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  IN PICTURES: Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2015 Part 2 - Networking Reception (+46 photos)

  With half of the conference out of the way, attendees took some time out from the busy two day schedule to enjoy food and drinks from some of Sydney’s finest providores and merchants.

  IN PICTURES: Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2015 Part 2 - Networking Reception (+46 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2015 - Solutions Showcase Part 1 (+60 Photos)

  This year’s Gartner security summit was all about facilitating productivity in the face of increasing security concerns. Over 25 vendors and distributors had a presence at the solutions showcase where partners and end users alike were able to get a taste of what is new and renewed in the security space.

  IN PICTURES: Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2015 - Solutions Showcase Part 1 (+60 Photos)
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  In Pictures: Top Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service vendors

  Choosing the right Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider is growing increasingly difficult in a highly competitive market. Here are the top IaaS players identified by Gartner and their recommended use cases.

  In Pictures: Top Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service vendors

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News about Gartner

• Enterprise AI usage to more than double by 2020

  Recommendations and process automation top priorities

• Australian IT spending hits $93.8 billion

  IT services forms bulk of expenditure at $34.3 billion

• RPA market ‘small, but growing fast’ in Australia

  Large vendors now partnering with or acquiring RPA software providers

• Australian companies spent $2.3 billion on CRM in 2018

  Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft make up top five vendors globally

• Australia smartphone sales slump amid global decline

  Huawei overtakes Apple in second spot for global sales

• Google Cloud closes gap on AWS and Azure dominance: Gartner

  Alibaba poses formidable challenger

Interviews about Gartner

• Examining all the vendor conferences, great and small

  Gartner analyst Craig Roth assesses whether large or small conferences hit the mark

• Why it’s time to drop the term VAR

  Lines between resellers and service providers have become blurred

• Gearing your business to close IoT deals

  It’s time for businesses to up their game in sales enablement to succeed in the hyper-crowded Internet of Things market

• ​How the channel can help big companies learn start-up techniques

  Traditional organisations need to look to start-ups to compete in the digital world.

• ​Understanding the Brexit impact on IT…

  IT leaders and vendors should take these steps to stay ahead in the wake of the UK’s vote to exit the EU.

• ​As Xerox files for divorce, what does split mean for the channel?

  Tech giant Xerox has revealed plans to spin off into two multi-billion dollar companies, but as the separation date nears, what does the split mean ...

Features about Gartner

• ​iPhone sales decline for first time as Samsung hangs onto smartphone crown

  “For Samsung to stop falling sales of premium smartphones, it needs to introduce new flagship smartphones that can compete with iPhones."

• ​Region posts highest vendor server revenue as HP maintains market share

  From a regional standpoint, Asia/Pacific posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 25.4 percent.

• ​Time for market leaders to reassess as tablet purchase patterns emerge

  “Unless new compelling innovation or incentives to upgrade tablets are created, the churn of the mature installed base will continue to fall."

• ​INSIGHT: The mediocrity of a 360 degree view

  “A good test of your level of customer service is what happens when something goes wrong.”

• Server market grows as HP holds off Lenovo charge

  “The second quarter year-over-year growth for 2015 slowed compared with the annual growth of the first quarter of the year."

• Windows 10 fragmentation? What fragmentation?

  There will be different branches and builds, but it will still be better than today's situation with multiple OS versions being used, most analysts agree.