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AWS continued to dominate the cloud infrastructure services market Q1 of 2016, leaving all its followers including Microsoft and Google in its wake.

Gartner is forecasting cloud IoT spend to hit US$348 million this year, and says cloud-based security services will be vital going forward.

Emerging cyber security technologies aim to protect industrial control systems, but current methods fall short, warns ABI Research, urging OT-focused solutions.

Microsoft is on the charge in the SaaS market and is now challenging for leadership in the growth market with Oracle and IBM also making a big play.

IBM and Oracle are losing out as they fail to capitalise on the booming PaaS market and concede share to specialists, open source and cloud providers.

Spend on server, storage and Ethernet switches for deployment in cloud environments is expected to increase by 18.9% this year.

Consider that the SaaS subscription enterprise deal has the potential to be the last negotiation of it's kind with any degree of buyer power.

Carbon Black has been named a 'clear leader in terms of both market share and revenue' by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).

BMC Software has upgraded its IT discovery and dependency mapping tool to help create optimised and more agile data centers.

Pure Storage wins 'leader' status in a new IDC report, with IDC noting the impact of all-flash arrays on the data center is now 'unquestionable'.

Unless organisations track and review privileged activity, they risk being blindsided by insider threats and errors that cause significant outages.

A quantitative, analytic and evidence-based approach is inhibited by the fact that people are predominantly emotional decision makers.

Splunk has come out tops in a new report on enterprise SIEM, but the report also shows significant obstacles are hampering the SIEM promise.

Hesitant consumers are prompting a 1% drop in global device shipments, with only mobile phones bucking the trend, Gartner reports.

The threats to mobile security have not changed, but the consequences have, warns Dionisio Zumerle, research director at Gartner.

Worldwide enterprise application spending is expected to rise, driven by modernisation, functional expansion and digital transformation projects.

WatchGuard's APT Blocker wins Frost & Sullivan's 2015 New Product Innovation Award, with F&S noting it is 'conducive to the unique needs of SMBs'.

Metadata is entering the mainstream of content management and search. ECM vendors now make metadata-driven functionality central to their platforms as.

The good news for resellers dealing in servers, storage and Ethernet switches for cloud IT infrastructure continues.

Hyperconverged infrastructure solutions are an opportunity for IT leaders to simplify the midmarket data centre, according to a new Gartner report.