Category: Analysis

In 2014, the Czech external storage market posted an 11.9% value decline in U.S. dollar terms, with each quarter of the year displaying a year-on-year decrease, according to market research published by International Data Corporation (IDC). Prague, July 22, 2015 – While these results reflect a five-quarter-long trend of market contraction, the first calendar quarter of 2015 recorded 9.9% growth. IDC believes that, as this growth is the result of regular project cycles, it is the precursor of further growth for 2015 as a whole, albeit precarious. In spite of an…

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The overall enterprise and consumer wireless local area network (WLAN) market  in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) decreased 12.6% in value and 20.3% in volume quarter on quarter in Q1 2015. Year on year it grew in value by 2.9%, with almost no change in volume. Growth in four rolling quarters starting in Q2 2014 exceeded 8%, confirming that the WLAN market is dynamic and represents good potential for vendors. According to the results published in the IDC EMEA Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker, the enterprise WLAN market grew 11.3%…

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An increase in mobile working has left businesses with inadequate security policies vulnerable, a study reveals Mobile working and BYOD has left businesses without sufficient security policies in place vulnerable to data loss, a new study has revealed. The research was conducted by Arlington Research and Acronis back in May, and found that, while 60 per cent of the UK population are using personal devices for work, 40 per cent of companies have no security policies in place to prevent employees from sharing sensitive company information or accessing restricted data.…

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Bandwidth can be a challenge when administering cloud services. A jump server can alleviate this bottleneck. I am not a fan of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for replacing the full desktop experience for all enterprise users; I believe the technology is a stopgap until applications are web based and light enough to run on any device. I’ve seen too many VDI deployments fail due to the wrong use case or the overpromise, and thus be a poor user experience. With the number of legacy apps running in enterprises, the death…

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The cloud storage market is a three-way race with the trailing pack choosing to occupy niches rather than challenge the leaders, according to the market scryers of Gartner. The firm last week issued a new “Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide” that listed just seven providers: AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, AT&T and Verizon. As the quadrant below shows, the first three companies we’ve mentioned are all designated leaders and the latter four are niche operators. Unusually, the analyst firm found no visionaries or challengers in the market.…

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With the accelerated adoption of smart devices (mainly smartphones and tablets) over the past few years, the growing mobility of employees, as well as the increased use of personal devices for work and the availability of cloud-based applications, mobility has emerged as a technology that businesses cannot afford to neglect. That’s the finding of IDC’s annual Enterprise Mobility Survey in Central and Eastern Europe. PRAGUE, June 16, 2015 – While mobility is considered essential by a growing number of companies in Western Europe’s more advanced countries, in Central and Eastern European…

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LONDON, June, 2015 — International Data Corporation’s (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker shows that in the first quarter of 2015 the EMEA server market continued the positive year-on-year growth seen throughout 2014, to report $3 billion in vendor revenue and 557,182 units shipped, for YoY growth of 6.3% and 3.5% respectively. The EMEA market has now shown positive YoY unit growth (3.5%) for the fourth consecutive quarter, though this is slightly slower than the growth seen in vendor revenue (6.3%), as vendor ASPs continue to increase as the EMEA market moves…

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People today don’t shop like they used to. Over the past few years, e-commerce and mobile shopping have experienced radical growth, shifting retailers’ focus, rightfully so, on improving those digital user experiences. Those experiences, however, are still inherently limited. People want the in-store benefits of seeing, touching and feeling products, and to do so surrounded by fellow brand loyalists. This all results in the reality that today’s shoppers truly live in both online and offline environments. So what does this mean for retailers? To get ahead, they need to sync…

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Worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by -6.2% in 2015 according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker . This will be the fourth consecutive year of declining volume as the PC market continues to struggle with competition from tablets and smartphones and generally low demand. FRAMINGHAM / PRAGUE,  –The market almost saw stable shipments in mid-2014 as the end of support for Windows XP boosted demand for replacements, but that cycle has passed and been replaced by a reduction in inventory on the supply side as…

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The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain momentum as vendors and enterprises begin to embrace the opportunities this market presents. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide Internet of Things market will grow from $655.8 billion in 2014 to $1.7 trillion in 2020 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.9%.  Image: Profinews.com FRAMINGHAM, Mass./PRAGUE, June 5, 2015 –Devices, connectivity, and IT services will make up the majority of the IoT market in 2020. Together, they are estimated to account for over two-thirds of…

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