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Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Decline 0.5% in 2016
Apr 11, 2016Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5% over 2015 spending of US$3.5 trillion, according to Gartner. This is down from last quarter's forecast of 0.5% growth. The change in the forecast is ...
Tags: device market, printers
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Middle East and Africa Is Forecast to Reach $3.47 Billion,a 4.1 Percent Increase From 2013
Mar 14, 2014IT infrastructure spending, comprising storage, server, and enterprise networking equipment, in the Middle East and Africa is forecast to reach $3.47 billion, a 4.1 percent increase from 2013, according to Gartner. Gartner says IT ...
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RSA,The Security Division of EMC,Yesterday Hosted Its Security Summit
Feb 13, 2014RSA, the security division of EMC, yesterday hosted its Security Summit, a one day security conference in Dubai aimed at helping organisations address evolving, complex and sensitive security challenges. The Summit, held at the Jumeirah ...
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70% of CIOS Plan to Change Their Relationships Over The Next Two to Three Years
Jan 17, 2014Seventy percent of CIOs plan to change their relationships with technology providers and outsourcing partners over the next two to three years, according to a Gartner survey. The Gartner Executive Program Survey of 2,339 CIOs worldwide ...
Tags: Change Suppliers, Flat budgets
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Most CIOs Do Not Feel Prepared for This Next Era,According to a Global Survey
Jan 17, 2014Digitalisation – the third era of enterprise IT – has begun, but most CIOs do not feel prepared for this next era, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner. The survey shows many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of ...
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CIOs Will Spend 4.5 Percent More on It Products and Services This Year
Jan 16, 2014CIOs at midmarket and large companies in Europe and the U.S. will spend 4.5 percent more on IT products and services this year than in 2013 as they focus their budget priorities on cloud computing, ERP and analytics software. That’s ...
Tags: IT budget, cloud computing
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DELL Has Opened Its Dubai Solution Centre to Help Customers
Jan 16, 2014Dell has opened its Dubai Solution Centre to help customers in the EMEA Emerging region explore, test and deploy end-to-end solutions. The 330 square metre facility consists of a data centre, customer meeting rooms and labs. The new ...
Tags: Dell, cloud computing
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Worldwide IT Spending Is Projected to Total $3.8 Trillion in 2014
Jan 9, 2014Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.1 percent increase from 2013 spending of $3.7 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. In 2013, the market experienced flat growth, growing 0.4 ...
Tags: IT spending, mobile phones
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Avnet Will Offer a Wide Portfolio of Flash-Based Hardware and Software Solutions
Dec 26, 2013SanDisk Corporation and Avnet, Inc. have announced that Avnet will offer a wide portfolio of flash-based hardware and software solutions from SanDisk to its customers throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia ...
Tags: SanDisk, consumer electronics
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Investments in ICT Are Expect to Increase in 2014 in Africa
Dec 26, 2013Investments in ICT are expect to increase in 2014 in Africa as both public and private spending rises and local content businesses partner with larger operators and tech companies, according to IDC. Adoption of data analytics and cloud ...
Tags: ICT Investment, Africa Market
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Arbor Networks' 2013 Research of DDoS Activity in The Middle East Has Revealed
Dec 11, 2013Arbor Networks' 2013 research of DDoS activity in the Middle East has revealed that the average size of attacks in the region is 2.376Gbps and the average duration of an attack exceeds an hour and ten minutes. Mahmoud Samy, Area Head, ...
Tags: middle east, Arbor, network, attack
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The Majority of Today's CIOs See Value in Mobilising Enterprise Applications
Dec 10, 2013The majority of today’s CIOs see value in mobilising enterprise applications and in deploying mobile-related innovations such as GPS features, location-based services (LBS), mobile payments and QR codes. Many also say their ...
Tags: mobile-related, CIO
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Mobile Technology Is Increasing The Complexity,Usage and Costs of Mainframe Applications
Dec 9, 2013Mobile technology is increasing the complexity, usage and costs of mainframe applications, according to 350 international CIOs. A survey conducted by Compuware research shows that companies are subsequently finding it more difficult to ...
Tags: application, CIO
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Global Cloud Traffic Will More Than Quadruple,From 1.2 Zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB
Nov 29, 2013Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, Cloud Computing, Forecast
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252 CIOs and 405 CMOs Remains Far Removed From Marketing
Nov 25, 2013An Accenture survey of 252 CIOs and 405 CMOs shows that, despite IT’s years of work toward business alignment, it remains far removed from marketing. Apparently, more IT executives care about the IT-marketing relationship than ...
Tags: CIOs, CMOS, IT-marketing
