In August 2010 the IETF was developing TRILL and LISP while Cisco and Juniper pushed FabricPath and Virtual Chassis. A look at the debate and how it played out.
In 2016, surveys from Microsoft, PwC and Strategy& showed Asian and global firms treating data as a strategic resource, while many lacked a strategy to use it.
In December 2017, vendors forecast that AI, IoT, blockchain, cloud and security would shape 2018 in Asia-Pacific IT. Here are their predictions and what later reports showed.
Predictions for cloud computing in 2019: hybrid cloud, Google Cloud, service mesh, serverless and open source deals, and what Forrester later said happened.
Enterprise software predictions for 2015 on hybrid cloud, subscription pricing, mobile CRM and in-memory ERP, and how the cloud and ERP market moved afterwards.
In 2018 Nutanix chief Dheeraj Pandey argued multi-cloud would hide behind virtualisation and called for HCI as a service. His argument, and his 2020 exit, in context.
In 2015 MasterCard partnered VAT IT on VAT Cloud, a cloud-based automated VAT recovery service for corporate card payments in Asia Pacific, covering 24 countries.
In 2018 Zscaler reached out to 111 companies in Singapore and Hong Kong on digital transformation, cloud and Office 365. Here are the survey’s main findings.
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.