Analysis, Surveys and Predictions
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The Hacker News - Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware | Universities, small companies that have small security teams are an easy target. File sharing and an extensive database make the penetration simple for attackers. | Privacy & Security |
VentureBeat - ‘Antivirus is dead’: The rising enterprise security threats for 2021 and how to protect against them | Beyond vaccine development, nation-state actors also targeted enterprises across sectors for intellectual property (IP). | Privacy & Security |
Defence lists cyber mitigation as key factor for building ethical AI | In the report, participants have jointly created five key considerations -- trust, responsibility, governance, law, traceability -- that they believe are essential during the development of any ethical AI project. | Artificial Intelligence |
InfoWorld - 7 data science predictions for 2021 | After a trying 2020, signs point to data science becoming an enterprise-wide capability that impacts every line of business and functional department in the coming year. | Data Analytics |
World Economic Forum - The post-pandemic future of work - according to 3,000 CEOs from around the world | Agility, technology and regulation are key priorities for chief executives post-pandemic, IBM finds in its survey of 3,000 global CEOs. | Automation & Productivity |
NetworkWorld - Survey: Native SD-WAN monitoring tools are not enough | However, 91% of enterprises also monitor or plan to monitor their SD-WAN environments with a supplemental network monitoring tool, and 41% say third-party monitoring is essential to network operations. | Network Management |
Datanami - ibi Survey Reveals Acceleration of Data and Analytics Initiatives in 2021 | 44 percent of respondents plan to increase spending on data in 2021 and 38 percent will spend about the same as they did in 2020, totaling 82 percent investing as much or more in 2021. | Data Analytics |
Business 2 Community - 40+ Terrifying Cybersecurity Statistics You Need to Know for 2021 | These cybersecurity statistics from the last 5 years will outline contemporary cybersecurity trends and provide a preview of what is being predicted for the future of cybersecurity. | Privacy & Security |
CLAROTY BIANNUAL ICS RISK & VULNERABILITY REPORT: 2H 2020 | 76% of disclosed ICS vulnerabilities do not require authentication for exploitation. | Privacy & Security |
TechStartups - Top 10 startups that have already reached unicorn status this year — Expert provides insight into 2021 trends | After crunching the data, the team at Tipalti has identified 24 startups that have already reached unicorn status this year. They also provide insights into why and what we can expect this year for business investments… | Tech Trends |
VentureBeat - Canalys: Cloud infrastructure spending grew 32% to $39 billion in Q4 2020 | "This makes AWS larger than Salesforce.com and SAP combined. Equally impressive is that AWS delivered over half of the company’s operating profit.” | Cloud Computing |
VentureBeat - Case studies of successful AI startups | Out of the hundred startups, four have made exits, with three going public and one being acquired by Facebook. | Artificial Intelligence |
SiliconANGLE - These four key drivers will cause tech spending to roar back in 2021 | But hiring freezes and freezing new deployments continue to trend down. New IT deployments continue their uptick and layoffs continue to moderate. Hiring is also up. All good signs. | Tech Trends |
NetworkWorld - Study finds Google has the fastest overall cloud platform | Cockroach Labs ranks Google cloud tops for overall performance, Microsoft Azure for the best storage, and AWS for the best latency response. | Cloud Computing |
AiThority - Top Security Experts Provide Insights on National Data Privacy Day | "We need more voices in our debate, outside the legal community, and within and across businesses to make real change and do right by consumer privacy.” | Privacy & Security |
AiThority - Next Pathway Research: 65% of Companies Report Cloud Migration Is a Top Priority | Next Pathway polled nearly 1,000 IT decision makers on their company’s status in the cloud migration process and what they perceive as benefits and challenges. | Cloud Computing |
Data Storage Solutions Review - The 12 Best Public Cloud Storage Services for 2021 | Solutions Review’s listing of the best Public Cloud Storage Services is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd | Data Storage |
