Tag: IDC
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Link: What’s really driving digital transformation globally? IDC has answers
IDC survey on digital transformation says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and be more competitive, among other survey findings. And, as always, “the biggest barriers are people oriented.” Original source: What’s really driving digital transformation globally? IDC has answers
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Link: Modeling the future enterprise: people, purpose, and profit
“One answer is in a straightforward metric—how new technologies like cloud, cognitive, mobile, IoT, mobile, etc., impact industries via the gross domestic product (GDP) by industry by region. Looking at the improvement opportunities in healthcare, energy, government, and the supply chain, among other domains, IDC has identified $18.5 trillion in annual economic value add by…
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Link: Worldwide Spending on Security Solutions Forecast to Reach $91 Billion in 2018, According to a New IDC Spending Guide
“Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $91.4 billion in 2018, an increase of 10.2% over the amount spent in 2017.” Also, a breakdown of spending per industry and type of security product. Original source: Worldwide Spending on Security Solutions Forecast to Reach $91 Billion in 2018, According to a…
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Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC
For companies under 1,000 people, IDC “forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to be nearly $602 billion in 2018, an increase of 4.9% over 2017. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% for the 2016-2021 forecast period, spending by businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees on IT hardware, software,…
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Link: The Server Market Booms, And It Could Last For A While
“Datacenters certainly came to the fourth quarter of last year hungry, and according to the latest statistics from IDC, they consumed 2.84 million units of iron, a 10.8 percent increase over the prior year’s final quarter. Thanks to IBM’s big bump up with System z14 mainframe sales and to a general trend of buying beefier…
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Link: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC
Includes an interesting chart that lists the types of services/features (like data management and appdev platforms) that compose vendor revenue. Plus geographic and vertical rankings. But, just a press release. Original source: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC
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Global IT spend at $2.4 trillion in 2017, 3.5% growth, IDC
Worldwide revenues for information technology (IT) products and services are forecast to reach nearly $2.4 trillion in 2017, an increase of 3.5% over 2016. In a newly published update to the Worldwide Semiannual IT Spending Guide: Industry and Company Size , International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that global IT spending will grow to nearly $2.65…
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Link: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push
“In addition, the government plans to increase PaaS spending from $227.1 million in FY15 to $231.3 million [in FY16].” We’re still in a phase where categorization causes weird slices of spend like this, but there you have it. More figures on “cloud” spending in the piece. Source: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push
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Link: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion in 2019 Led by Widespread Initiatives
“According to a new IDC Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a 17.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $698.6 billion in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion in 2019.” I think IoT is becoming mor like IoEverything. Source: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion…
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Link: Wearables marketshare from IDC
“Fitbit with 22.2%, Apple with 18.6%, and Xiaomi with 17.4%. Of course, in such a new product category, market share can be volatile, but they are far ahead of the No. 4 player, Garmin (4.1%), which largely caters to hard-core runners.” Source: Wearables marketshare from IDC
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Link: Why CA left the DCIM market
“According to IDC, the market will reach $576 million in revenue this year – up from $475 million in 2014 — and hit close to $1 billion by 2019.” That’s a really small market to be operating in, no matter what your marketshare. Also, check out the quote from Rhonda at 451! Source: Why CA…
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Link: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC
“Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from the previous year.” Source: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC
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IDC Revises 2014 Global IT Spending Projections Downward
IDC Revises 2014 Global IT Spending Projections Downward
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The IT growth is from new shit, IDC says
According to IDC, the 5 percent IT growth it sees for 2014 is comprised of two elements: Stagnant legacy infrastructure growth (0.7 percent) and a high third-platform infrastructure growth (15 percent). Just to bring the point home, IDC asserts that a full 29 percent of 2014 IT spending and 89 percent of all IT growth…
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Hadoop moving into production
A recent IDC survey of 202 large companies already experimenting with Hadoop found that 32 percent had moved it to production environments, and another 31 percent are in the process of doing so within 12 months. Hadoop moving into production
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Things are going the wrong direction in the server market
Continued soft demand for servers around the world resulted in a 3.7 percent decline in sales during the third quarter, according to IDC. A poor showing by IBM, which suffered a 19.4 percent decline in factory revenues during the quarter, enabled Hewlett-Packard to regain the title as the world’s top server maker. Cisco and the…
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IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
Down 15% for consumers, 5% for business users. IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
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No one got fired for buying IBM cloud
So what is the impact of IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer? This analyst believes this acquisition may be a fundamental signal to competitors that the old world of outsourcing is fading and that the only way to the future is delivery of services via an “IT” utility called the cloud. Just consider that 80% of U.S. buyers indicate…
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