Tag: IDC

Tablet and Chromebook sales have peaked

Posted on February 8, 2022 by - News

Global tablet shipments reached 46 million units during the fourth quarter of 2021, posting a decline for the second time since the pandemic began in 2020, according to IDC beancounters.

Shipments dropped 11.9 percent year on year as demand slowed. For the full year 2021, total tablet shipments were up 3.2 percent, reaching 168.8 million units, the market’s highest level since 2016.

Chromebook shipments plummeted 63.6 percent year on year in fourth quarter, but managed to grow 13.5 per cent for the full year.

IDC Mobility and Consumer Device Trackers senior research analyst, Anuroopa Nataraj said that  2021 was a great year for tablets but shipments have begun to decelerate as the market has moved past peak demand.

Businesses are taking cybersecurity procurement more seriously

Posted on January 27, 2022 by - News

IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) report claims that enterprises are now taking cybersecurity procurement more seriously in an effort to try and stave off a business-threatening event.

The report said that those companies are transforming their business models from linear-based value chains to integrated ecosystems leveraging shared data and insights, applications, and operations.

It said that organisations need to adapt to disruptive trends by forming partnerships that “extend beyond their respective industries” to generate value, build resiliency, foster innovation, and anticipate threats and opportunities.

IDC Future of Industry Ecosystems & Product Innovation Strategies research VP, Jeffrey Hojlo said the industry was still in a version 1.0 phase of IT investment for the future of industry ecosystems with the future of industry ecosystems technology investments still at an early stage.  This highlighted customer data management and systems integration as other key areas for investment.

Monitor market dims

Posted on December 22, 2021 by - News

Beancounters at IDC have been adding up some markets and noticed that the global demand for PC monitors has run out of steam.

The market has declined by 7.2 pe cent compared to the same quarter in 2020. IDC has concluded that the global demand for PC monitors is “cooling” following five consecutive quarters of year-over-year shipment growth.

IDC has attributed the decline to “softening in consumer demand” in North American and Western European markets, as well as supply constraints and changing spending priorities.

Public cloud continues to grow

Posted on December 21, 2021 by - News

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that the European public cloud market is growing at a double-digit pace

The analyst estimates the public cloud supply chain contributed almost $500 billion to European GDP.

Writing in its  Public Cloud’s Contribution to the European Economy: A Macroeconomic Approach report IDC said this has significantly increased over the past two years, with a spike in 2020 due to the digitisation journey that many organisations undertook during the pandemic.

IDC research analyst, European cloud and multi-cloud management, Filippo Vanara said that for the past five years, the public cloud market has significantly changed the IT industry and grown like no other segment of the European IT market.

Global IT and business services revenue is expected to grow

Posted on October 18, 2021 by - News

Global IT and business services revenue is expected to grow by 3.4 percent in 2021, according to IDC beancounters.

The outfit claims that the market will grow by six percent year on year, due to foreign exchange fluctuation, the analyst added.

IDC claims the services market is forecast to top $1.1 trillion in 2021, adding this is consistent with what major vendors have been reporting in the first and second quarters of this year.

IDC Global Services Markets and Trends research director, Xiao-Fei Zhang said that the need for digital transformation and the demographic squeeze on talent, expedited by the pandemic, global supply chain disruptions, and loose monetary policies, have created the perfect push and pull for enterprise buyers.

Supply chains are biting according to IDC

Posted on October 13, 2021 by - News

Rusty chain - Wikimedia CommonsThe global PC market has been tiggered by supply chain challenges during the third quarter of 2021, according to IDC.

IDC added up some numbers and divided by its shoe size to discover that shipments of PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, reached 86.7 million units, up 3.9 percent year on year.

It marks the sixth consecutive quarter of growth for the PC market, IDC claims, as the onset of the pandemic has led to a surge in demand while also contributing to component shortages and other supply challenges.

IDC’s Mobile and Consumer Device Trackers re, Jitesh Ubrani said that the PC industry continues to be hampered by supply and logistical challenges and unfortunately these issues have not seen much improvement in recent months.

“Given the current circumstances, we are seeing some vendors reprioritise shipments amongst various markets, allowing emerging markets to maintain growth momentum while some mature markets begin to slow.”

Server sales slump

Posted on September 13, 2021 by - News

Global server market revenues dropped 2.5 percent year over year to $23.6 billion during the second quarter, according to the latest IDC figures.

IDC beancounters counted more than 3.2 million during the quarter which was an increase of 0.1 percent over the previous year. The analyst claimed volume server revenue was up 5.6 percent to nearly $20 billion.

However, the midrange and high-end server downturn had a knock-on effect for the overall market, with IDC publishing declines of 30 pe cent to $2.4 billion for the midrange and 32.7 percent to $1.3 billion for the high-end.

IDC said that server market performance was muted in the second quarter as the market shifted slightly towards single-socket server configurations.

IDC Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies senior research analyst, Paul Maguranis said: “While servers purchased directly from ODMs declined year over year, some past backlog recovery within the hyperscale datacenter community contributed to a large jump in this segment when compared to the first quarter of this year.”

