More Channel Partners Focus on Cloud and Managed Services

Most business technology vendors are already in the process of revamping their traditional marketing organizations to better support their IT channel partners. The ongoing shift to a progressive digital marketing methodology has challenged many leaders, due to the difficulty in re-training their legacy employees.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Worldwide Smartphone Growth May Have Peaked in 2015

 

Vendors shipped a total of 334.9 million smartphones worldwide in the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16), up slightly from the 334.3 million units in 1Q15, marking the smallest year-over-year growth on record.

Source: IDC

Mobile IoT Technology Apps are Expanding in Healthcare Sector

Across the globe, wireless technology vendors and telecom service providers are assisting companies in the healthcare sector to develop new telecare system applications. The huge amounts of data that’s being created has fueled demand for cloud-based storage solutions.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Hyperscale Cloud has a Huge Impact on Vendor Strategy

According to the latest worldwide market study by Technology Business Research (TBR), Cloud as a Service revenue — which includes public and private cloud services — attained by the traditional telecom network operators, will reach almost $10 billion annually in 2019.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Global Networked Economy – The Fragmented Landscape

In a World Economic Forum white paper published earlier this year, three leading experts, including Vinton Cerf, widely regarded as the “father of the internet”, map out the fragmentation landscape, concluding with a top 10 list of forces to be watched.

Source: World Economic Forum

Ongoing Transition to Cloud Disrupts the Legacy Vendors

Last year was challenging for many traditional software vendors, particularly those that have been slow to embrace the shift to cloud services. Worldwide application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue totaled $23.9 billion in 2015 — that’s 0.1 percent growth from 2014, according to the latest study by Gartner.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

8.5 Million 5G Small Cells will be Deployed Worldwide by 2020

The next wave of mobile internet service adoption will be supported by fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies that form the foundation for many new applications, including numerous iterations of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Why Telecom Provider Cloud Services Must Evolve in 2016

Cloud as a Service revenue, which includes public and private cloud services, from telecom operators will reach almost $10 billion annually in 2019. Though carrier cloud providers will continue to increase revenue annually, growth will decelerate over the next several years.

Source: TBR

Video Game Industry Rebounds in First Quarter 2016

The games investment market was dominated by games tech, web games and console/PC games sectors, with the largest deals in Asia. Note, the previously dominant mobile games sector took under 10% of games investment in the first quarter, where it had taken around $4 of every $10 invested in games in previous years.

Source: Digi-Capital

Organizations in Asia-Pacific Adopt Big Data Analytics

Big Data and analytics-related services marketing will grow from $3.8 billion to $7.0 billion in 2019 at a 16.3% CAGR, driven by the growing demand for analytics-related systems integration and BPO services. Also, 53% in the Asia-Pacific region say Big Data and analytics is important.

Source: IDC