Pedro Hernandez

Good news for IT job seekers. Those hours spent behind a PlayStation controller weren’t wasted after all. Apart from the IT skills listed on a resume or LinkedIn profile, businesses looking to fill technology positions are also paying attention to the hobbies of job candidates. The staffing specialists at Robert Half Technology recently polled more […]

Businesses are increasingly migrating their IT workloads to the cloud, benefiting hyperscale cloud operators the most, finds a new study from Synergy Research Group. Currently, there are 24 cloud operators that fit the bill, according to the technology analyst firm. In general, a hyperscale cloud providers have a broad data center footprint, each with 45 […]

Corporate wellness programs have helped make Fitbits and other health-monitoring wearables a familiar sight in the workplace. Soon, an expanding ecosystem of augmented- and virtual-reality (AR/VR) business solutions will make smart eyewear and headsets much more common in the office, according to a recent forecast from Grand View Research. The market research and consulting company […]

Gartner has revised its Worldwide IT Spending Forecast downward to reflect the status of the American dollar and significant shifts in the market’s dynamics. IT spending is anticipated to reach $3.46 trillion in 2017, a 1.4 percent increase. Previously, the research firm predicted that spending would rise 2.7 percent. Part of the reason Gartner amended […]

Cloud providers turned their attention to their networks last year, increasing spending on gear that enables data center operators to deliver faster, more reliable services. In total, the cloud IT infrastructure market — defined as server, storage and Ethernet switches by IDC — generated $32.6 billion in sales last year, an annual increase of 9.2 […]

Worldwide spending on mobile phones will reach nearly $399.5 billion this year, a 4.3-percent increase, as shoppers make more room in their budgets for premium devices, according to Gartner’s latest analysis of the device market. Caught in this phone upgrade cycle, buyers will spend over $423 billion by 2019, predicts the research firm. “The increased […]

Cisco, with a dominating lead in sales of on-premises solutions, was the top vendor in the overall collaboration technology market in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016, according to the latest data from Synergy Research Group. In total, the market attracted just over $9 billion in revenue during the quarter. Microsoft took second place while […]

Digital transformation is not only modernizing business processes and workstyles, it’s also leading to an increase in security spending. In its latest edition of its Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide, IDC forecast that the global market for security hardware systems, software and services will total $81.7 billion this year, an 8.2-percent increase over 2016. By […]

Samsung today gathered the New York City area media at Lincoln Center today to officially launch the company’s latest flagship Android phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+. The devices herald a “new era of smartphone design,” said DJ Koh, president of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business, during his keynote address here in Manhattan today. Uttering his […]

March has been a busy month for Intel’s storage division. Last week, the chipmaker launched its DC P4800X, an Optane-based PCIe solid-state drive (SSD) for servers. Optane is a memory architecture intended to bridge the performance gap between storage and DRAM. In the case of the DC P4800X, it provides 375GB of capacity that appears […]