Asia Pacific buyers of IT services and products seem to be hesitating on new purchasing commitments as the region appears to have been negatively impacted by the current global economic conditions, according to a new report just published.

Cloud services providers, Australian Cloud and Kiwi Cloud have selected cloud workspace solutions company, independenceIT, to deliver services to meet the expanding cloud needs of their customers.

Global technology media company, TechTarget, has established a Sydney-based Australian subsidiary and direct business operations in Australia as it looks to ramp up its ANZ business after 12 years operating in partnership with other companies.

Cloud-based help desk software provider, Zendesk, has released its new customer satisfaction index just as the company claims the sign-up of its 15,000th customer following a tripling of its revenues in 2010 and a ‘stellar’ year last year.

IT services vendor and solutions provider, EMC, has taken a solid grip on the worldwide Purpose Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) market, according to a new report just released, which shows the company captured 62 percent share of the market in the first half of last year, more than three times the share of its nearest competitor. And, more Australian companies have been quicker to embrace PBBA solutions than their counterparts in other Asia-Pacific countries.

A new survey carried out by a major analyst firm suggests CIOs in the Asia Pacific region will be relatively flush with cash compared with their counterparts in the US and Europe.

Worldwide shipments of PCs dropped towards the end of last year as consumer demand slowed. Ultrabooks, introduced to the market in the holiday season, didn’t attract consumers, and the overall decline in PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 1.4 percent.

Content Delivery Network providers are faced with a number of market challenges in the next five years with the delivery of increasingly large volumes of OTT video, and the daunting task of delivering not just to PCs, but to a range of devices like tablets and smartphones.

The world’s mobile workforce is on its way towards eventually reaching half of the total global workforce as more and more employees and employers, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, take advantage of the benefits of flexibility and mobility.

Internet users in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia and New Zealand, last year generated around 67,000 petabytes of Internet traffic and forecasts now predict that over the next five years traffic will soar to almost 530,000pb, with China and India easily the biggest traffic generators.