International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 36

NZ tablet market wobbles as slate sales slide, but detachable varieties soar with a sharp 142% growth, IDC reports.

Global enterprise storage revenue declines in Q1 2016, with IDC reporting a 7% drop year over year. HPE and EMC lead the market.

Global revenues for big data and business analytics are set to explode, with IDC forecasting a growth to over $187 billion in 2019.

Pioneering IoT players to watch in 2016, according to IDC: Arrayent, BugLabs, and MachineShop. Innovative technology and business models key.

IDC forecasts that intelligent systems will have a CAGR of 7.2% from 2015-2020, with revenues exceeding $2.2 trillion in 2020.

The smartphone app market may have hit its peak, with app installations and a maturing market still growing but at a slower rate, an IDC study reports.

Big data and analytics hold high potential for local service providers as companies across APAC seek to harness massive amounts of data.

Spend on server, storage and Ethernet switches for deployment in cloud environments is expected to increase by 18.9% this year.

Dell, Cisco and EMC are closing the gap marginally on Hewlett Packard Enterprise's number one spot for cloud infrastructure sales.

Adaptation by vendors in the purpose-built backup appliance market is helping drive the market which remains completely dominated by EMC.

IBM saw strong server revenue growth in Q4, while the density optimised segment of the market benefitting from continuing data center buildouts.

There's big growth in some areas of the security appliance market - and big declines in others. So which are rising and which are falling?.

IDC says IoT, cognitive computing, robotics, 3D printing, augmented/virtual reality and next gen security will accelerate DX in New Zealand.

Wearables have taken a big step forward with triple digit growth in 2015, but 'me too' copycats won't cut it going forward.

Organisations are embracing cloud, with increasing amounts of IT spend allocated to cloud - but many feel they don't have an 'optimised' strategy yet.

Pure Storage wins 'leader' status in a new IDC report, with IDC noting the impact of all-flash arrays on the data center is now 'unquestionable'.

By 2017, 60% of APAC 1000 enterprises will centre their strategy on digital transformation, driving smart city and enterprise development in the region.

Public cloud spend is forecast to double by 2019 in Asia Pacific excluding Japan, growing at nearly six times the rate of overall IT spending growth.

Data center SDN is moving from hyperscale and cloud data centers into the enterprise data center, propelling market spend to $12.5 billion by 2015.

Healthcare, government and retail are driving mobility sales, with mobility offering 'transformative' opportunities for vendors – and resellers.