There is a rising emphasis on modernizing shared services and the cloud to drive down costs and be more effective in most government agencies. Organizations are building integrated data platforms to bring in data and become the system of record or another read/write type of data repository to manage data and break down existing silos.

The EMEA external storage systems market value was up 4.5% year on year in dollars but down 4.3% in euros in 2021Q1, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. Once again, the exchange rate played a key role in making the year-on-year comparison more favorable when looking at it in dollars rather than euros.

The majority of IT organizations in mid- to large-sized organizations are now using a complex combination of on-prem hardware and software and cloud-based enterprise services that are constantly evolving in response to the introduction of new technologies and changing business requirements.

Growth factors in the augmented reality space will propel the market forward. According to new research by ABI Research, nearly 28 million augmented and mixed reality smart glasses will ship in 2026. The growth and demand are spread across both enterprise and consumer, with gradual but steady enterprise demand meeting with accelerating consumer activity in the next few years.

Frost & Sullivan finds that autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) promote commercial unmanned aerial system (UAS) adoption and associated market growth globally. Autonomous flight reduces workforce costs, whereas AI-driven data collection and processing shorten the time it takes to produce results, directly impacting decision-making. The global commercial UAS platform market is expected to reach $22.28 billion by 2025.

The worldwide semiconductor shortage will persist through 2021, and is expected to recover to normal levels by the second quarter of 2022. The chip shortage started primarily with devices, such as power management, display devices and microcontrollers, fabricated on legacy nodes at 8-inch foundry fabs, which have a limited supply. The shortage has now extended to other devices, and there are capacity constraints and shortages for substrates, wire bonding, passives, materials, and testing, all of which are parts of the supply chain beyond chip fabs.

Despite the apparent recovery from the effects of the pandemic, about 22% of North American public companies were not financially or operationally stable at the end of Q12021. Of these companies, 20% were stressed, meaning underperforming industry peers or experiencing pressure from internal or external sources, and 2% were distressed, meaning having trouble meeting financial obligations or experiencing severe operational challenges.

While most organizations continue to spend more hours on their SOX compliance activities year-over-year, digital leaders have reported experiencing a lesser impact of increasing hours, which suggests they are gaining advantages through greater use of technology (including automation) in the SOX compliance process. 51% of survey respondents utilized technology tools in the testing of controls for their fiscal year, marking a yearly increase of 5%.

O-RAN ALLIANCE aims to reshape Radio Access Network (RAN) deployment toward more intelligent, virtualized, and multi-vendor interposable strategies. RAN RIC will disrupt the status quo and create new opportunities for a wider ecosystem to join this segment of the market by helping operators save Total Cost Ownership and users optimized Quality of Experience . Analysts expect the trend of standard RIC deployment to dominate the market around 2024 and 2025.

The top 35 cloud and colocation service providers opened 10 million square feet of data center capacity in 2H20 according to Omdia’s latest Cloud & Colocation Data Center Building Tracker, despite lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 51% of the new capacity was brought online by colocation service providers and 48% by cloud service providers.

While corporate and consumer businesses remain popular marks for cyberattacks, critical infrastructure facilities have become increasingly viable threat targets. They are highly vulnerable to major operational disruptions. Despite critical infrastructure organizations remaining far behind where they should be in cyber maturity, the cybersecurity market is estimated to reach $24.22 billion by 2030.

The majority of IT organizations in mid- to large-sized organizations are now using a complex combination of services that are constantly evolving in response to the introduction of new technologies and changing business requirements. Optimizing data management across hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure environments is increasingly recognized as a critical area of competency.

5G mobile device models are becoming more diverse and being brought to market more quickly at a wide variety of price points, accelerating affordability and adoption. The mobile market is quickly transitioning to 5G and many leading OEMs are pushing ever-deeper into the lower-priced 5G smartphone segment. The race is on for OEMs to find that all-important level of differentiation to help boost margins and market share.

Research firm Parks Associates finds that 16% of US broadband households report that home network problems have disrupted their work-at-home activities during COVID-19 and that 37% are interested in a service that monitors network traffic and devices on the network for malicious behavior.

In these unprecedented times, television’s prominence as a link to the outside world has strengthened, becoming the primary source of entertainment for many. Inevitably, households became a battleground for the big screen. Viewers have been spending significantly more money last year on new TVs, additional sets and extra audio equipment to optimise viewing experiences, as well as keeping family members at peace.

The COVID-19 pandemic had caused lockdown in all markets throughout 2020, and it had helped to create opportunities for many consumer technologies – especially gaming-related devices (PCs and Monitors). According to IDC, the gaming PC market (Desktops and Notebooks) and monitor market in the APeJ region posted a 12.3% year-over-year (YoY) increase in 2020 – reaching 21.7M units.

The goal of deep tech is to offer breakthrough innovations to address sweeping problems like climate change. A new article by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Hello Tomorrow, “Meeting the Challenges of Deep Tech Investing,” notes that there are already unicorns in the field. There’s potential to accelerate this growth if a new investor model can be built.

The paths to success with SAP depend greatly on specific circumstances and market dynamics of an enterprise. This is causing organizations to develop agile, future-proof SAP strategies. A recent IDC survey revealed 96% of organizations that had already embarked on application modernization initiatives — or plan to do so in the next 18 months — expect their long-term IT strategy to be affected by the events of 2020, with cloud playing a more pivotal role in the future of their deployments.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that threats posed by the proliferation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), frictionless borders, and integrated border stations will expand this industry worldwide. Segmented into three categories—critical national infrastructure (CNI), public safety, and border security—this market is estimated to garner $230.79 billion in revenues by 2030.