International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 54

There's a new market opening up for Kiwi resellers offering plenty of revenue potential - and a hidden gem waiting to be mined.

The transition towards detachable tablets is in full swing, with Apple coming out on top as the clear winner above Microsoft and other PC vendors.

The worldwide smartphone market finished 2015 on a high, with a strong holiday quarter boosting volumes to record levels.

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

IDC forecasts worldwide spending on DX technologies to reach $2.1bn in 2019, with enterprises as the biggest investors.

Infrastructure-as-a-service is on a rapid trajectory this year with both Gartner and IDC forecasting rapid growth in overall public cloud spend.

The rush to digital transformation is creating a 'massive' wave of new investments in services to support the changes according to a new report.

The server security market was sized at over $800 million in 2014, and Trend Micro has grown its revenue share for server security to 30.3%.

Cloud IT infrastructure will account for nearly half of all enterprise IT spend by 2019 with public cloud data centre spend leading the way.

Digital transformation in APAC to boost Big Data adoption, with a $65bn productivity boom forecasted, says IDC.

Public cloud is strengthening its market hold with new figures showing infrastructure spend for public cloud increasing ahead of private cloud.

IDC is warning the future for IT services providers is changing as APAC businesses ring up $2 billion in cloud related services in a year.

The PC market continued its downward trajectory in 2015, with mobiles, tablets and Windows 10 contributing to the decline.

Worldwide smartwatch shipments are expected to reach over 200 million in 2019, driving growth in the wearables market, according to IDC.

If you thought hybrid cloud was big now, wait til next year, with IDC predicting 'a big year' for solutions built on hybrid cloud architectures.

Unified threat management is propelling the security appliance market forward. So which vendors are winning in the market?.

ANZ is expected to record a small increase in IT services growth next year, with the overall APeJ IT services spend forecast to grow 6.5%.

Asia Pacific accounts for more than 40% of the global IoT spend of $698.6 billion in 2015, with insurance telematics leading the way according to IDC.

The brakes are expected to start coming off PC spending in the later half of next year, with IDC predicting a return to growth in PC shipments.

Strap yourself in for a bumpy year in the Kiwi PC market in 2016, with IDC NZ expecting declining shipments - and vendor consolidation.