Sophos has announced that it has once again been positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant of Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls).’
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Only 1% of global CIOs have deployed blockchain technology: study
Only one percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organisations, according to Gartner's 2018 CIO Survey. The study also found that only eight percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain.0 2784
Gartner: Top technologies for security in 2017
Gartner today highlighted the top technologies for information security and their implications for security organisations in 2017. Analysts presented their …
Gartner: Dell EMC only top server vendor to grow in Q1
In the first quarter of 2017, worldwide server revenue declined 4.5 percent year over year, while shipments fell 4.2 percent …
Gartner: Four vectors transforming security software market
The security software market is undergoing a dramatic transformation due to four key developments, according to Gartner, Inc. The use …
Prepare for the inevitable security incident
A serious security incident is a question of “when,” not “if”, says Rob McMillan, Research Director at Gartner. The 2014 cyber attack on …
Government firms spend 21% of IT budgets on digitalisation
Top-performing organisations in the private and public sectors spend, on average, 33 percent of their IT budgets on digital initiatives while government firms spend 21 percent.
Spending on consumer video media to hit $314bn in 2017
Global spending on consumer video media services will total $314 billion in 2017, seeing a 4.2 percent increase from 2016, according to the latest research by Gartner.
Chromebook shipments surge
In a slowing PC market, Chromebooks siphoned market share away from Windows PCs in 2016 as their popularity grew outside …
What it takes to be a successful chief data officer
The growing importance of the chief data officer reflects the central role of information in digital business, says Gartner’s research director Alan Duncan.
Gartner: Global IT spending to see marginal growth in 2017
According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending is expected to increase 1.4 percent in 2017. Despite this growth rate being down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 2.7 percent – due in part to the rising U.S. dollar – spending in this area is still predicted to reach $3.5 trillion in 2017.