People stop taking their tablets

Posted on August 27, 2021 by - News, Products

Beancounters at IDC have noted that tablet market shipments in EMEA have declined year-on-year for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Shipments reached 11.8 million units in EMEA during the second quarter of 2021, representing a 1.7 percent year-on-year decline which the IDC puts down to “a slowdown in consumer demand”.

But volumes still remain significantly above the pre-pandemic period, up 22.4 percent compared with 2019, which the IDC claims indicate an increase in the total addressable market

IDC Associate research director, Nikolina Jurisic said that market performance was affected by the unfavourable YoY comparison, as 2Q20 witnessed an avalanche of shipments to address home learning and entertainment.

“Slate tablets lost popularity as social restrictions eased, whereas detachable tablets continued on a strong positive trajectory, gaining from the notebook-like experience, new product launches, and versatility that supports hybrid working and learning.”

IDC says cloud IaaS and PaaS are critical to avoid future Pain in the Ass (PitA)

Posted on August 9, 2021 by - News

Analyst outfit IDC is rattling its crystal balls and is predicting cloud IaaS and PaaS are ‘critical’ components for the future of digital infrastructure

The number cruncher said that the combined global Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) markets will reach revenues of $400 billion in 2025.

In addition, the analyst claims the combined markets will have a CAGR of 28.8 percent during the 2021-2025 forecast period.

Cloud Infrastructure Services research manager, Andrew Smith said enterprise spending on public cloud infrastructure continues to grow faster than traditional IT infrastructure segments.

“We expect all workload segments to grow in the double digits — some slightly faster than others — as enterprises emerge from 2020 and continue to prioritise workload migration and modernisation using public cloud infrastructure.”

PC sales still growing despite chip shortage

Posted on July 13, 2021 by - News

Predictions that the PC sales surge will run out of steam due to the chip shortage and the winding down of lockdowns seem to be about as accurate as a UK government assessment of the impact of Brexit.

Figures in from IDC found that the global PC market continued to gain momentum in the second quarter, despite ongoing component shortages and logistics issues.

Figures from IDC found that global shipments grew 13.2 percent in the second quarter of 2020, reaching 83.6 million units.

Cloud infrastructure spending growing like topsy

Posted on July 6, 2021 by - News

Global spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 12.5 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2021 to $15.1 billion.

Beancounters from IDC have added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that investments in non-cloud infrastructure grew 6.3 percent in the first quarter to $13.5 billion.

The analyst’s data also found that spending on shared cloud infrastructure climbed 11.6 percent year on year in the first quarter, reaching $10.3 billion.

IDC claims coronavirus created a Unified Coms boom

Posted on October 5, 2020 by - News

The coronavirus pandemic has fuelled a boom in the use of unified communications and collaboration (UCC) tools according to beancounters at IDC.

IDC numbers covering the second quarter revealed that worldwide UCC revenue increased by 25.1 percent year over year (YoY), and 12.4 percent quarter over quarter to $11.5 billion in the second quarter.

Tools that could help workers continue to be secure and productive at home were some of the largest growers in terms of revenue. IDC broke down the categories to reveal that the UC collaboration market, which includes video-conferencing software and cloud services, produced a 46.9 percent increase in revenues. The managed/hosted voice/unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) market also improved by 20.4 percent YoY, and enterprise video-conferencing systems were also up by 21.5 percent.

IP telephone and on-premise UC systems segment delivered a 21.8 percent decline in the second quarter.

IDC names Sophos a mobile threat management leader

Posted on September 14, 2020 by - News

Sophos has been opening the champers after being named IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Mobile Threat Management Software 2020 Vendor Assessment  mobile security leader.

The report evaluates the product offerings and business strategies of 10 mobile threat management (MTM) vendors and names Sophos Intercept X for Mobile as the top product in protecting Android, iOS and Chrome OS users from known and never before seen mobile threats.

According to the report: “Sophos’ combination of MTM and UEM products is rare among MTM vendors and unique among vendors in this study. This combination gives Sophos a strong advantage in situations where enterprises want a single vendor for both mobile device management and security enforcement.”

Server market revenue grows

Posted on September 11, 2020 by - News

The worldwide server market revenue grew 19.8 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2020, according to new figures from IDC.

The analyst outfit says revenue reached $24 billion in 2Q20.

Meanwhile, worldwide server shipments grew 18.4 percent  year over year to 3.2 million units in 2Q20.

Volume server revenue was up 22.1 per cent  to $18.7 billion, while midrange server revenue declined 0.4 percent  to about $3.3 billion and high-end systems grew by 44.1 percent  to $1.9 billion.

IDC Senior research analyst, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies Paul Maguranis said that Global demand for enterprise servers was strong during the second quarter of 2020. 

Half of organisations struggle with data management

Posted on June 25, 2020 by - News

Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management Company, today announced the results from an IDC White Paper study it commissioned to evaluate the magnitude of the data sprawl problem and how IT organisations are prepared to deal with it.

The white paper with the catchy title The Data-Forward Enterprise: How to Maximise Data Leverage for Better Business Outcomes said that more than 80 percent of IT leaders surveyed by IDC identify data sprawl as one of the most critical problems their organisations must address today. Given that the volume of data companies need to manage is expected to more than double every two years, IDC analysts predict that the challenge of managing data sprawl will only grow increasingly complicated.