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Infor has announced it's been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises.

The report found increasing instances of ransomware victims experiencing multiple breach events, as well as a rise in the average ransom payment.

Gartner's recognition of Cohesity as a leader speaks to the company's strengths in delivering next-generation data management.

Cloud infrastructure spending reached $15.1 billion in 2021's first quarter, representing an increase of 12.5% year over year, according to the analyst firm.

Digital payments, content, customer and social engagement, and remote learning are all helping to drive growth.

Although shipments fell 7% in 2020 due to the pandemic, the market has bounced back with shipments expected to grow 12% in 2021.

Apple iPhones to capture nearly 40% of smartphone market value in 2022, despite Android's global dominance, says Juniper Research.

Spending on blockchain solutions is set to reach $6.6 billion this year, with strong growth expected in the coming years, according to IDC.

There will be more than 1.4 billion users of facial recognition software used for payments alone in 2025, up from 671 million in 2020.

Reveal Group named Leader in Forrester Wave Midsize RPA Services Q1 2021 report for customer results and business outcomes.

Smart home device shipments reached 801.5 million in 2020, set to reach 1.4 billion by 2025, says a study by the International Data Corporation.

That means that most data was essentially created to be consumed, or cached and overwritten with new data, says IDC.

Asia Pacific countries are leading the way in private network deployments, creating a market worth $7bn by 2025, says ABI Research.

Pandemic challenges have catalysed technology trends across the globe and accelerated organisations' digital transformations sooner than initially predicted.

Worldwide smartphone shipments could achieve a 5.5% growth rate this year - and PC shipment rates will also grow 18.2%.

The reduction is, in part, due to the theory that aggregated compute resources across enterprise and large data centres are more efficient.

Tencent Cloud awarded Best Practice Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in the Global Cloud Industry by Frost - Sullivan.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud lead the cloud provider market, accounting for 65% of total cloud spend in the quarter.

Veritas has been recognized as a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice in Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions for the second year running.

This figure represents a growth from $945 million in 2019, according to IDC's inaugural forecast for such statistics, with a five-year CAGR of 43.4%.