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Gartner's Schlegel highlights the need for skill over software in the evolving landscape of Business Intelligence success strategies.

Resellers take note: the devil is in the detail for the IoT and its success will rest on managing identities and access.

Despite CIOs claiming security as a priority, IDC reveals a startling gap between their concerns and actions in New Zealand.

Although the frequency of a cybersecurity attack on a large scale is low, by 2018, 40% of large enterprises will have formal plans in place.

The concomitant move towards bigger screens in smartphone handsets may be about to throw a further spanner in the works.

Android and iOS are continuing to move toward total domination of the worldwide smartphone market following results from 2014.

As the secondhand smartphone market surges to £14 billion, vendors must strategise for the growing appetite for refurbished tech.

According to IDC the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) market will surpass the $1 billion mark by 2018 in the APEJ region alone.

Frost and Sullivan has identified 'mega trends' that will support unified communications (UC) market growth in the APAC region.

Samsung's struggles continue as low-cost vendors are quickly proving that mid- to high-priced Android tablets simply aren't cut out for today's tablet market.

Emerging UC players set to shake up the New Zealand market, challenging giants like Microsoft and Cisco with fresher cloud-based solutions.

Nutanix crowned by IDC as top dog in hyperconverged solutions, commanding a hefty 52% market share in H1 2014.

Worldwide IT spending on the rise and is set to be $3.8 trillion by 2015, according to Gartner, with the amount spent on devices forecast to be the mo.

Growth in Asia/Pacific's cloud services, including NZ, set to hit $7.4B in 2015, driven by intra-region integration and tech advancements.

Lifesize has released two new icon video systems as well as updates to the Lifesize Cloud service, and has recently received a Frost and Sullivan award.

The Internet of Things (IoT) could transform retail, providing such access to in-store analytics and enabling interactive consumer engagement.

Server shipments are growing, spurred on by hyperscale data centre expansion and the forthcoming demise of Windows Server 2003 support.

Where is tech heading in 2015? IDC offers up some predictions for the year ahead - and the third platform is the key player across them all.

Smartphone market growth slows as cheaper models thrive, with IDC forecasting a shift towards value amid plunging prices and maturing markets.

Expect a sharp decline in tablet sales in 2024 as iPad shipments drop for the first time ever, echoing a wider market slowdown.