New threats, new malware, new attacks, new chaos and new ways to fight back: A look back at Asia cybersecurity in 2016.

AWS is reinventing its Internet of Things (IoT) suite and addressing numerous shortcomings, with a one-year anniversary build-out of a suite of IoT.

Reporting financial results for the first time since merging Dell and EMC assets, Dell Technologies highlights its infrastructure-centric goals.

"Vendors will brand their capabilities and/or consulting approaches to distinguish their offerings with differing emerging technologies."

Workday continues prioritising top-line growth over profitability, which is paying off as the vendor had major 3Q16 signings in the U.S. and Europe.

"TBR believes HPE will remain the globe’s largest server vendor for the foreseeable future."

As more CSPs embrace open source solutions in their network and IT environments, Red Hat is poised to make further inroads.

The cloud brokerage market is reaching an inflection point, with pure plays being acquired and multilines building out their brokerage platforms.

"It has very farreaching ramifications for the industry that has been the catalyst for the economic change this electoral mandate seeks to remediate."

"Customers will diversify their service provider partners as a short-term solution," says TBR.

Through partnerships, Fujitsu extends its ability to host third-party applications, helping it capitalise on core data center presence.

"It allows CenturyLink to safeguard its cloud investments and drive international expansion more aggressively than the company was able to before."

VMware faces a critical period as it aims to ramp up revenue streams in its software-defined data center, EUC and hybrid cloud segments.

"Cloud providers were able to increase private cloud revenue, driven by enterprises shifting mission-critical applications to private clouds."

“The hype, the hope and the fear surrounding automation continue to raise questions about the future of IT service delivery."

Server, storage and networking hardware profits are slipping, in the wake of a ‘steady creep’ of virtualisation across data centers.

"Vendors like Nokia find themselves challenged to grow their top line and increasingly tested to drive margin increases."

The commercial Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is exploding and so are the cloud services that go with it, according to new research from TBR.

Huawei sees the cloud as the key enabler of digital transformation and is positioning to offer supporting software, hardware and services solutions.

Oracle’s industry expertise will remain valuable on premises, but it has the opportunity to support differentiation of cloud applications.

TBR developed a taxonomy for Internet of Things (IoT) use cases that can help vendors and potential IoT customers structure their IoT initiatives.

This almost creates a hybrid type of engagement for vendors, a cross between a true cloud engagement and a typical long-term outsourcing engagement.

It was a sad state of affairs for professional services in 2015, with vendors facing numerous challenges that led to revenue declines.

Vendors are looking at new technologies to drive long-term growth, including hyperconverged platforms, SDN and hybrid cloud solutions.