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Productivity and teamwork are both significantly improved when employees can choose where they work, a global survey (commissioned by Polycom) of anywhere working trends has found. The survey has revealed the main

Industrie 4.0 has been underway for more than five years, and while many businesses have begun some promising Industrie 4.0 projects, key challenges remain that are making algorithms the heartbeat of these

Enterprises are transforming their security spending strategy in 2017, moving away from prevention-only approaches to focus more on detection and response, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide spending on information security is expected

The U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council and the Trade and Commercial Office of the U.A.E. Embassy in Washington, D.C. have released a report titled “The Entrepreneurial Emirates: The U.A.E.’s Startup Ecosystem and Opportunities for U.S. Investors.”

With the cloud driving Middle East digital transformation, the UAE and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will spend a combined USD 14 billion on IT in 2017, according to IDC. In particular, security

IT spending by banking and securities firms in the Middle East and North Africa is forecast to grow to $12.4 billion in 2017, a 3.5 percent increase from 2016, according to Gartner.

Gartner forecasts that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016 and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Total spending on endpoints and services

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) internet of things (IoT) market is forecast to defy the region’s moderate economic outlook by growing 19.6% year on year in 2017 to total $7.8 billion,