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Cisco, Sophos, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and ESET have been named Champions in Canalys' 2019 Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix, leading 15 top vendors.

People across the world love their smart speakers – and we have AI assistants like Amazon Alexa to thank for the revolution.

Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet, all with a strong focus on network security products, outperformed the market, recording strong double-digit growth.

Despite soaring to USD $37 billion in 2018, cybersecurity spend only constitutes 2% of total IT investments, Canalys reports.

Pockets of growth, both in segments and geography, will persist, particularly in Asia Pacific, one of two regions to avoid shipment declines in 2019.

Canalys analysts say the huge growth in cloud services will be of benefit to channel partners with a number of incentives.

A new report from Canalys has revealed what the world's two largest cloud providers have been up to – and they've certainly been busy.

Ongoing trade tensions between China and the US  are having a significant impact on the cloud service providers market.

While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.

With a 41% year on year growth, compared to Apple's 1%, Huawei is now second only to Samsung in the number of shipments this quarter.

AWS remains the top cloud infrastructure provider, but rival Microsoft Azure is growing faster and closing the market share gap, according to Canalys.

Apple saw a 30% YoY rise in Q2 2018 smartwatch shipments, driven by LTE model popularity in APAC. Yet, its market share dipped to 34%.

Google claims the top spot in the smart speaker market by shipping 3.2 million units in Q1 2018, surpassing Amazon's 2.5 million Echo shipments.

​Worldwide spending on cloud infrastructure services is continuing its rampant growth after surging 47% in 12 months.

Security-as-a-Service offerings surged in 2017 according to Canalys, but vendors like Symantec struggle to meet unpredictable investor expectations.

The value of global infrastructure shipments hit an all-time high last year with 3 vendors and the channel dominating, but direct sales are catching.

The worldwide cloud infrastructure services market grew 46% in Q4 2017 to reach $16bn, with Canalys predicting continued growth in 2018.

Apple ships 29 million iPhone Xs in Q4 2017, making it the world's top-selling smartphone model over the holidays.

​Canalys has released its latest predictions surrounding the global IT security market's performance over the third quarter in 2017.

The global cloud market surged 43% year-over-year in Q3 2017, reaching USD $14.4 billion, as Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Google cemented their dominance.