EMC and Veritas still well ahead of the pack according to analyst
Channel Research
GDPR? It’s all Greek to us say Britain’s SMEs
General Data Protection Regulation is not exactly floating the boat of small- and medium-sized firms
Grim outlook for PCs not helped by free Windows 10
Prolonged slump of PC shipments will get worse, despite falling sales of both tablets and smartphones
IDC: Global security appliance market shows good growth
Although firewall, content management and virtual private network segments see slump
IT buyers follow the tech trends but can’t deploy them
Capita and Cisco research outlines buyer frustration and confusion when it comes to nine emerging IT trends
Cloud and security are main IT spending areas this year
Toshiba research outlines the spending targets for the UK, France and Germany
Outsourcing in UK retail more than doubles
E-commerce and mobile help drive digital transformation strategies of retailers
CIOs complain of increasing IT support burden
Mixture of cloud, mobile and legacy IT support demands is keeping IT leaders awake at night
Vendors to ship 6.3m virtual reality headsets this year
China will take the lion's share of the market as local manufacturers battle the Taiwanese and Japanese
Projector market fails to see the light as sales tumble
Only India and China showing any real growth as other technologies challenge
Most firms don’t have a ‘full’ cloud strategy
Companies not coming up to the mark on multi and hybrid cloud strategies
iPhone and Samsung Galaxy launches fail to stop smartphone slump
Analyst reports reveal slowdown in global sales despite big-name releases in last quarter, with Chinese brands taking over
Let’s get digital says CBI as UK firms struggle to keep pace
Not much progress over the last 30 years then, according to research
Hybrid cloud and Internet of Things key to channel growth
Resellers open up on their growth hopes in Brocade research
Potential Office 365 customers crying out for channel help
Two thirds want a VAR or service provider to help them shows Barracuda research
IDC: Global PC shipments down 11.5 percent
There are some green shoots of recovery though, says the analyst
Hyperconverged platform market to shoot up says analyst
A 50 percent compound annual growth rate between 2015 and 2020 says TBR
IT services firms make Sunday Times 100 ‘most profitable’ list
Two MSPs are among those highly ranked
IDC: Big increase in cloud infrastructure sales for the year
HPE, Dell, Cisco and EMC all saw big revenue growth says the analyst
Windows XP is still running on a tenth of all desktops
Veteran software remains the third most popular version of Windows, despite support ending two years ago
World IT spending to slump in 2016 says Gartner
But there are still hotspots to take advantage of says the analyst house
Tablet market to ‘wane’ as users move to phablets
UK is still the biggest market in Europe though according to the latest research
British shoppers are being ripped off by mobile phone shops
Watchdog claims that shoppers are often paying more than double what they should for mobile phone contracts in the UK
IT channel remains bullish in the face of new competition
Canalys research shows optimism despite the maze of threats to resellers
Get ready for software-defined WANs says analyst IDC
SD-WAN revenues will exceed $6 billion in 2020 shows research
Cyber security budgets not keeping up with threat levels
Most firms are spending more but there is still a deficit say security pros
HPE ‘still leader’ in cloud infrastructure market
The leading vendors are fighting over a $60 billion market
Printer makers slash energy consumption to please Europe
EU self regulation is said to have worked say big 15
Two-thirds of enterprises to spend more on SDI this year
Software-defined networking and software-defined storage is big business says analyst 451
UK IT pros are cheapskates when it comes to flash storage
Price or performance? UK businesses think cost of flash is still a major factor in implementation as performance-savvy France and US pull ahead
