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The Cloud Wars continue as Alibaba and Google stake claims in a market that will see spending hit US$143 billion next year, driven by the channel.

Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet, all with a strong focus on network security products, outperformed the market, recording strong double-digit growth.

Despite soaring to USD $37 billion in 2018, cybersecurity spend only constitutes 2% of total IT investments, Canalys reports.

Pockets of growth, both in segments and geography, will persist, particularly in Asia Pacific, one of two regions to avoid shipment declines in 2019.

According to Canalys, spending grew by 46% in 4Q18 and AWS maintained dominance with nearly a third of the total.

Canalys analysts say the huge growth in cloud services will be of benefit to channel partners with a number of incentives.

A new report from Canalys has revealed what the world’s two largest cloud providers have been up to – and they’ve certainly been busy.

There was a lot to unpack at the Canalys APAC Channels Forum keynote. This long-form piece tries to cover all the most relevant points for ANZ.

Ongoing trade tensions between China and the US  are having a significant impact on the cloud service providers market.

The IT vendor programme. A stalwart of the channel, but one that is seemingly beginning to hold less relevance as new research reveals.

While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.

With a 41% year on year growth, compared to Apple’s 1%, Huawei is now second only to Samsung in the number of shipments this quarter.

Ruckus is no longer just wifi and is ready to take on the incumbents. Three business leaders explain how ANZ partners can gain from this growth.

AWS remains the top cloud infrastructure provider, but rival Microsoft Azure is growing faster and closing the market share gap, according to Canalys.

Apple saw a 30% YoY rise in Q2 2018 smartwatch shipments, driven by LTE model popularity in APAC. Yet, its market share dipped to 34%.

Smart speaker installed base set to hit 100 million by year-end, with Amazon Echo taking over 50% share, says Canalys.

Google claims the top spot in the smart speaker market by shipping 3.2 million units in Q1 2018, surpassing Amazon’s 2.5 million Echo shipments.

Global PC and tablet market shipments to fall 2.1% this year, but Canalys says the decline is slowing, indicating potential long-term stability.

Canalys says wearable band shipments grew 35 percent from the year before with a two horse race at the front & fierce competition behind.

During Q1 2018 we got a new leader on top of smartphone shipments, one vendor experiencing triple digit growth, and a huge decline in China.