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Unified Communications

Avaya named as a 'Leader' in IDC UC&C global vendor report

The report also offered advice to companies that are intending to implement, change or expand their UC&C environment.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Mon, 14th Aug 2017

IT Automation

Managed services and the art of differentiation

Differentiation is the name of the game for MSPs as the market becomes mainstream and commoditisation rears its head. But how do you differentiate?.

By Heather Wright • 6 min read • Mon, 14th Aug 2017

Wearables

Vendors moving up and down the ranks in mixed bag wearable band market

Apple has fallen to third place in the market, overtaken by both Xiaomi and Fitbit - despite the latter experiencing a 34% year-on-year decline.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 11th Aug 2017

Identity and Access Management

Cybersecurity firm Centrify hits 'major sales milestone'

Cybersecurity firm Centrify has hit what it calls a 'major milestone' across the 2016-2017 financial year by achieving US$100 million in sales.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Aug 2017

Marketing Technologies

The low-code platform allowing all developers to build secure, scalable apps

OutSystems revolutionises app creation, enabling any developer to build secure, enterprise-level mobile applications with ease.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Aug 2017

Disaster Recovery

Gartner names Veritas a Leader in data centre backup and recovery solutions

Veritas crowned a leader yet again in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for backup and recovery, bolstering their data management dominance.

By Patrick Martlew • 2 min read • Mon, 7th Aug 2017

Virtualisation

Veeam enterprise push gains further strength with Magic Quadrant leadership ranking

Veeam's enterprise push has received another boost, with the vendor a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Mon, 7th Aug 2017

Smart Cities

New Zealand big winner in IDC Smart Cities Asia Pacific awards

New Zealand has claimed four out of 14 IDC Smart City Asia Pacific Awards, edging out Singapore to the most wins.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Mon, 7th Aug 2017

Lenovo

Tablet market continues downward spiral in second quarter of 2017

Despite the turmoil within the market, 3 of the top 5 vendors actually managed to increase their shares of the market and grow on an annual basis.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 5th Aug 2017

Apple

Slight decline in smartphone market for Q2 2017 to be short-lived

New research from IDC has revealed the smartphone market declined slightly in the second quarter of 2017 – but this is expected to soon change.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Fri, 4th Aug 2017

Analyst report

Sluggish Chinese smartphone market to get boost from new launches

Huawei is continuing to hold top spot in China's smartphone market, closely followed by Oppo and Vivo. But what lies ahead for the market?.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Thu, 3rd Aug 2017

Semiconductors

Semiconductor spend ramps up on back of 'aggressive' investment

Worldwide semiconductor spend is forecast to see strong increases over 2017 driven by aggressive investment in memory and leading-edge logic.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 3rd Aug 2017

Distributed Denial of Service

Frost & Sullivan names Arbor APAC Anti-DDos Vendor of the Year

According to Arbor's ATLAS system, which monitors global web traffic, Australia has been targeted by a staggering 81,000 attacks year to date in 2017.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Tue, 1st Aug 2017