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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 3078
Big data to create 1.9M IT jobs in U.S. by 2015, says Gartner
There were a lot of reasons for Gartner researchers to give a gloomy economic outlook at its Symposium/ITxpo conference here, …
Lenovo to open first US manufacturing plant for PCs, tablets
Lenovo has announced it will open its first computer manufacturing plant in the U.S., where it will make laptops, PCs …
Alarm bells for hyped OpenStack project
A scathing report about OpenStack from research firm Gartner warns businesses to beware of considerable hype and says misconceptions about the open source cloud …
AP BPO industry to be worth US$9.5 billion by 2016
The Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) business process outsourcing (BPO) market could be worth US$9.5 billion in 2016, up from US$5.9 …
Gartner: Microsoft’s ‘big gamble’ with Windows 8 won’t pay off
Gartner analysts have dubbed Microsoft’s Windows 8 as a “big gamble” that will see the operating system peak at just …
mCommerce opens revenue lines for enterprises, says SAP
Mobile commerce (mCommerce) adoption is growing among businesses both globally and locally as it opens new revenue lines, says SAP. …
Gartner: Cloud to grow 20% this year to $109B market
The cloud computing market will grow almost 20% this year to become a $109 billion industry, research firm Gartner predicts, with business …
Worldwide security spending will approach $86B in 2016
Worldwide spending on security is expected to touch the $60 billion mark in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion …
Gartner: BYOD heralds biggest economic shift in computing since PCs
Bring your own device (BYOD) programmes have provided the most radical shift in the economics of client computing for …