Android continues to gain momentum while Apple’s market share has declined slightly year-on-year.
The latest statistics for smartphones have been released by research firm IDC, and the unsurprising news is that Android is still top of the mobile OS tree by a long way.
Almost 60 per cent of companies in Western Europe cited security as a major concern when it comes to backing up data in the cloud.
Larger percentages of hardware funds are being spent on the cloud than ever before and it’s expected to reach some 22 per cent of all spending by 2018.
Market intelligence firm IDC has claimed that the UK’s government cloud procurement framework G-Cloud is “ahead of the curve.”
Global spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will rise 17 per cent in the next four years, a new prediction by the market watchers suggests.
This figure takes into account all known areas of the market, including system shipments, infrastructure, applications, platforms, security, analytics and their associated costs.
IDC says manufacturers are significantly transforming their product and service lines to cater for the next wave of connected devices.
While some businesses saw an increase in revenue of more than £6 million, others struggle mining big data archives, a new study has shown.
Analyst group IDC has claimed that rising healthcare costs will see many hospitals seek to develop a data-driven digital hospital strategy requiring budget in 2016.
That's a global splashing of the cash to the tune of $53bn - £35bn - by the way.
Mark Morley, Director for Manufacturing at OpenText, looks at how the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to become one of the most disruptive technologies to impact digital networks.
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That represents a drop of 3 per cent over the last five years, and that's in contrast to the global average which is up considerably.
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