Pedro Hernandez

Smartphone vendors followed a strong start to 2017 with a slight decline in the second quarter (Q2), according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker findings. The world’s device makers shipped 341.6 million smartphones in Q2, a 1.3 percent year-over-year decline and a 0.8 percent drop compared to the previous quarter. Notably, the world’s […]

According to industry forecasts, the Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be a major money-maker for IT vendors over the next several years. Today, with the launch of its Artik Cloud Monetization for the Internet of Things service, electronics giant Samsung is paving a path toward new business models that can help manufactures extract […]

Once again, Amazon Web Services (AWS) emerged as the top cloud infrastructure provider last quarter. Synergy Research Group’s latest analysis of the market for the second quarter (Q2) of 2017, which includes infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and hosted private cloud, revealed that Amazon remains comfortably atop the heap with a 34-percent share. Microsoft took second […]

Vendor lock-in is a fear that spreads into the cloud, according to a new hybrid cloud survey from Stratoscale, a cloud infrastructure startup known for help organizations to spin up Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions within the confines of their own data centers. Feeling trapped by one’s server, storage and software investments isn’t unique to […]

Iguazio, a big data analytics startup based in Herzliya, Israel, announced today that it had raised $33 million in a Series B round of financing headed by Pitango Venture Capital with additional backing from Verizon Ventures and Robert Bosch Venture Capital. Previous investors Dell Technologies Capital, Magma Venture Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners also participated. […]

Individually, they may lack the sheer power and influence of large corporations, but collectively, small and midsized businesses (SMBs) pack a lot of technology purchasing power. This year, the world’s SMBs will spend estimated $568 billion in IT products and services, predicts technology research firm IDC. By 2021, that figure will grow by over $100 […]

Security isn’t the only aspect of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments that enterprises are second-guessing. According to Defining IoT Business Models, a new report from Canonical, the software company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, device security and privacy (45 percent) falls behind quantifying the return of investment (ROI) of their IoT projects (53 percent) as […]

Resistance is futile. Artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly one of the hottest trends in tech today, and over the next few years, it will overtake the software industry, according to IT analyst firm Gartner. But first, it helps to come to grips with what the technology can and cannot do. “AI refers to systems that […]

The bigger they are, the higher they float? The world’s cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers will generate more than $200 billion in revenue in 2020, predicts a new forecast from Synergy Research Group. On its way to this lofty milestone, the industry is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of […]

Blockchain, the distributed database technology that help make digital currencies like Bitcoin possible, is more than an enabler of futuristic payment options. Over the next several years, it will help financial services firms slash costs by billions of dollars, according to a new report from BIS Research. In its forecast on the impact of blockchain […]