SiliconANGLE - Big shifts are coming in the new era of the distributed cloud | They discussed the role of third-party vendors in managing cloud complexity, the rise of specialized clouds, the evolving role of data and the way enterprises will need to make critical choices in the coming year. | Cloud Computing |
2021 is the year AR commerce becomes an Actual Reality | The study found that 63% of consumers believe AR will transform their shopping experience and 61% indicated that they would prefer to make purchases on sites that offer AR technology. | Augmented Realty |
CIODive - Gartner: Worldwide IT spend will recover to $3.9T in 2021 | The firm includes categories like communication services, devices, infrastructure software and security software within the remote work IT spend projection. | IT Management |
Forrester/Jay McBain - What I See Coming For The Channel: 2021 | Customer demand (especially medium, midmarket, public sector, and enterprise) later in the year shifted to automation, cloud acceleration, customer/employee experience, and e-commerce/marketplaces | Channel Trends |
AiThority - 50 Industry Specialists Make Predictions on the Role of Emerging Technologies in 2021 | The article features insights-driven predictions from the industry specialists who belong to the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning engineering, data science, business intelligence, cybersecurity, mobile automation, IoT automation, Cloud computing and storage. | Emerging Tech |
AiThority - Popular AR VR Tools of 2021 | In the COVID-19 era, AR and VR tools seem to be expanding at an incredible speed; from shopping to entertainment and gaming | AR/VR |
Esentire - 2021 Drops the Cyber from Cybercrime | Mark Stangster - But cybercrime isn’t going away--it’s only getting more ingrained | Privacy & Security |
DocuSign Alternatives: Review of Industry Popular 5 | DocuSign had been an industry leader for awhile. But what other popular alternatives to DocuSign are there? | Automation & Productivity |
ZDNet - AI set to replace humans in cybersecurity by 2030, says Trend Micro | The research was compiled from interviews with 500 IT directors and managers, CIOs and CTOs and does not look good for their career prospects. | Privacy & Security |
SiliconANGLE - Where’s cloud computing headed this year? The experts lay down their cards | Edge computing, vertical clouds, a profusion of multicloud options and the end of on-premises backup. | Cloud Computing |
Ericisson - My IoT predictions for 2021: Smarter tech will make better business | Among the IoT predictions ranging from digital healthcare, remote learning, connected manufacturing, and micro-mobility to sustainability, the common denominator is the overall accelerated adoption of wireless technologies. | IoT/Mobility |
SiliconANGLE - By 2025, the cloud will be the key driver of business innovation | Although some legacy IT such as wireless access points or mainframe computers will not move to the cloud, many other applications and workloads will be delivered via cloud, for example cloud servers, storage and networking. | Cloud Computing |
Top Challenges that CIOs Faced: Key Findings and Resolutions for 2021 | Even as the enterprises were trying to find ways to fend away growing cybersecurity concerns, a majority of the CIOs were finding it extremely hard to train IT staff (32%) against supporting the remote workforce (39%). | IT Management |
Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 | Distributed cloud, AI engineering, cybersecurity mesh and composable business drive some of the top trends for 2021. | Tech Trends |
TechNative - Smart Cities: Betting the Future of Public Safety in the Cloud | The foundations of these cities are 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) / cloud | Smart Cities |
M-Files - 6 Hot Take Information Management Trends in 2021 | According to Nitro, workers spend an average of 50% of their time creating and preparing documents. Yet, document issues account for more than 21% of daily productivity loss. | Automation & Productivity |
SiliconANGLE - Fast, fused and deep: CES sheds new light on 5G, AI, cybersecurity and digital currencies | At the start of a new year, the Consumer Electronics Show offers an opportunity to gaze at technology’s distant horizon and take measure of what may be coming over the ridge. | Tech Trends |
Gartner - 2 Megatrends Dominate the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2020 | While five new AI solutions enter this year’s Hype Cycle for AI, the democratization of AI and the industrialization of AI megatrends dominate the AI landscape in 2020 | Artificial Intelligence |
