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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 2814
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UAE’s Ai Everything summit postponed over coronavirus concerns
One of the major AI summits in the region, Ai Everything, which is originally scheduled to take place from 10th to 11th March has been postponed, the organisers revealed on the event’s website.
Global IT spending to reach $3.9 trillion: Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.9 trillion in 2020, an increase of 3.4 percent from 2019, according to …
How to make smart security investments
Industry experts to discuss how IT and business leaders can use their resources more wisely.
Huawei smartphone sales soar despite US restrictions
Global sales of smartphones to end users continued to decline in the third quarter of 2019, contracting by 0.4 percent compared with the third quarter of 2018, according to Gartner.
Global public cloud services market to reach $266.4 billion
The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17 percent in 2020 to total $266.4 billion, up from $227.8 billion in 2019, according to Gartner.
How Infosysta is paving the way to agile transformation
Feras EL HAJJAR, Managing Director at Infosysta discusses how the company is helping the public and private sector adopt a …
Global IT spending to hit $3.7 trillion this year: report
Global IT spending will reach $3.7 trillion in 2019, an increase of 0.4 percent from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
Why the human factor plays a vital role in cybersecurity
At the sidelines of the recently held Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, Jeffrey Wheatman, research vice president, Gartner, sat down with Security Advisor ME to discuss the important role that the human factor plays in cybersecurity.
UAE gears up to secure a cloud-driven future
The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is working on cybersecurity policy for a cloud-based future, according to Eng Abdulrahman Almarzouqi, Director of Cybersecurity, TRA.