talk | Weekly news roundup 24.08.17
Tahawul Tech brings you Transformation Talk, a weekly roundup of the biggest news in the technology industry.
Top technologies for security in 2017
Gartner has highlighted the top technologies for information security and their implications for security organisations in 2017. “In 2017, the …
Global spending on IT security products to hit $86.4bn in 2017
Gartner forecasts fast growth in the security testing market, with spending expected to grow to $93 billion in 2018, due to continued data breaches and growing demands for application security testing as part of DevOps.
Gartner identifies ‘megatrend’ trio to shape next decade
Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2017 report has named three distinct megatrends that the firm says will enable businesses …
A mind of its own: The potential for IT automation in the enterprise
How should CIOs go about implementing automation strategies into their business models, and what will this impending age of automation mean for current employees?
Telcos are willing to pay more for 5G: Gartner
The survey found that almost half the respondents intend to use 5G to access videos and fixed wireless capabilities. More interestingly, though, the majority of respondents (57 percent) believe that their organisation’s main intention is to use 5G to drive Internet of Things (IoT) communication.
Gartner: AI will be in almost every software product by 2020
Gartner analysts have revealed they believe that by 2020, AI technologies will be virtually pervasive in almost every new software …
Gartner: Worldwide IT spend to grow 2.4 percent in 2017
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.5 trillion in 2017, a 2.4 percent increase from 2016, according to Gartner. …
Gartner: Worldwide PC shipments declined 4.3% in Q2 2017
Gartner’s preliminary results revealed that worldwide PC shipments totaled 61.1 million units in the second quarter of 2017, a 4.3 …