Research Director stories - Page 40

Gartner has published its annual list of leading supply chains in Asia Pacific with ten regional companies making the list.

Despite a market slowdown, IDC reveals a global hunger for tablets with a projected 6.5% growth, driven by strong demand in emerging markets.

Vendor management programs are evolving to capitalize on the value and innovation offered by vendors, while mitigating risks.

Software-defined networking (SDN) continues to gain ground within the broader enterprise and cloud service provider markets for data centre networking.

Flash-based storage continues to move from being an expensive niche technology targeted at a few workloads to a more mainstream technology.

Gartner warns against the data lake hype, highlighting risks from lack of governance to security concerns in the information management sphere.

Tablet market grows 11% in Q2 2014, but faces challenges as new players challenge Apple and Samsung's dominance.

Semiconductor revenue is set to reach $336bn in 2014, up 6.7% from 2013, thanks to growth in many chip types and applications.

Global PC market set to contract by only 2.9% in 2014, with a relative revival due to business upgrades and replacements.

Over the last few years, we have seen an increasing number of high profile government IT projects end in spectacular failure.

New Zealand security software spending rose 11.7% in 2013, beating the worldwide market increase of 4.9%, according to Gartner.

Global external disk storage market sees a 5.2% dip to $5.6bn in Q1 2014, with high-end demand plummeting by -25%, reveals IDC.

Worldwide software market forecasted to grow 5.9% in 2014, driven by Big Data and analytics and enterprise applications - IDC.

Government agencies around the world are facing pressure to cut IT budgets and services, according to a survey by Gartner.

CEOs lagging in understanding of digital business, with few mentioning it in annual reports. Organizations over-optimistic about achieving business change.

Post-M&A, companies must engage broadly to keep sales momentum, says Gartner, highlighting proactive strategies to prevent competitive disruption.

Informa Telecoms and Media Research and Ovum have announced plans to merge and become the world's largest telecoms industry research firm.

Despite a decline in PC sales, Gartner forecasts a 6.9% growth in device shipments in 2014, driven by mobiles and tablets.

Worldwide sales of tablets to end users reached 195.4 million units in 2013, a 68 percent increase on 2012, according to Gartner.

3D bioprinting's rapid advancement reignites ethics and control debates, as the printing of organs and tissue nears reality.