IT Services and Applications

Frost & Sullivan surveyed 313 Brazilian companies in order to understand their current and future ICT investments, drivers, restraints, and their perceptions about trends such as cloud computing and Big Data analytics.

The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solution market continued to gain greater traction among organizations in Asia-Pacific (APAC) during 2013, as it experienced a strong growth of 28.6% on a year-on-year (YoY) basis. Increased number of DDoS attacks on government agencies and organizations across countries in APAC, during 2013, resu...

The energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is on the verge of smart grid transformation. Smart metering remains the key focal point, and smart grid technologies are deployed in pilot projects. This study provides a market analysis of smart energy development in CEE and presents key characteristics of the fast growing IT market in the reg...

The connected car market is accelerating globally, driven by several trends such as telematics, navigation, and smartphone integration. This growing market has strong technological implications for various stakeholders in the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry. This research service provides an insight into the global connect...

The research service discusses the managed security services (MSS) market in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The current market size has been discussed and forecasts have been provided for the total market and for individual countries. The study covers the impact of new technologies such as cloud computing, vitalization, and other key...

In this Hot Topic, Frost & Sullivan identifies key areas across the retail sector where the benefits of technology are most acutely felt. It analyzes the key drivers and restraints for technology adoption by retailers and identifies major IT trends in the sector in Brazil, such as online commerce, social networks, RFID, analytics and omni channel i...

As new trends and technologies are being implemented and utilized by Latin American companies, new and complex vulnerabilities are becoming a reality. As such, MSS services are becoming increasingly important. Although budget for security is still a problem, as most companies are not able to gauge the return on investment (ROI) that investing in se...

The IT infrastructure outsourcing market in Latin America is becoming more mature. Companies are understanding the benefits of outsourcing, and focusing instead on the core business, reducing costs, thus, following the strategy to turn capital expenditure (CAPEX) into operational expenditure (OPEX), instead of investing money in expanding capacity,...

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to be one of the fastest-growing segments in the technology industry in Asia-Pacific. Total Asia-Pacific IoT spending is forecast to be $9.96 billion in 2014, at a CAGR of 34.1%, reaching $57.96 billion by 2020. More than 80 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet by 2020. This re...