Pedro Hernandez

Worldwide spending on IT products will reach $2.1 trillion in 2017, a 4.5-percent increase over last year, predicts IDC. Taking telecommunication services into account, the overall information and communication technology (ICT) market will reach $3.5 trillion this year. Cloud providers are slated to increase their server spending by four percent this year and five percent […]

NTT Data, the IT services and consulting subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), has bigger ambitions for the healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) market than merely tracking and analyzing footsteps and heart rates. The company is using Hitoe, a wearable sensor material developed by mobile carrier NTT Docomo, and Toray Industries, […]

Cognitive computing and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) will soon become commonplace in the workplace, if CEOs have anything to say about it. IBM today released the results of a survey of 6,050 executives conducted by the its Institute for Business Value and Oxford Economics. The C-suite was well-represented, with participation from CEOs, CFOs, […]

It’s a good time to be Samsung and Apple, according to Gartner’s latest device market forecast. Even PC makers have reason to be optimistic, despite to mobile-obsessed marketplace. The analyst firm expects shipments of PCs, smartphones and tablets to remain essentially flat this year compared to 2016. Unit shipments will to surpass 2.326 billion by […]

The cloud’s insatiable appetite for faster servers, bigger storage and high-performance networking, is lifting the fortunes of many technology vendors. In fact, sales of cloud IT infrastructure now represents nearly two fifths of all IT spending, according to technology research firm IDC. During the first quarter (Q1) of 2017, vendors of cloud IT infrastructure – […]

There’s more to digital transformation than depositing mobile devices into employees’ hands and moving IT workloads to the cloud. The Internet of Things (IoT) is also proving vital in helping organizations get up to speed in the new, highly-competitive digital economy. Recently, market research firm Vanson Bourne surveyed 500 organizations, on behalf of London-based satellite […]

Folks need look no further than their wrists to see where the wearables market is headed. Vendors are expected to ship 125.5 million wearable devices this year, a 20-percent increase compared to 2016 (104.3 million), predicts IDC. By 2021, the analyst firm expects shipments to reach over 240 million. Basic watches and smartwatches, the latter […]

BlackBerry is readying its customers for the so-called “Enterprise of Things” era by adding new capabilities and enhancements to its mobile device and application management platform, Enterprise Mobility Suite. Gone are the days when IT departments only had to worry about managing a desktop or laptop PC. Today, that responsibility extends to smartphones, tablets, wearables […]

At the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and customer relationship management (CRM) software is economic opportunity for enterprises that seize it, according to a forecast from Salesforce and IDC. AI-enabled CRM to drive an additional $1.1 trillion in additional global business revenue by 2021, states their report. There’s also good news for folks who fear […]

It’s been a busy week for venture capital (VC) firms and the artificial intelligence (AI) companies they’re investing in. Leading the pack in the latter category is Element AI, a Montreal-based company that builds AI solutions for enterprises and helps them get up to speed. On June 14, the company announced it had raised a […]