In the wake of COVID-19, cities and municipalities increasingly find themselves cash-strapped, having overspent during the pandemic on various services such as policing and healthcare. At the same time, they need to finance the deployment of new technologies such as digital twins, robotics, and connected infrastructure to make their cities more resilient.

Malware and ransomware attacks have achieved an unprecedented level of ubiquity across organizations of all sizes and industries. A Spring of 2021 survey conducted by analysts at IDC revealed that 95.1% of organizations had suffered a malicious attack within the past 12 months, and 36.6% of respondents have suffered more than 25 attacks during that time.

Investments in technologies focused on the customer are rapidly becoming a top priority for customer service and support (CSS) leaders, according to Gartner, Inc. In two years, valuable technologies will revolve around the customer, through digital self-service platforms and understanding customer behavior through analytics.

As the commercial gaming market continues to expand, a growing number of products will become useful to the defense industry and military customers. Analysis of the defense training and simulation (T&S) market finds that game engines are one of the most significant uses of commercial gaming within defense.

Forecasts show that collectively there will be an installed base of 10 million worker and offender monitoring devices by 2026, according to a new report from global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. Areas of worker and offender monitoring include social work, construction and healthcare.

International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published a new forecast for the Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) markets, which includes revenue segmentation across IDC's 18 enterprise workload categories. The combined Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS market is forecast to have revenues of $400 billion in 2025 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.8% during the 2021-2025 forecast period.

The manufacturing process is fully automated in a lights-out environment, with minimal human intervention required to run day-to-day operations. Rapidly falling price of robots and continually increasing labor costs will accelerate manufacturers’ shift toward a lights-out setting in the upcoming years.

Driven by significant chip shortages, up to 1 billion payment cards are at risk of not being issued over an 18-month timeframe, with 347 million at risk in 2021 and up to 740 million in 2022. Supply cannot currently keep up with increasing demand and the payment cards industry is by no means immune from this situation.

A consensus has developed among global leading communications service providers (CSPs) that the B2B market is a major growth opportunity for 5G and many have been actively trialing 5G B2B services with a focus on vertical industrial applications.

Large organizations that have deployed SAP to underpin their most strategic operations are in the process of evaluating how this critical enterprise application will support accelerated technology modernization and business transformation initiatives. With the expiration date for support for ECC 6.0 now set for 2027, many executives have elected to pull the trigger on moving to S/4HANA, according to analysts at IDC.

A new analysis by ABI Research examines how the antenna market is evolving to address challenges specific to IoT. Increased radio complexity, device miniaturization, lower power consumption, and a complex certification landscape are among many factors making integration of antennas more difficult

Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities, accelerating growth across all segments in the public cloud services market, according to Gartner, Inc. The cloud has proven itself during times of uncertainty with its resiliency, scalability, flexibility, and speed. Hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments are growing and setting the stage for new distributed cloud models.

According to IDC, over 40% of the global population turned to remote work models in 2020. With the ebb and flow of the global pandemic in 2021, hybrid work models are enabling some people to return to on-site work while others continue to work remotely or move between remote and on-site work.

The Ray, a Georgia-based collaborative project focused on connected-vehicle infrastructure development along an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85, recently added an OEM partner that will help with the second phase of rollout. Dubbed a “green highway of the future,” The Ray is a partnership between state agencies, a family foundation and private companies that aims to advance autonomous vehicle testing.

India is expected to aggressively push toward electrification in the near future. Mega Trends such as rapid urbanization, rising fuel costs, traffic congestion, pollution, emerging economic growth, and energy security will drive EV adoption in the country in the next few years.

Attacks on OT – hardware and software that monitors or controls equipment, assets and processes – have become more common. By 2025, cyber attackers will have weaponized operational technology (OT) environments to successfully harm or kill humans, according to Gartner, Inc.

Hyperscale public cloud providers have experienced growth rates exceeding 30% for the past few years, and their appetite for enterprise IT spend remains insatiable. Everest Group predicts hyperscalers—namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure—will seize more of enterprise IT spend as the cloud services market accelerates to 24% compound annual growth rate through 2024.

Content creation has transformed thanks to the spread of distribution platforms that can spread its media, like social media and other forums. But within the last few years, certain areas of the content-creation market have set off exceptional ripples even for the larger digital revolution. For manufacturers of audio or video equipment, the question isn’t what they should expect these markets to do—it is how they should expect these markets to grow, and because of whom.

As organizations accelerate the implementation of business transformation and technology modernization initiatives, business leaders are exploring the impact these changes will have on enterprise content management and its associated workflows. A growing number of organizations are exploring the role that collaboration platforms can play in streamlining content management.

Confidence that quantum computers will solve major problems that are beyond the reach of traditional computers—a milestone known as quantum advantage—has grown fast in the past twelve months, according to a new report by BCG. Investors are moving aggressively to increase the amount they allocate to quantum computing, with two-thirds of all equity investments in the field coming since 2018.