Global IT spending to grow 1.1 percent in 2019

Global IT spending to grow 1.1 percent in 2019

By Gartner Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.79 trillion in 2019, an increase of 1.1 percent from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. Currency headwinds fueled by the strengthening U.S. dollar have caused us to revise our 2019 IT spending forecast down from the previous quarter, said John-David Lovelock, research […]

Email Security Market Booms as Cyberattacks Escalate and Organizations Move to Cloud

Email Security Market Booms as Cyberattacks Escalate and Organizations Move to Cloud

Santa Clara, Calif.  April 16, 2019  Email has become the channel of choice for delivering malware and malware-less attacks, and hackers have begun to employ social engineering techniques for deception and impersonation. The proliferation of user devices, a mix of device ownership models, always-connected work lifestyles and, above all, the use of cloud-based mailbox services […]

Nations Digitally Transform their Border Security Operations to Prevent Illegal Migration and Smuggling

Nations Digitally Transform their Border Security Operations to Prevent Illegal Migration and Smuggling

Frost & Sullivan Global instability due to terrorism and civil disruptions is leading to increased pressures among border and maritime security agencies to keep their borders safe from human, drugs, and weapons trafficking while streamlining operations to process genuine travelers. According to Frost & Sullivan?s recent analysis,?Global Border and Maritime Security Market, a high impetus […]

Solar Storage: Resilient Clean Energy Technology in India

ICTpost Energy Bureau India has targeted doubling its renewable energy capacity to 55,000 MW, from nearly 27,000. Renewables contribute about 12.5 percent of India’s energy, the report by the New and Renewable Energy Ministry shows. As coal and gas shortages and populist tariff regimes hobble the performance of thermal power stations, renewable energy players want […]

E-Pashu Chikitsa: An online system for veterinary tele-consultation through CSCs

Dr. Dinesh K. Tyagi, CEO-CSC SPV CSC e-Governance Services India Limited is the foremost institution in India to offer animal telemedicine facility (e-Pashu Chikitsa) through its last mile CSC network across the country. CSCs are now extending a helping hand to farmers and animal readers by providing tele-veterinary facility close to their place of residence. […]

CSCs can work as Rural Innovation Hub

By Dr. Dinesh K. Tyagi, CEO-CSC SPV CSCs have become an instrument of change, especially for empowering rural citizens through the use of digital technologies. With the support of present Government, CSCs are now influencing almost all walks of rural life and promoting a digitally inclusive society. The CSC entrepreneur is now well recognized, respected […]

Why m-Government in India

ICTpost Governance Bureau Mobile phones, can reach those areas where the infrastructure necessary for Internet services or wired phone services is difficult to setup. In the developing countries mobile government applications may become a key method for reaching citizens in far and wide areas and promoting exchange of communications. In such countries with insufficient conventional […]

Nearly 50 percent of PaaS offerings are now cloud-only

Nearly 50 percent of PaaS offerings are now cloud-only

By Gartner Nearly half of today’s platform as a service (PaaS) service offerings are cloud-only, according to Gartner, Inc. Currently, there are more than 360 vendors across 21 market segments, delivering more than 550 PaaS offerings. Forty-eight percent of these offerings are cloud-only. Not a single vendor has a foothold across all 21 segments, and […]