TechTarget - Enterprise data storage 2020 Products of the Year finalists | The field of entrants in our 19th annual Products of the Year contest has been reduced to 47 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze status in five data storage categories | Data Storage |
Blocks & Files - IT infrastructure budgets: Cloud up, On-Prem down | Spending on public cloud IT infrastructure increased 13.1 per cent year over year in 3Q20, reaching $13.3bn | Cloud Computing |
Cyberark - People, Process and Technology: Six Best Practices for Cloud Least Privilege | A recent ESG survey found that maintaining consistent identity and access management (IAM) controls across public and private clouds is the No. 1 challenge for IT and cybersecurity professionals charged with IAM tasks. | Privacy & Security |
Bright Pattern Notes Companies Taking New Innovative Approaches to CX Since the COVID-19 Pandemic | In line with recent research from McKinsey and IBM, Bright Pattern sees companies finding smarter ways to operate, increasing digital and mobile channel adoption | Automation & Productivity |
ZDNet - 2021 Technology trend review, part 1: Blockchain, Cloud, Open Source | Blockchain's DeFi-ning moment. Cloud, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Open source is winning, open source creators are losing. A reality check on key technological drivers for the new decade. | Tech Trends |
Forbes - A Cybersecurity Checklist For 2021: 6 Ways To Help You Protect Yourself In Coming Year | Learn: It all starts by having a risk management perspective. Learn what you need to do from open sources | Privacy & Security |
TechRepublic - 10 fastest-growing cybersecurity skills to learn in 2021 | People with experience in application development security are in the highest demand but cloud expertise commands the biggest paycheck. | Privacy & Security |
Forbes - Seven Data Management Trends You Can Leverage In 2021 | Yet only about 1 in every 4 companies can claim to have a well-defined data management policy and structure. | Data Analytics |
Top 7 DBP Predictions for 2021 | The DBP-Institute team brainstormed and came out with Top 7 Data and Analytics predictions for 2021! | Data Analytics |
DZone Cloud - Top Ten Technology Trends For 2021 | This article summarizes the top ten technology trends common across the reports of companies like Gartner, Forrester, Bain, and Deloitte. | Privacy & Security |
ZDNet - Blockchain in 2021 is a tale of two speeds | The pandemic has resulted in both acceleration and deceleration, depending on the type of blockchain project. Here are Forrester's five key predictions for 2021. | Blockchain |
Threatpost - 2021 Cybersecurity Trends: Bigger Budgets, Endpoint Emphasis and Cloud | Insider threats are redefined in 2021, the work-from-home trend will continue define the threat landscape and mobile endpoints become the attack vector of choice, according 2021 forecasts. | Privacy & Security |
Datanami - 2021 Big Data and AI Executive Survey | NewVantage Partners, strategic advisors in data-driven business transformation to Fortune 1000 companies and industry leaders, has released the results of its 9th annual survey of senior corporate c-executives | Data Analytics |
Legal Tech’s Predictions for Legal Technology Innovation in 2021 | Attorneys and legal technologists see 2021 pushing the trends brought on by remote work even further, with AI and analytics continuing to grab attention | Document Management |
The Financial Express - Tech trends in 2021 | Businesses in 2021 and beyond will develop into efficient workplaces for everybody who believes in the power of technology | Tech Trends |
Fierce Electronics - From sensors to smart cities, the biggest tech trends in 2021 and beyond | Smart Cities: Reaching an inflection point that will drive IoT commercialization | Smart Cities |
BBC News - Tech Trends in 2021 | Efforts are accelerating to curb the power of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google owner Alphabet. | Tech Trends |
Aithority - Crystal Gaze 2021: Predictions on the Role of Automation and Cloud Computing in Cyberthreat Intelligence | Next year we expect to see malware that not only spreads across networks but looks for signs that an infected device is for corporate use (such as evidence of VPN usage). | Privacy & Security |
Venturebeat - The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2021 | Apple’s IDFA change will hobble targeted advertising for iOS games | Gaming |
