Intellectual Property (IP) theft, including industrial trade secrets, is one of the costliest security breaches costing the U.S. economy, which is between US$225 billion and US$600 billion annually. Most IP forms are stored as IP-rich data via digital mediums, including cloud platforms, servers, and laptops. ABI Research, a global technology intelligence firm, forecasts that manufacturing Internet of Things (IoT) connections will increase by a CAGR of 53% globally, significantly expanding the vector of attack to obtain IP-rich data.

International Data Corporation (IDC) announced its Future of Work predictions for 2023 and beyond. With global attention divided between many disruptors, the future of work is fraught with many unknowns, from where and how work will be done to how economic pressures will change job opportunities to how social, skills, and climate concerns will have a broad impact.

Gartner, Inc. highlighted the six trends that will have significant impact on infrastructure and operations (I&O) over the next 12 to 18 months. “The changes that I&O teams face are shifting views of how to purchase, deploy, and manage technology solutions for optimal business results,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner.

A new Parks Associates whitepaper, Optimizing Video, Enhancing Content Performance for OTT Success, reports that nearly half of OTT subscribers hop between services, outside of Netflix, multiple times over a 12-month period. The whitepaper, released in partnership with SymphonyAI Media, examines the current state of the competitive streaming video market and the benefits of implementing data-driven solutions able to handle today's complex revenue models.

The current macroeconomic and political global context has put increased pressure on 5G rollouts, slowing expectations for growth in the network security market compared to previous forecasts. Nonetheless, global technology intelligence firm ABI Research forecasts the market to continue a steady upward, albeit slowed, trajectory to reach US$9.2 billion by 2026.

International Data Corporation (IDC) announced its Future of Intelligence predictions for 2023 and beyond. IDC's enterprise intelligence benchmarking research shows that maturity in enterprise intelligence makes a material difference to business outcomes.

With more pressure to drive efficient growth during disruptive times, there are three trends that will impact CMOs in 2023, according to Gartner, Inc. “In order to meet the enterprise mandate of driving growth amid continued disruption, CMOs must act decisively to prioritize their investments and their strategy for the year ahead,” says Ewan McIntyre, chief of research in the Gartner Marketing practice.

Consumer virtual reality (VR) will be worth $6.9bn in 2022, increasing to $20bn in 2027, according to Omdia’s Consumer VR Headset and Content Revenue Forecast 2022-2027. In the face of macroeconomic challenges, the market continues to expand, with 12.5 million headsets expected to be sold in 2022, and $1.6bn spent on VR content.

The Internet of Things (IoT) MVNO market is comprised of a broad range of companies, from disruptive startups to established players, with firms of varying sizes and geographic scopes. Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research predicts that growth in the IoT MVNO market will see participants’ total revenues exceed US$2.5 billion annually by 2026, representing a five-year CAGR of 18.5% since 2021.

A cloud strategy is a concise viewpoint on the role of cloud computing in the organization. However, business and IT leaders continue to make 10 common mistakes when crafting their cloud strategy, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts are discussing how to enable and exploit cloud, and demonstrate value at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2022, which is taking place here through Tuesday.

Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay TV services will be nearly $1.6 trillion in 2022, representing a year-over-year increase of 1.9%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker.

Parks Associates’ recent consumer research finds that 83% of US internet households now subscribe to at least one OTT service, while 45% still subscribe to the traditional linear pay-TV service model. The firm’s new whitepaper, Engaging Next-Gen Video Viewers: Leveraging AI and ML, developed in partnership with FPT Software, addresses the increased use of video services, content preferences, discovery challenges, and the role of bundles.

More and more people are leaving cable and satellite television (TV) offerings behind and fully embracing streaming alternatives for their daily entertainment. However, the powerful legacy that TV left is undeniably shaping the future of streaming services. In fact, multiple streaming providers are turning their platforms into hybrid services that combine classic streaming with some characteristic aspects of traditional TV.

Cyberthreats and IT governance are top risk areas for internal auditors to address in their audit plans for 2023, according to Gartner, Inc. The Gartner 2023 Audit Plan Hot Spots Report identifies the top 12 risk focus areas for Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) to help them identify risks to their organizations and plan audit coverage for the coming year.

An exciting and fast-moving Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) market is on the horizon that will bring novel content types and usage scenarios. To support that, networks and connectivity technologies grow in pure bandwidth capabilities and Mixed Reality (XR)-friendly capabilities like latency, network handoff, and slicing. According to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, 30% of total augmented reality shipments, and 23% of VR shipments will include cellular connectivity by 2027.

Omdia’s latest Display long-term demand forecast tracker indicates that area demand for displays in 2023 will grow by 6.2% year-on-year (YoY). With softened inflation and slowing interest rate hikes, plummeting demand has bottomed out, thereby making way for a rebound to normalization in demand by the second half of 2023.

The workload driving the largest share of enterprise IT infrastructure spending in the first half of 2022 (1H22) was Structured Databases/Data Management, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Workloads.

CIOs and IT leaders must take action to accelerate time to value and drive top- and bottom-line financial impacts from digital investments, according to Gartner, Inc.’s annual global survey of CIOs and technology executives.

FOMO. Analysis paralysis. Content, content everywhere, but not a choice to pick. While we may truly be living in a golden age of exceptional content, the sheer volume of offerings spread out among a dizzying array of providers has created a new universally shared experience: selection frustration.

It is an emotion that is playing itself out on both the supply and demand side of the equation, according to Chris Ambrozic, vice president and general manager, Discovery for TiVo, a division of Xperi Inc.

The last two years accelerated Information Technology (IT) trends that were already underway: rapid increase in the adoption of cloud, multi-cloud, and internet of things (IoT); a smarter edge for use cases such as modern retail, healthcare, and manufacturing; and a distributed workforce, where employees can be anywhere. Software-defined (SD) WAN technology eliminates the traditional WAN connectivity challenges associated with distributed enterprise applications and IoT devices that held back this acceleration.