U.S. Demand for Computer Science Education

There is a great and unmet need for computer science education in schools so that students learn the skills necessary to excel in their future workplaces. All stakeholders express a desire for more and better computer science learning opportunities, suggesting that expanded programs could help prepare today’s students for the future economy.

via Gallup

Worldwide IT Security Spend will Reach $174.7 Billion

Enterprise spending on IT security products and services has experienced new growth in 2020, as many organizations invest in solutions to meet the needs of a much larger remote workforce, and a wide range of online security threats that create additional requirements.

via Digital Lifescapes

Developers: Driving the Future of Digital Innovation

“The transition to becoming a digital innovation factory includes the four so-called pillars of digital innovation –– planning, sourcing, developing and distributing. For developers, the first three roles are well understood and are part of normal operations they conduct.”

via IDC

More Enterprises Deploy Hybrid IT for Cost Optimization

Desktop as a service (DaaS) is expected to have the most significant growth in 2020, increasing 95.4 percent to $1.2 billion. DaaS offers an inexpensive option for enterprises that are supporting the surge of remote workers and their need to securely access enterprise applications from multiple devices and locations.

via Digital Lifescapes

Communications-Platform-as-a-Service Market Upside

CPaaS platforms provide a centralized management service for outbound communications including short message services (SMS), over-the-top (OTT) business messaging, rich communication services (RCS) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) services.

via Digital Lifescapes

What CEOs Didn’t Talk About During the Pandemic

“There is a widespread belief that COVID-19 is accelerating legacy software applications and other enterprise workloads moving to the cloud. Our keyword analysis, however, does not show a meaningful increase in CEOs that discussed the topic throughout Q2 2020.”

via IoT Analytics

Hybrid Multi-cloud: Why IT Coexistence Strategy Prevails

For the full year, investments in cloud IT infrastructure will surpass spending on non-cloud infrastructure and reach $69.5 billion or 54.2 percent of the overall IT infrastructure spend. “The most effective ‘well-architected framework’ is open, to enable customer choice.”

via Digital Lifescapes

Global VR and AR Revenue will Reach $67 Billion

Global Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) revenue will grow from over $13 billion this year to more than $67 billion by 2024. Today’s AR/VR market is evolving beyond offering point solutions to specific problems, to becoming a fully functioning ecosystem.

via Digi-Capital

How Digital Twins and Digital Threads Work Together

More than 70% of survey respondents rate digital twins as an important strategic initiative. By 2023, 65% of global manufacturers will have realized savings of 10% in operational expenses. This comes from digital twins driven by IoT and machine learning.

via IDC

7 Ways Fintech Disrupted The Banking Status Quo

Financial-technology companies are changing the face of finance. Over the past ten years, disruption in the payments space has expanded to every corner of finance. Even areas once assumed to be safe are seeing new entrants and competitive threats.

via McKinsey