Tag: Quocirca

Quocirca’s Cloud print services report for 2022 claims that the next few years will see a move to cloud printing and print management services.

The report looks at what will happen in the market between now and 2025, with it clear that a shift to the cloud is going to be one of the main developments.

Cloud services were flagged as the top investment area, and the shift to hosted comes at a time when 45 percent of customers have implemented remote print job submission options for hybrid workers.

Customers felt it was often more secure than on-premise options, as well as a way of helping to reach so-called sustainability targets. Read more…

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a move to the cloud in the print industry, according to industry analyst firm Quocirca.

The report found 75 percent of those it surveyed had already used marketplaces including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and just over half had been on platforms such as Amazon Business. Only 30 percent said they were still buying direct from a channel partner.

The trend towards cloud marketplaces is set to continue, with 88 percent of customers expecting further growth in the next couple of years. Read more…

A report from Quocirca said that print specialists will have to increase the volume of remote working.

Quocirca has been charting the changes, with the analyst firm releasing its tenth edition of its insights into the managed print services (MPS) landscape. The latest report is dominated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and has discovered that, according to business leaders, there are going to be some long-lasting repercussions. Read more…

The humble printer could be a significant hub for data and compute power as part of an  IoT ecosystem but it needs a change in attitude from vendors.

Analysts from Quocirca say that vendors have a drawbridge up attitude when it comes to data sharing even while multifunction printers already generate a lot of data and have compute power that could be taken advantage of if third parties could use it as a resource. Read more…

Blockchain could be the ticket for the print industry according to new analysis from Quocirca.

The report said that the hyped tech is still early days for the technology but the print industry should keep an eye on it. Read more…

More than 60 percent of businesses were breached last year as a result of security flaws in printers.

Analyst outfit Quocirca has been adding up some numbers and thinks that the majority of breaches are triggered by an organisation’s employees, despite 70 percent of businesses believing malware to be the biggest threat to them.

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