International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 27

Higher average selling prices across standard and custom servers has seen data centre vendors cashing in on a bustling market.

With data, AI is just a bunch of fancy code. But in order to capitalise on data's potential, we need to look critically at how it is stored.

Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are driving the global smart home market, projected to hit 643.9 million shipments in 2018.

The market recorded very healthy growth in Q2 2018, but IDC has revealed it there are some speed bumps coming.

The external storage systems market in the region is in good stead, with some sectors doing better than others.

DigiPlex has released the results of its IDC survey that found despite huge progress in data centre operations, ignorance still exists.

The combined consumer and enterprise WLAN market segments rose 1.9% year over year in the second quarter of 2018.

Dell Inc. takes the top spot with HPE coming in at number two as global market revenue reaches US$22.5 billion.

Apple's share of the market continues to grow along with Chinese competitors Xiaomi and Huawei. Fitbit still in decline.

IDC says the telco industry is scrambling to convert entire data centres from vertically integrated stacks to software-defined infrastructure.

A new report shows the shift to software-defined infrastructure will lead the telco compute and storage infrastructure market to over US$16b by 2022.

An inaugural report on composable/disaggregated infrastructure from IDC shows that it will go from US$300m to $3.4b in next five years.

For the first half of the year, shipments are up 3.5% while revenue is up over 5% compared to the first half of 2017.

The new network functions virtualisation infrastructure category is under carrier network infrastructure and looks to be a high growth area.

Only with resilient operations can businesses mitigate the risk of downtime and focus on projects that drive transformation.

Dell'Oro Group and IDC have both released reports forecasting the future of the SD-WAN market, which is very bright indeed.

APJ gears up for AI & IoT revolution, with 70% of firms set to adopt in 5 years, leading global tech investment.

With our increasing dependence on data, it's no secret that smart cities are the future and an IDC report reveals APAC is certainly gearing up.

True IDC and BBIX have formed a joint venture to make Thailand a world class internet exchange hub of ASEAN - with future expansion on the cards.

Big data and business analytics remains a massive area of growth worldwide and shows no sign of slowing down in the near future.