Category: Analysis

According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), in the last quarter of 2015 over 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe as the market volume declined 10.1% YoY. In value terms, however, the decline was only 1.8% YoY, thanks to growing penetration of detachable tablets boosted by an increasing supply of devices with wide-ranging specs catering for the diverse needs of consumers and professionals. In the last quarter of the year, 2.6 million tablets with a detachable keyboard were shipped, up from just over 800,000 units a…

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More than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things by 2020, according to Gartner. That means that every piece of software that supports those business processes and systems must be redesigned to accommodate the requirements of the rapidly evolving IoT market. Nearly every major independent software vendor is making moves to respond to the IoT challenge. Some are adding new functionality to their existing applications organically. Others are making acquisitions to enhance their established capabilities. Callidus Connects to Customers Callidus Software recently…

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According to a recent study by International Data Corporation (IDC), Microsoft has tripled its market share between 1Q 2011 and 2Q 2015 in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) IP PBX and unified communications (UC) platform market and become a head-to-head competitor to the vendors that have traditionally dominated this market. “This is a result of a strategy tuned to the transformations underway in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. All other vendors and service providers should regard Microsoft’s rise as a call to action,” says Program Manager…

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The number of Internet protocol television (IPTV) homes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) will double by 2020, with pay TV subscribers in the region expected to total approximately 83.8 million. According to the Central and Eastern Europe Pay TV 2015–2020 Forecast published by global IT market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), pay TV service penetration will reach 82% by the end of 2020. IDC estimates that pay TV penetration in CEE households stood at 70% at the end of 2014, which represents growth of around 3% compared with…

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According to the International Data Corporation (IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 23.0% year over year to $7.6 billion in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15). FRAMINGHAM, Mass., January 14, 2016 – The overall share of cloud IT infrastructure sales climbed to 33.8% in 3Q15, up from 28.7% a year ago. Revenue from infrastructure sales to private cloud grew by 18.8% to $2.9 billion, and to public cloud by…

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The move to digital technology creates an immense amount of opportunity for companies in areas like IoT, customer engagement management, and business analytics. It also creates new risks that those companies will have to learn to address— and quickly. Recent Gartner research showed that 77% of survey respondents agreed with the statement: “The digital world is creating new types and levels of risk for our business,” and 65% felt that “Investment in risk management practices is not keeping up with new and higher levels of risk.” “CEOs are right to…

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International Data Corporation (IDC) has completed an in-depth market sizing of the EMEA Big Data infrastructure market focusing on servers, storage, and cloud resources used for Big Data–related activities. These include value creation from merging different data sources, various analytics, log files, and metadata that help identify patterns and generate predictions. LONDON, January 13, 2016 — IDC forecasts that Big Data–related server shipments will increase from 6% of all servers shipped in EMEA in 2015 to 16% by 2019, and server values from $1 billion in 2015 to $2.7 billion…

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Expect the number of devices you own to multiply! We are in an era where technological advances are happening at an exponential rate. According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Forecast, in just four years you can expect to see the number of mobile devices skyrocket, non-PC devices to reign supreme, and online video to do a complete takeover of television. Head’s up—maybe it’s time to start carving out some space for those extra devices in your 2019 home-of-the-future. Billions and Billions of Devices!  Jumping from a “meager” 14.2 billion devices…

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In today’s technology-centric world, IT departments must evolve from business partners to catalysts for change. They must advise and provide innovative technological solutions for employees and customers – and disrupt how business is done. Technology is the driving force of almost every company in the digital economy. Case in point: in PwC’s most recent CEO Survey, business leaders said they were aware of the increasing need to put technology at the heart of their business. But the rapid pace of technological change remains challenging for many CEOs and C-suite teams.…

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Giant ‘Databerg’ of trivial and obsolete data estimated to cost European businesses $891bn annually by 2020 Veritas Technologies LLC, one of the global leaders in backup and recovery solutions, recently announced the results of its Databerg Report 2015, which looked at how organisations from 14 EMEA countries across the public and private sector manage their data. Major issues highlighted by the survey include employees treating corporate IT systems as their own personal infrastructure, and management’s over-reliance on cloud storage systems – concerns that will not only be subject to regulatory…

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