Technology has fundamentally altered the workplace in recent years, and the pace of this change will accelerate further during 2020, says Cubic Consulting.

Those who have started the journey with workflow automation will expand their efforts while some businesses who have yet to begin will get to work.

Extensive research shows the ways that emerging technologies will change the way we live and work in the next decade.

The GIV predicts technology trends up until 2025, including 5G coverage, AI deployment, home robot adoption, and smart assistant use rates.

“Many areas of wireless innovation will involve immature technologies, such as 5G and millimetre wave, and may require skills that organisations currently don’t possess."

Security teams and solutions will have to contend with synergistic threats, increasingly backed by artificial intelligence to avoid detection.

For millennial home buyers, a generation for whom technology has been ever-present, smart systems are the features they value above everything else.

“Despite uncertainty fueled by recession rumours, Brexit, trade wars and tariffs, the likely scenario for IT spending in 2019 is growth.”

Digital Realty's Rod Glover says there will be five main evolutions to the world of data centres, colocation, cloud, and connectivity.

Carbon Black chief cybersecurity officer Tom Kellermann combines his thoughts with those of Carbon Black's threat analysts and security strategists.

“Our borderless world provides unprecedented freedom and convenience, but also breeds a whole new set of cybersecurity risks and concerns.”

Two BMC software executives share their predictions for their areas of expertise - DevOps and employee experience.

LogRhythm’s predictions paint a sombre picture for the state of cybersecurity in 2019.

Experimentation with new technologies will boom in 2019, as cloud services make advanced tools more accessible.

While organisations have become more aware of the significant risks posed by cyber-attacks, hackers have continued to up the ante.

Cybercriminals have been moving towards a ‘gig economy’ – an underground community of malicious actors exchanging services.

While passwords may change, physical biometrics are genetic and specific to each person.

Australian businesses have been forecast to spend almost $5.6 billion on public cloud services in 2019.

It is certainly the season for predictions and so without further ado, here are some insights from Ensighten CEO Ian Woolley

Global IT services company Avanade has released what it sees as the three most important technology focus areas for workplaces in the coming year.

As time progresses and advanced technologies are implemented, the demand for disaster recovery-as-a-service is also expected to increase.

“With nearly half of all businesses experiencing an unrecoverable data event in the last three years, current backup solutions are no longer fit for purpose."

Security needs to move away from the traditional approach of chasing after arbitrary forms of malware.

The company has shared what it believes are the five data centre optimisation trends that will maximise data centre performance in 2019.