IDC: International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. (Source: www.idc.com)
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With enterprise video moving into the mainstream of business communications, organisations are now faced with the challenge of deploying video collaboration in the workplace. An executive brief from IDC called "Mobile Video Collaboration: The New Business Reality” describes the issues on th ... read more
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Videoconferencing, once perceived as a peripheral business tool, is now gaining global, cross-sector recognition as a powerful mainstream communications medium. The enterprise videoconferencing and telepresence market grew by 20.5 percent in 2011, reaching $2.7 billion, according to industry analysts IDC read more
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WAN application delivery—and by necessity, related issues such as data quality, monitoring and optimisation, is one of the biggest behind-the-scenes technologies in the marketplace. It may not get the media attention as do the angry birds that populate the latest mobile games, but how this market shakes out may well make the difference on whether your angry birds catapult across the sky on a timely basis.
According to IDC, WAN application delivery is one of ... read more
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IDC’s new survey on Mobile Enterprise claims that in the next three years, more than one billion workers across the globe will be working remotely or as ‘virtual workforce.’ The survey was lead by Stacy Crook a senior research analyst at IDC on mobile enterprise.
The survey shows that of the 1.3 billion workers, 244.6 million will be in Europe, 838.7 million in ‘emerging economies’ of Asia Pacific region and 212.1 million in Canada, Latin America and US.
Spe ... read more
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New research from IDC, commissioned by the EU, has found that creating policies that take away barriers to cloud adoption would increase spending in the public cloud to around €77.7bn by 2020, currently worth around €35.2bn.
At the moment, IDC found that obstacles to read more
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Researchers at IDC have found that slower than expected growth was experienced in Q1 2013 for PC sales in China, which is the largest PC market in the world.
Whilst it’s thought that there were contributing factors to the decline, such as the Chinese New Year, budget cuts and anti-corruption measures, the reduction in growth still came as something of a surprise. It’s thought that the market will recover slightly in March, although not enough to offset a weak February.
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Research analysts at IDC have found that the lack of IT
skills when it comes to the cloud computing sector will be outpaced by demand
for the technology in the next few years.
This is nothing new, in 2012 around 1.7m jobs could not be
filled around the globe due to lack of training, study, certification and
experience in cloud. However, according to IDC, demand will continue to grow
year-on-year by 26% by 2015.
This will create about 7m cloud-related jobs globally, IDC ... read more
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Analysts have downgraded Microsoft stock from buy to neutral
in the wake of reports from IDC and Gartner that contributed the sharp decline
in PC sales to Windows 8.
The decline was worse than forecast and the steepest decline
since IDC began worldwide PC tracking in 1994. IDC put much of the blame for
this on Windows 8, which has failed to make any real impact on consumers along
with Surface.
"The combination of Windows 8's sluggish adoption and the
absence of compell ... read more
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The integration of mobile devices - including smartphones and tablets - has become a top priority for businesses, according to IT analyst IDC. The organisation claims that so-called 'bring your own device' initiatives are becoming commonplace across the world of business - not just in IT departments.Rohit Mehra, director of enterprise communications infrastructure at IDC, said that demand for wireless local area network (WLAN) solutions was rising as businesses adopt a more inclusive att ... read more
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Mobile Technologies, Video and Cloud Computing to increase Network budget by 8.7% in 2012, says a fresh study at IDC.
The latest study by IDC, has found that the year 2012, will commence with major spending on networking equipment and infrastructure across market segments. Three new technologies-- Mobile Technology in the Enterprises, exponential rate of Video Consumption and read more
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The latest analysis from IDC has revealed that worldwide PC
shipments even lower than expected in the final quarter of 2012, down by 6.4%
on the previous year.
In total, 89.8 million units were shipped worldwide in the
final quarter, which is worse than the forecast decline, which was 4.4%. Sales
were expected to show a dip due to the increase in the tablet and smartphone
market, but it was thought that the launch of Windows 8 may bolster the market
somewhat.
IDC said ... read more
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Worldwide PC sales have declined at the steepest rate in one quarter ever, with sales figures 13.9% down on this time last year and worse than the expected decline forecast of -7.7%.
The first quarter of 2013 saw a total figure of 73.6m units shipped according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. This means t ... read more
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The latest data from IDC shows that worldwide tablet sales
continue to boom, growing 142.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013.
According to the IDC Worldwide
Quarterly Tablet Tracker , tablet shipments totalled 49.2m units in the
first quarter of the year, more than doubling the amount sold at this time la ... read more
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Companies looking at ways to improve their sales and marketing departments by boosting efficiency and productivity, and enabling mobile employees to collaborate effectively with others within the business may find that cloud computing technology offers a wealth of different solutions to help them achieve this.
Recent figures from IDC  read more
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Whilst web-based conferencing is nothing new, a trend we’re likely to see in 2013 is the rise in video collaboration in the workplace. Telecommuting is increasing in popularity and not suprisingly web/cloud-based web meetings are increasingly being adopted as costs lower and they become easy to use.
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