Halted production of new content, along with a dramatic increase of consumer demand for video entertainment throughout the COVID-19 crisis, has placed unprecedented demands on the content libraries of broadcasters and streaming providers. As content owners mine their inventory of episodic series and movies produced decades ago, they are exploring how to up-convert content to meet the elevated viewing standards of today’s consumers.

Everest Group reports the year 2020 and Q1 2021 produced a seven-fold surge in retail and institutional investments in cryptocurrencies and related crypto assets, driven by increased investor demand, pandemic-fostered digitalization and clarity in regulatory tenets. The cryptocurrency market hovered around $2 trillion through April 2021 and is projected to reach $24 trillion by 2027. Traditional banks are realizing digital assets are the future of money.

The next wave of Internet of Things (IoT) analytics development will fully converge with the Big Data domain. Simultaneously, the value in the technology stack is shifting beyond the hardware and middleware to analytics and value-added services, such as Machine-Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). ML and AI services are estimated to grow within the IoT domain at a CAGR of nearly 40%, reaching US$3.6 billion in 2026.

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.2 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.6% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. As many companies still suffer revenue declines, IT spending is accelerating ahead of revenue expectations. As many companies still suffer revenue declines, IT spending is accelerating ahead of revenue expectations. Boards and CEOs are much more willing to invest in technology that has a clear tie to business outcomes, and less so for everything else.

Frost & Sullivan finds that the global automotive aftermarket will gather momentum this year as a slowdown in new vehicle sales due to the impact of COVID-19 and aging vehicle parc will create more opportunities in the aftermarket space. The market is estimated to garner $478.8 billion by 2025 from $362.21 billion in 2020.

Digital transformation (DX) is one of the trends shaping the enterprise world and driving the investments organizations are making to modernize their IT infrastructures and processes. Migration to service-based IT is one of the significant elements of DX initiatives as it enables organizations to utilize IT more efficiently for achieving business goals, pursuing new opportunities, and enhancing customer experience.

Research by Gartner shows that disruption-shaping organizations are likely to experience less than one-third of disruptions than their peers. Chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) must strategically reduce the rate of disruption to their supply chains by reducing their surface areas in the near future. Supply chain surface areas are the sum of all products, processes and networks that compose the supply chain today and represent touchpoints that risk events can have with the supply chain.

China is at the forefront of connected vehicle technologies due to the region’s distinctive consumer behavior with a desire for high-tech vehicles and decisive government action in developing a solid local Internet of Vehicle (IoV) industry. According to ABI Research, a global tech market advisory firm, close to 50% of all new vehicles sold in China in 2021 will have connectivity, and the penetration rate will increase to nearly 80% by 2025.

trategy Analytics forecasts global consumer spending in 2021 on smart home products and services will break through the $100 billion mark after falling short in 2020 due to the pandemic. he market will continue grow to $173 billion in 2025 when nearly 20% of all households globally have at least one smart home product in use up from 15% by the end of 2021. Security systems are driving growth in the US and in Western Europe surveillance cameras, smart bulbs and electrical devices are driving smart home adoption.

70% of global technology buyers are exploring more ways to purchase technology this year, however vendor engagement strategies continue to underdeliver when it comes to meeting tech buyer expectations, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Four marketing clusters of technology buying enterprises base key behaviors that influence GTM tactics. As the size of buying teams continues to increase, ideal customer profiles (ICPs) increase in importance.

Businesses that leverage mainframe investments while developing a modernization roadmap have better outcomes than those that move off them. These were the conclusions of a 2021 IDC study that analyzed businesses across the globe to measure the efficacy of migrating to the cloud compared to modernizing existing mainframe systems. Replatforming, the researchers found, can be riskier and more costly than modernizing existing investments.

Personal tracking devices, specifically, devices to track children, the elderly, and pets, are becoming increasingly popular within the consumer IoT tracking market. Those three segments alone are forecasted to collectively reach an installed base of 68 million by 2026, up from the 2021 installed base of 16 million.

By the end of 2021, 51% of all knowledge workers worldwide are expected to be working remotely, up from 27% of knowledge workers in 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner also estimates that remote workers will represent 32% of all employees worldwide by the end of 2021. This is up from 17% of employees in 2019. Gartner defines knowledge workers are those who are involved in knowledge-intensive occupations, such as writers, accountants, or engineers.

ABI Research analysts report that digital factory revenue will approach US$24 billion in 2030, with spending by CPG manufacturers on data and analytics services forecasted to reach US$4 billion in 2030, up from US$500 million in 2021. Companies are utilizing analytics to anticipate customer demand and optimize their processes for the future of consumer packaged goods (CPG).

By the end of 2021, 80% of enterprises are expected to put mechanisms in place to shift to cloud-centric infrastructure and applications. By 2024, approximately 64% of infrastructure spending will revolve around investments in cloud and infrastructure technologies. Success will hinge on the architecture strategies that effectively guide the cloud migration process.

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.