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EY tackles COVID-19 and prepares for Next and Beyond
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystNow, Next, Beyond: The perfect framework for our COVID-19 present In a wide-ranging discussion centered on COVID-19, EY’s global leaders detailed for TBR the firm’s views on the current situation, the immediate needs and opportunities ahead in 2020, and what the post-pandemic reality will be for EY and its clients — Now, Next and Beyond. […]
Vendors pursue tactical run-the-business engagements to help clients react to COVID-19 and relaunch business operations
/by Elitsa Bakalova, Senior AnalystManagement consulting market summary Outlook Regardless of whether the pandemic lingers, re-emerges in the second half of 2020 or significantly subsides, TBR expects consultancies will benefit from opportunities created by the chaos of COVID-19, such as uneven responses from government authorities around economic fallout, pandemic protocols and continued uncertainty throughout 2020. Vendors with greater scale, […]
Atos and COVID-19: Serve now and prepare for the future
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystAtos, its clients and its communities will be ‘Future Ready’ In a one-hour virtual session with analysts, Atos’ Pierre Barnabe, head of Public Sector & Defense as well as Big Data & Cybersecurity, and Robert Vassoyan, head of Healthcare & Life Sciences as well as Unified Communications & Collaboration, detailed the company’s response to COVID-19, […]
Rooted and stable yet innovative, HCLT relies on core strengths to drive profitable growth
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystTBR assessment HCL Technologies’ (HCLT) Mode 1-2-3 strategy remains a core pillar in the company’s efforts to navigate the dynamics of the ever-evolving IT services market, and positions it to transition its portfolio and address client needs now and post-pandemic. At the 2020 Analyst and Advisor Day, HCLT President and CEO C Vijayakumar noted, “The […]
Accelerated adoption of cloud due to COVID-19 will lift cloud professional services and hosted private cloud markets
/by Catie Merrill, Senior AnalystCOVID-19 impacts and assumptions COVID-19 has undoubtedly created financial pain for businesses across all verticals. Business operations have been disrupted and revenue streams have declined in many industries across the globe. At the same time, the pandemic has required additional investment to support remote work and adjust business processes to align with public health guidance […]
IBM Z’s relevance will persist in the digital world
/by Catie Merrill, Senior AnalystSoftware abstraction converges ICT onto single platforms Software-defined networking essentially virtualizes the last leg of the three-cornered compute, storage and networking stool. Similarly, the software abstraction makes compute and networking mere workloads on the compute instance. Vodafone’s (Nasdaq: VOD) customer case study at Think 2020 addressed this integrated data and networking construct being delivered from […]
Egypt and IT and the center of the world
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystWhat makes Egypt attractive Egypt’s growing IT services and technology sector has been built on important natural advantages and few forward-looking investments in recent years. The country’s proximity to Europe, considerably large and educated talent pool, and relatively low costs compared to nearshore locations such as Poland, Romania and Bulgaria make Egypt a natural hub […]
COVID-19 will have a relatively limited impact on the TIS market overall as CSPs remain committed to and focused on deploying new technologies
/by Chris Antlitz, Principal AnalystStrong investments by webscales and China-based telcos will carry the telecom infrastructure services (TIS) market through the COVID-19 crisis relatively intact, with a shallow decline of relatively short duration expected in the overall market followed by a robust, sustained recovery as CSPs in other key countries accelerate their infrastructure initiatives to align with the new […]
COVID-19 dealt only a glancing blow to federal IT, but market dynamics are still shifting
/by John Caucis, Senior AnalystCOVID-19 will accelerate a range of secular trends in federal IT Despite the inevitable short-term impact of COVID-19 on federal technology outlays, IT infrastructure modernization will eventually return to the top of the list of federal IT spending priorities, as will investments in cybersecurity, analytics, AI, big data, cloud and machine learning. The epidemic will […]
Benchmark security revenue continues to increase, driven primarily by acquisitions in 2H19
/by adminKey 2H19 benchmark takeaways Total benchmarked revenue Double-digit growth among covered vendors was due to steady industry acquisitions and strong performance from many of the vendors, including IBM (NYSE: IBM), F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR), Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) and Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK). TBR believes security demand continues to rapidly accelerate as companies execute […]