Digital Lifescapes

Enterprise CIOs and CTOs continue to explore the use cases and business applications for cloud edge computing. Moreover, CEOs and CFOs continue to fund IT digital transformation initiatives that support new growth and increased profitability. Worldwide spending on edge computing will reach $208 billion in 2023 -- that's an increase of 13.1 percent over 2022. Spending on hardware, software, and services for edge solutions will sustain this pace of growth through 2026 when new investment is forecast to reach $317 billion, according to the latest global market study by International Data Corporation (IDC). Edge Computing Market Development IDC defines edge as the technology-related actions that are performed outside of the centralized data center, where the edge is the intermediary between the connected endpoints and the core IT environment. The cloud computing edge is distributed, software-defined, and flexible. The value of edge is the movement of computing resources to the physical...

It's likely that the global COVID-19 pandemic will impact parts of the legacy enterprise networking sector, as fewer employees at the more progressive companies return to a headquarters office campus, branch office, or other traditional workplaces. However, some IT networking sectors continue to grow. Revenues in the enterprise segment of the wireless local area networking (WLAN) market grew at 24.6 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21). In the consumer-class WLAN market, revenues increased 11.7 percent in the quarter, giving the combined enterprise and consumer WLAN markets year-over-year growth of 16.7 percent in 1Q21, according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC). Wireless LAN Market Development The 24.6 percent growth in the enterprise-class segment of the market builds on a strong end of the year in 2020, with fourth-quarter 2020 revenues increasing 10.3 percent year over year. Combined, two strong quarters in a row indicate ...

Enterprise IT security leaders need to protect endpoint devices from cyber attacks. Moreover, they want to offer effective and secure remote access for employees who are now working from home. Besides, this demand will continue to grow as more organizations embrace flexible working models.  According to the latest worldwide market study by Gartner, two trends will have a transformational impact on global businesses within the next 10 years. Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC) security will reach mainstream adoption in the next two to five years, while it will take five to 10 years for mainstream adoption of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). "Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was little interest in BYOPC," said Rob Smith, senior research director at Gartner . "At the start of the pandemic, organizations simply had no other alternative." Endpoint Security App Market Development The urgent need to enable employees to work from home and a lack of available hardware b...