Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015

Gartner has highlighted the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2015. They cover three themes: the merging of the real and virtual worlds, the advent of intelligence everywhere, and the impact of the rise of the digital business.

IT: solid as a rock, but still fluid

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium – IT has to tread the fine line between innovating in a digital business environment and remaining solid and reliable. Jeffrey Mann, research vice-president of Gartner, says being rock solid is the core of the...

Nexus of forces shapes the digital business

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium – Mobile, cloud, social and information has reshaped IT forever, and this nexus of forces has given rise to the digital business. This is where the virtual and physical worlds come together via the Internet of Things,...

Time to seize the African opportunity

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium – Digital business is as relevant in Africa as anywhere. Rene Jacobs, MD of Gartner Africa, says that digital business ushering an unprecedented convergence of people, business and technology creating new revenue...

Gartner names Check Point as UTM leader

Check Point Software Technologies, a leader in securing the Internet, recently announced that it is again positioned as a Leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (UTM). This is the fourth consecutive year that Check Point has been named...