Analyst firm IDC has lowered its expectations for the global PC market this year, blaming the drop on the demand …
Oracle returns growth to Sun server business: IDC
Oracle logged a small milestone in its Sun acquisition during the first quarter, expanding sales of Sun’s server hardware for …
Staffing dominates regional CIO challenges: IDC
By Sathya Mithra Ashok Staffing issues, including recruitment, retention and development, will remain the biggest challenge for regional CIOs in …
Networking to become cheaper in 2011: IDC
IDC analyst Jamie Jin said virtualisation will be a major trend across the sector, with the cost of networking for …
IDC: Tablets, weak spending hurt PC shipments in Q4
Worldwide PC shipments were slower than expected during the fourth quarter of 2010, hurt by competition from tablets and a …
Cloud computing dominates IDC conference agenda
Running under the theme 'Building a Smarter Infrastructure', the event attracted more than 170 of the UAE's most prominent IT …
Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says
The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought …
Server sales post biggest jump since 2003, IDC says
Worldwide server sales posted their biggest jump since 2003 during the second quarter as Hewlett-Packard outsold rival IBM to take …
IDC: Virtualisation helps boost switch sales
Ethernet switch revenue grew by 32.7 percent year-over-year during the second quarter, helped by the growing popularity of applications such …
IDC market view- applications
Power from information: It’s time for enterprises in the Middle East to reconfigure their business processes with the right information …
10 IDC tech predictions 2010
1. Next year will be the year of the private cloud. Most IT managers have already begun to offer service-oriented …
IDC: Worldwide disk storage capacity grows 33% in 2009
The amount of disk storage capacity shipped worldwide grew 33.4% in 2009, with more than 3.3 petabytes worth of capacity …
IDC: Avoid 'one-size fits all' for desktop virtualisation
Users looking to move to desktop virtualisation should be wary of thinking that it's a panacea of all their desktop …
IDC: Storage Efficiency Demand Drives Deduplication Adoption
According to new survey results from IDC, over 60% of respondents are either in the process of deduplicating or have …
AMD takes processor market share from Intel, IDC says
Advanced Micro Devices gained share in worldwide processor shipments at the expense of rival Intel during the fourth quarter of …
AMD takes processor market share from Intel, IDC says
Advanced Micro Devices gained share in worldwide processor shipments at the expense of rival Intel during the fourth quarter of …
Amazon EC2's model is a solution for shelfware, says IDC
Sick of overpaying for features they don't need or use, enterprise customers are eager for software vendors to enable pay-per-use …
Mobile phone shipments drop 11% in Q2, IDC says
The worldwide mobile phone market remained weak in the second quarter despite some encouraging signs in smartphone shipments, market researcher …
SAS takes top honours in advanced analytics, says IDC report
SAS has been positioned as a clear leader in the overall in advanced analytics market, according to the latest ‘Worldwide …
Q2 PC shipments beats expectations, says IDC
PC shipments were slightly stronger than expected in the second quarter, propped up by consumer spending and lower prices, according …