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RIM gets a new PlayBook

...of apps as Android or Apple’s iOS. According to a recent IDC survey, 62% of apps developers expressed strong interest in Android, which compares... Read more

30 September, 2010
Backup and recovery: New strategies drive disk-based solutions

Backup and recovery: New strategies drive disk-based solutions

...in their tape-based backup and recovery infrastructure. These findings from an IDC survey show that data deduplication dramatically effects operating efficiencies, simplifies remote office... Read more

17 June, 2011
NetApp for the Private Cloud: Enable the Delivery of IT as a Service

NetApp for the Private Cloud: Enable the Delivery of IT as a Service

...to decrease costs, improve efficiency, and enhance business agility. In a recent IDC survey of IT decision makers, 44% of respondents indicated that they were... Read more

1 October, 2010

Security tops IT spending in Asia

The latest survey from IDC shows that over half of the enterprises in Asia invested in security solutions in 2002 Read more

21 January, 2003 by Winston Chai

IT budgets may get fatter

An IDC survey says 85 percent of companies plan to increase or maintain their... Read more

26 February, 2003 by Dawn Kawamoto
Microsoft Webcast: IDC Webcast: Improving Desktop Management With Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (Level 100)

Microsoft Webcast: IDC Webcast: Improving Desktop Management With Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (Level 100)

The presenter of this webcast discusses the results of a recent IDC survey of 132 IT professionals worldwide that reports how Microsoft Desktop Optimization... Read more

3 December, 2007

ERP suppliers are slow to adopt SaaS, says Gartner

...say after writing the blog) this came in from IDC: "A recent IDC survey in Western Europe shows that 2009 spending on ERP applications will... Read more

31 March, 2009
Virtualisation: The race is on to corner the market

Virtualisation: The race is on to corner the market

As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualisation tree Read more

18 September, 2008 by Peter Judge

Cutting datacentre costs main driver for virtualisation

...European companies that have adopted virtualisation using VMware software, according to the IDC survey Read more

7 July, 2008 by Colin Barker
Managing Operational Change through ITIL and a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Managing Operational Change through ITIL and a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

...processes deployed today by enterprise IT operations teams. Just under 35% of IDC survey respondents from organizations with 10,000+ employees are using a process... Read more

1 February, 2007

Companies express IT-spending optimism

...research from analyst firm IDC -- which disagrees with its own findings. An IDC survey this month of at least 400 business and technology executives in... Read more

25 August, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Siebel lets software become a service

...the software provider that they pay on an ongoing basis." An earlier IDC survey of 100 vendors found that 43 of them expect a majority... Read more

26 May, 2004 by Dinesh C.Sharma and Stephen Shankland

Companies will spend more on IT this year - IDC

...technology budgets made by Forrester Research in March. And in March, an IDC survey on the global IT market predicted a 5 percent growth for... Read more

6 May, 2004 by ZDNet UK

Homes shelter more mobile devices

...are mobile is key to tapping a red-hot market segment." The IDC survey found that a Wi-Fi connection is the most popular way... Read more

17 December, 2003 by Dinesh C Sharma

IT departments strapped for cash

...infrastructure upgrades for the near term, according to a new study. An IDC survey of 500 North American companies found that IT departments are restricted... Read more

9 September, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

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