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South Korean giant Samsung Electronics became the globe's top vendor of semiconductors in 2021, overtaking Intel for the first time since 2018 with a 31.6% rise in revenue to US$75.9 billion (A$105.2 billion), the technology analyst firm Gartner says.

After another year of disruption and uncertainty, Australia’s business leaders are now turning their attention to what lies ahead in 2022. When it comes to technology, the outlook is a mixture of challenges and opportunities.

GUEST OPINION: Pandemic restrictions have caused big changes within many Australian businesses, and one of the most significant has been a rapid increase in the adoption of cloud resources and services.

Chinese multinational technology company Lenovo’s infrastructure solutions group adds the ThinkEdge SE450 to its portfolio, an artificial intelligence platform that accelerates business insights.

Smartphone sales around the globe fell by 6.8% in the third quarter year-on-year, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that component shortages were primarily to blame.

COMPANY NEWS: Extreme Networks, a cloud-driven networking company, today announced it has been named as a leader by Gartner in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless Local Access Network (LAN) Infrastructure, published on 15 November 2021, authored by Mike Toussaint, Christian Canales, and Tim Zimmerman. This is the fourth consecutive year Extreme has been positioned as a Leader in the annual research report.

After raising more than $10 million this year, e-commerce service Ultra Commerce has acquired US-based Slatwall Commerce to expand the reach of its end-to-end digital commerce platform.

Analytics automation firm Alteryx has appointed a new managing director for its Australia and New Zealand operations, with former Adobe official Heidi Badgery to take up the post.

Mediaocean recognized for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

GUEST OPINION: Mediaocean the mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising, today announced that it has been named a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the “Magic Quadrant for Ad Tech” (October 2021) research report. This is the second time that Mediaocean has been named in the Ad Tech report, having been named as a Visionary in 2020. The research was conducted prior to the acquisition of Flashtalking, and those additional capabilities were not considered.

Analyst firm Garter predicts spending on technology products and services in Australia will exceed $109 billion in 2022, up 6.5% on this year.

Australian workers’ proficiency in technology has improved with 65% of employees considering themselves either experts or skilful with digital technology, according to a survey by technology research and consulting company Gartner.

Spending on IT around the world is projected to total US$4.5 trillion (A$5.98 trillion) in 2022, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that this would be an increase of 5.5% from 2021.

Component shortages have ensured that third-quarter global smartphone shipments would fall, with the technology analyst firm Canalys reporting a drop of 6% for the three months ending in September, according to preliminary figures issued on Friday. The second quarter had witnessed a drop of 20.4%.

GUEST RESEARCH: Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced it has been positioned by Gartner as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage. This is the eighth year in a row that Gartner has named Pure Storage a storage leader and the second year in a row Pure Storage has been positioned highest on the ability to execute axis and furthest on the completeness of vision axis.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, ANZ Country Manager, Gigamon:  The cloud is an extremely complex environment. To help ensure that organisations derive maximum advantage out of it, they need to be able to see exactly what’s happening at all times. They need cloud monitoring.

Chip shortages may force Apple to cut its production target for the iPhone 13, the news agency Bloomberg reports, citing "people with knowledge of the matter".

We asked our panel of industry players if they thought telcos would make a move for a dominant role in edge computing. Most were not entirely convinced.

GUEST RESEARCH: Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, has announced it has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage for both its completeness of vision and ability to execute in the rapidly growing storage market for unstructured data.

GUEST RESEARCH: Kong, a leading provider of full lifecycle API management and cloud connectivity solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of the 2021 Gartner Full Lifecycle API Management Magic Quadrant. This is the second consecutive year Kong has been named a Leader on the quadrant, and Kong again ranked highest for its completeness of vision.

COMPANY NEWS: The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection has named global edge cloud platform provider Fastly as a Challenger last August.