Accenture’s Technology Vision 2017 named the workforce marketplace as a major trend, citing Automattic and freelance platforms. A look at its claims and findings.
In 2015, analysts and Oracle argued that converged unified communications suites, WebRTC and cloud delivery would replace desk phones and fragmented collaboration tools.
In 2015 Panzura chief executive Randy Chou listed eight requirements for cloud storage to replace NAS filers, from local caching to locking; here is the list.
How Seagate and Hikvision worked together from 2005 on a hard drive built for surveillance, leading to the 2006 SV35 and later SkyHawk drives, as described in 2015.
How Asia-Pacific security threats mixed long-standing risks with newer cyber-insecurity around 2012, based on regional policy research from Japan and CSIS.
In October 2017 Check Point and Qihoo 360 Netlab warned of Reaper, also called IoTroop, an IoT botnet that exploits device flaws rather than default passwords.
In 2018 CommScope argued that 5G and IoT, with Gartner’s forecast of 20 billion connected devices by 2020, would need far more fibre, edge sites and converged networks.
IDG’s 2018 cloud computing survey of 550 organisations found 73% already had cloud in place, security worries easing and SaaS set to grow. How later studies compare.
In its 2009 annual report to the SEC, Microsoft for the first time named Linux vendors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business, citing netbooks.