Silicon Angle - Predictions 2021: Here’s what’s coming in enterprise technology | The percentage of remote workers settles in at 34% by year-end 2021 – double pre-COVID levels | Tech Trends |
Geekwire - 2021 Predictions | 2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead | Tech Trends |
ZDNet - 2021 outlook: Here are the technologies, questions that will matter | Think labs, think prototyping and think innovating on the flow. Perhaps 2021 brings a more developed augmented and virtual reality playbook for enterprises. | Tech Trends |
Threatpost - Inbox Attacks: The Miserable Year (2020) That Was | Reflecting on 2020’s record-breaking year of spam and inbox threats. | Privacy & Security |
ZDNet - Data-driven 2021: Predictions for a new year in data, analytics and AI | Here's a roundup of many of the 2021 predictions, broken down into the topics that garnered the most conjecture. | Data Analytics |
The Enterprisers Project - 14 tech predictions for 2021 and beyond | IT and tech leaders look at the road ahead and predict what's next for remote work, AI, cybersecurity, and more | Tech Trends |
ZDNet - Five Microsoft technologies to watch in 2021 | MetaOS is meant to be a single mobile platform that provides a consistent set of work and play services across devices. | Automation & Productivity |
ZDNet - Automation nation: 9 robotics predictions for 2021 | The lessons of 2020 can help us read the tea leaves for the priorities and trends in the robotics sector in 2021. | Automation & Productivity |
Venturebeat - 9 trends in enterprise database technology | Now databases are changing. Their focus is shifting and they’re accepting more responsibilities and offering smarter answers. In short, they’re expanding and taking over more and more of the stack | Data Analytics |
ZDNet - 10 most 'disruptive' information technology jobs in the year ahead | Artificial intelligence, DevOps-related skills drawing the highest premium, analysis of almost two million job openings finds. | Tech Jobs |
Aithority - IBM Study: Majority of Surveyed Companies are Not Prepared for IT Needs of the Future, Say U.S. and U.K. Tech Leaders | Of those, many are moving at an aggressive pace — the study reveals that 53% of respondents are aggressively pursuing a public cloud strategy, 48% a hybrid cloud strategy and 45% a private cloud strategy. | Cloud Computing |
Forbes Cybersecurity Awards 2020: Corellium, The Tiny Startup Driving Apple Crazy | Our inaugural Forbes Cybersecurity Awards celebrate their achievements. | Privacy & Security |
ZDNet - Outsourcing in the 2020s: cloud and Covid shake up contracting | Cloud and automation 'now effectively table stakes for all transformations,' | Automation & Productivity |
Venturebeat - Here’s what the ‘new normal’ remote sales stack looks like | Close to nine in 10 decision makers now say these new commercial and go-to-market sales practices will be a fixture throughout 2021 and possibly beyond. | Automation & Productivity |
SiliconAngle - Gartner probes strengths and weaknesses of top cloud database players | As the Gartner reports highlight, the cloud database market is being driven by the need for transactional capabilities meshed with analytics. | Data Analytics |
SiliconAngle - Cloud momentum and CIO optimism point to a 4% rise in 2021 tech spending | In this Breaking Analysis we’ll share new spending data from our partners at Enterprise Technology Research and take a preliminary look at which sectors and companies are showing momentum heading into next year. | Cloud Computing |
Aithority - IAITAM 2021 FORECAST | The International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM), the leading authority on IT Asset Management (ITAM), is now looking ahead to what it expects in the new year of 2021. | Tech Trends |
Blocks and Files - Storageless storage is the ‘answer’ to Kubernetes data challenges | “I firmly believe that the move away from storage-bound data to storageless data will be one of the largest watershed events the tech industry has ever witnessed.” | Data Storage |
Cloud momentum and CIO optimism point to a 4% rise in 2021 tech spending | We now expect a 3% to 5% increase in 2021 technology spending, roughly double our previously forecasted growth rate. | Tech Trends |
Threatpost - Cloud is King: 9 Software Security Trends to Watch in 2021 | Researchers predict software security will continue to struggle to keep up with cloud and IoT in the new year. | Cloud Computing |
