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After plenty of hype, 2016 looks to be the year IoT moves mainstream for many industries, but demonstrating a ROI is still a challenge.

Brocade has launched what it says is the industry's first Gen 6 fibre channel switches for storage networking, featuring 100 million IOPs.

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

Agility and speed are key for IT leaders supporting marketing, says Gartner; predicts 2018 focus will remain elsewhere.

The majority of organisations are expected to increase spending on storage in 2016, with a focus on public cloud storage services.

After eight years of searching for, downloading and using smartphone apps, users are maturing in their usage behaviours.

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.

Analytics revolution looms as Gartner predicts a major shift in large organisations, with advanced algorithms driving competition.

Infrastructure-as-a-service is on a rapid trajectory this year with both Gartner and IDC forecasting rapid growth in overall public cloud spend.

Public cloud is strengthening its market hold with new figures showing infrastructure spend for public cloud increasing ahead of private cloud.

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

Leading cloud providers are investing many billions of dollars expanding their network of hyperscale data centers in order to cope with huge demand.

The data center infrastructure market in India is forecast to be worth US$2 billion in 2016 according to a report from industry analysts, Gartner.

Board-level marketers must upskill in data and technology to secure leadership positions, according to a study by Econsultancy and Oracle Marketing Cloud.

Two-thirds of enterprises failing to control their critical data, risking security breaches, says IDC research commissioned by Actifio.

Gartner warns of increased risk of failure in big data projects, stressing the need for best practices to secure business value.

Big data is becoming standard practice for businesses, with the vast majority of companies already investing or planning to invest in the technology.

The Apple Watch receives positive reactions from owners, threatening traditional watches and health monitors. -Research.