According to the company’s latest report, much of that growth will be driven by two types of devices: smart thermostats and smart speakers.More

The telecom cloud market in Asia Pacific (APAC) is a fierce one, but a new report purports NTT Communications to be the dominant player - for now.More

Opening a second data centre in Indonesia, a relatively small but growing IT economy, shows Alibaba is thinking strategically about its place in APAC.More

Blockchain may be the ‘missing link’ that could transform the electric power industry and leave traditional business models in the dust.More

Hyperscale cloud firms will fiercely target on-premises enterprise workloads in 2019, says GlobalData.More

The use of robots to eliminate mundane and repetitive tasks is helping retailers to cut costs without compromising service quality. More

According to GlobalData, the recent Optus deals with Origin and Sumo mean that communications services are on their way to becoming a utility.More

Alibaba Cloud has almost 50% of the infrastructure-as-a-service market share in China and its annual revenue grew 101% in FY18.More

The global smart meter market is riding a wave of popularity as issues such as energy use, aging infrastructure and rising emissions take their toll on traditional systems.More

Software-defined networking may be key to tackling security concerns about ever-increasing amounts of data in the enterprise space, says GlobalData.More

GlobalData technology analyst Siow Meng Soh offers his view on opportunities and challenges to the parties involved in the TPG-VHA merger.More

"The potential privacy implications which come with the advent of IoT are too alarming to ignore."More

GlobalData service director Brad Shimmin’s view on recent research on a global shift toward IT spending on AI, big data and IoT.More

Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle joined forces, pledging to speed up the progress of health data standards and interoperability.More

Alternative payments have overtaken traditional methods in the e-commerce market, including accounting for one-third of total payments in Australia.More

While cybersecurity has now become a critical business function, it remains a non-core competence for a significant number of boards.More

"Among the various enterprise network and communications, budget allocation upside is mainly in SD-WAN and network services.”More

Retailers including Amazon, Alibaba, Lowe’s and Tesco are developing their own AI solutions for automation, analytics and robotics.More

This includes implementing in-store technologies such as self-checkout counters, scan and pay mobile applications and unmanned stores.More

AR and VR technologies are reshaping the retail landscape by improving customer experience both in-store and online.More

GlobalData believes that it’s still early days for the LPWAN era, despite an increased uptake as mobile operators increasingly offer IoT connectivity.More

If companies fail to make artificial intelligence a core competency within the next five years, they will face either stagnation or elimination.More

"How this technology will be used and potentially adopted at scale will drive the required infrastructure investment."More

While blockchain technology will have lost much of its gloss by 2025, it will have found its way into the heart of many key business processes.More