International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 54

IDC is warning the future for IT services providers is changing as APAC businesses ring up $2 billion in cloud related services in a year.

The PC market continued its downward trajectory in 2015, with mobiles, tablets and Windows 10 contributing to the decline.

Worldwide smartwatch shipments are expected to reach over 200 million in 2019, driving growth in the wearables market, according to IDC.

If you thought hybrid cloud was big now, wait til next year, with IDC predicting 'a big year' for solutions built on hybrid cloud architectures.

Unified threat management is propelling the security appliance market forward. So which vendors are winning in the market?.

ANZ is expected to record a small increase in IT services growth next year, with the overall APeJ IT services spend forecast to grow 6.5%.

Asia Pacific accounts for more than 40% of the global IoT spend of $698.6 billion in 2015, with insurance telematics leading the way according to IDC.

The brakes are expected to start coming off PC spending in the later half of next year, with IDC predicting a return to growth in PC shipments.

Strap yourself in for a bumpy year in the Kiwi PC market in 2016, with IDC NZ expecting declining shipments - and vendor consolidation.

Hyperscale infrastructure and server-based storage continue to dive spending in enterprise storage, according to IDC.

A market transition is seeing detachable tablets booming, the iPad Pro experiencing a turnaround, and Windows gaining tablet traction.

The combined consumer and enterprise WLAN market segments increased 2.1% year over year in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15).

Agility, technology and data are impacting demand for digital strategic services, which is set to become $97 billion worldwide opportunity by 2019.

The telecoms industry will shift to a platform-based approach in 2016, according to insights from IDC Asia Pacific.

Next-generation endpoint security vendor Bit9 + Carbon Black is upping its local play, opening an Australian sales office.

Worldwide business analytics services spending is set to reach $58.6 billion in 2015, and increase to $101.9 billion in 2019.

Aruba says it - and its partners - are riding a mobility wave driven by the #GenMobile generation and increasing demand for a mobile first approach.

Cloud storage is biting deep into personal and entry-level storage shipments, which tumbled as consumers and small business took to cloud.

Big data continues to be big business with IDC forecasting strong growth across big-data related infrastructure, software and services.

IDC says by 2020 more than 30% of IT vendors will not exist as we know them today, as digital transformation and third platform change IT forever.