International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 54

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

Container technology is booming in popularity in the UK, thanks to companies like Docker revolutionising IT operations.

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.

Kiwi companies are over-estimating how advanced they are in digital transformation according to IDC. So how can you - and your customers - move ahead?.

The International Data Corporation releases data from Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker showing a 67.2% increase in wearables shipments.

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.

The worldwide semiconductor market is set to decline for a second consecutive year due to weak demand and oversupply.

Apple is racking up the wins on the detachables side of the tablet market, taking an early lead in the only growing segment of the tablet market.

Minimal growth this quarter is primarily attributed to strong smartphone saturation in developed markets, as well as a decline from Apple and Samsung.

A new study suggests Aussie businesses need a digital reality check with big differences between perception and reality in digital transformation.

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

IDC is forecasting skyrocketing VR hardware shipments this year, with AR ramping up in the next few years too - to a combined 110m shipments in 2020.

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

PC shipments continue to decline, with the only hopes for improvement dependent on commercial replacements and economic stability, according to IDC.

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

Converged systems revenue surpasses $3.1bn in Q4 2015, with hyperconverged systems driving growth, according to IDC.

IDC says SD-WAN revenue will start to ramp up strongly this year as organisations seek to optimise their cloud strategies.

Dell and HP continue to dominate the thin client market - a market where Asia Pacific was the only region to see an increase in shipments last year.

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