Forrester - Channel Software Tech Stack 2020 | The channel technology stack is a group of technologies that firms leverage to plan with, find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incentivize, cosell with, comarket with, manage, measure, and report on partners | Channel Strategy |
ZDNet - Forecast 2021: Artificial Intelligence during COVID and beyond | The pandemic has created an unusual opportunity for a technology aimed at efficiency and lean operations. | Artificial Intelligence |
Thinkers360 Predictions Series – 2021 Predictions for Quantum Computing | The 2021 Predictions for Quantum Computing are part of a series to provide actionable insights for business and technology executives. | Quantum Computing |
Deloitte: MLOps is about to take off in the enterprise | Deloitte Consulting published a report today that suggests a golden age of AI is in the offing, assuming organizations can implement and maintain a consistent approach to machine learning operations (MLOps) | Artificial Intelligence |
Most businesses are tracking customers yet don’t tell them | It discovered that three in five (62%) of businesses do not inform customers about third-party ad trackers collecting their data. | Privacy & Security |
ZDNet - AR Outlook: Why 2020 was prelude to hot 2021 AR sector | "In 2021, AR/VR will continue to remain important as society continues to focus on generating economic growth while avoiding health risks." | AR/VR |
5G laps 4G milestones, sets stage for massive enterprise data growth | In the last quarter alone, 29 new 5G networks went live, and the total number of networks is expected to grow to 180 worldwide by the end of 2020. | Telecom |
Sizing the AI software market: Not as big as investors expect but still $37 billion by 2025 | The velocity of demand for AI technology, tools, platforms, and applications draws parallels to the demand for cloud. | Artificial Intelligence |
SiliconAngle - As AWS storage revenue nears $10B, legacy players feel the heat | The storage business as we know it has changed forever. | Data Storage |
Help Net Security - More than half of organizations don’t have an insider risk response plan | “Our findings show that organizations are not even measuring the efficacy of their insider risk mitigation programs." | Privacy & Security |
Forbes - Bernard Marr | The 5 Biggest Cloud Computing Trends In 2021 | Cloud Computing |
ML Deployment Woes Persist | Still, 83 percent of organizations said they are pressing on with ML development, increasing budget and hiring more data scientists | Data Analytics |
ZDNet | Top 8 trends shaping digital transformation in 2021 | Digital Transformation |
StealthLabs | Top 10 Cybersecurity Trends in 2021 and Beyond! | Privacy & Security |
SWZD - The 2021 State of IT | The Annual Report on IT Budgets and Tech Trends | Tech Trends |
InformationWeek | Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021 | Data Analytics |
Security Boulevard | Top 10 Cyber Security Trends to Watch out for in 2021 | Privacy & Security |
Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 | Distributed cloud, AI engineering, cybersecurity mesh and composable business drive some of the top trends for 2021. | Tech Trends |
INDVSTRVS | Top Data Trends and Predictions for 2021 | Data Analytics |
Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020 | A trio of recent reports tracking software vulnerabilities over the past year underscore the challenges of patch management and keeping attacks at bay. | Privacy & Security |
Tale of the Tape 2020 is out now, and guess what – the future is rosy | The TSC report cites the annual tape media shipment report for 2019, released by the three LTO Program technology providers – HPE, IBM and Quantum | Data Storage |
Lack of Data On-boarding Solutions “Key Pain Point” Across Industries | Flatfile, the leading data on-boarding platform, today unveiled results from the first of its kind survey in a new report, “The State of Data On-boarding”. | Data Analytics |
Cloud, containers, AI and RPA will spur a strong tech spending rebound in 2021 | Recent survey data and discussions with C-level executives lead us to believe that 2021 could exceed our 2% growth forecast and that figure could be as high as 4% to 5% in the coming year. | Cloud Computing |
Smart streetlight market is 'ripe for consolidation': forecast | The study highlights opportunities in the coming decade for consolidation of the "extremely fragmented" vendor landscape, most of which is focused on software | Smart Cities |
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