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NEWS UNIFIED COMMS FORTNIGHTLY REPORT
Global IT spend to hit almost £2.3 trillion
• Growth of UC triggers 3.2 per cent investment increase in information technology
By Pádraig McGarrigle Global IT spending
will
reach £2.29 trillion this year, according to analysts Gartner. The figure represents a jump of 3.2 per cent on the £2.2 trillion that was spent last year on IT devices, services and software in a year when spending grew by just 0.4 per cent. Enterprise software record the biggest
will increase,
rising 6.9 per cent to £193 billion from £180 billion in
Gordon: UC the major reason
2013. Gartner managing vice president Richard Gordon says a major reason for the increased
IT spending is
down to the growth of Unified Communications.
Key markets “The Nexus of Forces (the convergence of social, mobile, cloud and information) continues to drive growth across
key major software
markets, such as customer relationship management, database
management
Microsoft commits to driving growth independent of Windows
Microsoft has said that
downloads of its Office for iPad suite of apps were in excess of 12 million for the first week it appeared on the App Store. The individual apps for Word,
Excel and PowerPoint reached that figure according to a communication that appeared on
the number
Twitter feed. The total
of
company’s official also
included downloads a for
Microsoft’s cloud-based note taking app, OneNote. Analysts have praised Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella’s decision
to make Office available on platforms that compete with Windows – the service that still generates most of Microsoft’s revenues. “By making Office available on competing platforms the company
has committed
to driving its growth independently of Windows,” said CCS Insight vice-president of research Geoff Blaber. “In doing so Microsoft is demonstrating that its future lies in horizontal services in addition to vertically-integrated hardware. “Mr Nadella now faces
a tightrope act in balancing
systems [DBMS] data integration tools and data quality tools,” he said. “In
fact, organisational
adoption of data management technologies to support the Nexus will cause spending on DBMS to surpass operating systems, making the former the largest enterprise software market in 2014.”
The substitution of fixed- lines services being “slightly faster
than expected” is
given as the reason for slower growth in the telecom services
WhatsApp sets record with 64bn messages
Real-time messaging application WhatsApp has continued
eating into the
traditional mobile marketplace as it recently
processed 64
billion messages in a single 24-hour period. The company said that on
Office iPad: On all platforms
Microsoft’s horizontal vision with the Windows legacy and vertically-integrated approach set by his predecessors.”
Heartbleed bug cyber-crime threat forces Tor Project software update
A bug in software used by millions of web servers may have exposed any visitors to the sites to cyber-crime, according to internet privacy
provider, the Tor Project. The Heartbleed bug
found by
software was
researchers at
Google and Finnish firm Codenomicon to be present in OpenSSL software which is
supposed to protect data and is used in operating systems, email, IM and servers. The vulnerability
was
identified on the 1.01f version of the software, which was released on April 7, and the Tor Project said that anyone who required strong anonymity or privacy online “might want to stay away” for a few days.
A new version of the software, OpenSSL 1.01g was rushed out on the same day and system administrators were advised to update immediately.
The nature of the bug meant that companies were unable to determine if their servers were compromised and how many individual’s details were accessed.
April 2 it handled 20 billion sent messages and 44 billion received messages. The difference in sent and received is down to a number of people receiving the same communication. The figures show that the company’s phenomenal growth – which prompted Facebook to agree to pay up to $19 billion for it in January – is showing no sign of letting up. At the time the deal was agreed, WhatsApp chief executive officer Jan Koum said the company was processing 18 billion sent and 36 billion received messages every day.
WhatsApp will launch a voice calling service later this year, news that will worry operators who still drive most of their revenues from voice calling. Koum claims the voice calling functionality of the new app will use the lowest bandwidth of any that will be available.
segment than any other. It will grow just 1.3 per cent this year and will be worth around £1 trillion.
Second-largest IT services will see the second- largest growth, from £556 billion in 2013, to £581 billion this year.
The amount spent on
devices will also rise, 4.4 per cent to £416 billion, while £86 billion will be spent on data centre systems, an increase of 2.3 per cent over last year.
App stops staff wasting time on the internet
It is widely assumed that the best way to increase workplace productivity is to make the world more connected, but the developers of a desktop app think the opposite is true. “Productivity” app Webtrate, is adding new features which it claims will increase the user’s work rate by cutting access to the internet.
The company says its survey of 3,000 people shows that 62 per cent of individuals believe internet access can lead to procrastination and distract them from their work. Users can set a time from 0-24 hours for how long they want to block access to the internet and then choose from three options to get back online. The first allows them to reboot the computer to regain access while the second, more draconian option sees access totally blocked for the allotted time. A third option blocks access to selected websites in conjunction with one of the first two methods. The app costs £4.99 but its chances of success in a world where the internet can be accessed from any device are debatable.
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