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The wearables market is booming, with Gartner projecting sales of 274.6 million devices in 2016, including USD $11.5 billion in smartwatch revenue alone.

The transition towards detachable tablets is in full swing, with Apple coming out on top as the clear winner above Microsoft and other PC vendors.

Analytics revolution looms as Gartner predicts a major shift in large organisations, with advanced algorithms driving competition.

Veeam ANZ soars with 20% revenue growth, eclipsing global enterprise rates, as its cloud and enterprise sectors in Australia and NZ thrive.

Infrastructure-as-a-service is on a rapid trajectory this year with both Gartner and IDC forecasting rapid growth in overall public cloud spend.

More devices will be shipping globally this year – but end-user spending will decline for the first time accordin.

The rush to digital transformation is creating a 'massive' wave of new investments in services to support the changes according to a new report.

Spending on cloud IT infrastructure will grow from 28% of overall spending on enterprise IT infrastructure in 2014 to 32.9% in 2015.

Public cloud is strengthening its market hold with new figures showing infrastructure spend for public cloud increasing ahead of private cloud.

The PC market continued its downward trajectory in 2015, with mobiles, tablets and Windows 10 contributing to the decline.

Splunk has come out tops in a new report on enterprise SIEM, but the report also shows significant obstacles are hampering the SIEM promise.

A market transition is seeing detachable tablets booming, the iPad Pro experiencing a turnaround, and Windows gaining tablet traction.

Agility, technology and data are impacting demand for digital strategic services, which is set to become $97 billion worldwide opportunity by 2019.

After languishing in single digit market share for several years, Windows is finally making a move in the tablet space.

Huawei has continued its smartphone charge, recording the highest sales growth in Q3, while Microsoft phone share dropped and Windows did too.

Board-level marketers must upskill in data and technology to secure leadership positions, according to a study by Econsultancy and Oracle Marketing Cloud.

A new partnership between Cisco and Ericsson to create 'the networks of the future' has been dubbed an 'aggressive move' - but one with big rewards.

Two-thirds of enterprises failing to control their critical data, risking security breaches, says IDC research commissioned by Actifio.

Gartner warns of increased risk of failure in big data projects, stressing the need for best practices to secure business value.