Analysys Mason Podcast

Arm is investing heavily now to achieve long-term IoT revenue growth

5 years may seem to be sufficient time for Arm to deliver IoT revenue growth ahead of returning to the public market, but many of its growth initiatives will take much longer to come to fruition.

A low Net Promoter Score masks a more-promising picture for operators and their IT ambitions

Operators may be better positioned to sell other services than they think.

Chinese operators are dominating the worldwide IoT market, benefiting from a supportive government

Governments are changing their attitudes to austerity and may want to invest in new projects; telecoms operators and other players in the IoT value chain should consider how they could benefit.

Sophos should become a more-stable and stronger competitor thanks to its acquisition by Thoma Bravo

On 14 October 2019, the US private equity firm Thoma Bravo announced that it was buying Sophos, the UK security firm. In this podcast, Research Director, Tom Rebbeck discusses Thoma Bravo’s strategy and outlines what the deal will mean for Sophos.

Alternative models for the delivery of SD-WAN services threaten operators’ position as retail providers

Principal Analyst, Catherine Hammond outlines the threats posed to operators by these alternative delivery models, and argues that operators must deliver effective SD-WAN solutions of their own, with good levels of customer satisfaction, in order to defend their connectivity revenue.

MNOs and MVNOs: from competition to collaboration to expand the IoT connectivity opportunity

Principal Analyst, Michele Mackenzie discusses the trend of collaboration between mobile network operators and mobile virtual network operators for the purpose of expanding the IoT connectivity opportunity. 

Cyber security in middle- and high-income countries

Analysys Mason recently conducted a survey of almost 3000 small and medium-sized businesses worldwide (by this, we mean companies with fewer than 1000 employees). In this podcast, we will hear from Igor Babić, who has been looking at the results from our survey. He will talk about how security requirements vary by country.

Business survey 2019: almost 25% of small businesses feel that their cyber-security protection is inadequate

Our recent survey of around 3000 businesses worldwide shows that the smaller a business, the larger the relative impact of a cyber attack. Despite this, small companies are not well served by security vendors. In this podcast, Research Director, Tom Rebbeck discusses some of the results of this survey and what it tells us about cyber security and small businesses.