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IDC adds to tablet PC scepticism
News Market researcher IDC also predicts that tablet PCs will get off to a relatively slow start, selling about 575,000 units in the United States in 2003 and about 1 million units in 2004. The total US notebook market will be about 13 million units in...
[November 7, 2002, 8:07]
IDC Executive Brief: Driving Enterprise Change Management for Business Responsiveness
White Papers This IDC Executive Brief will lay out the factors supporting market growth, the benefits of coordination, and the need for process and organization strategies as a complement to automated tools. Multiple drivers are pushing market growth and...
[January 25, 2007, 11:19]
IDC: Low-cost laptop no threat to PC
News Inexpensive, stripped-down notebook computers targeted at emerging markets are not likely to take off, but if they do, they will have no major impact on the "fully-fledged" PC market, predicts a senior executive at IDC.
[June 18, 2007, 9:56]
IDC rejigs sales forecast after Vista delay
News PC companies will feel a small amount of pain this year from the delay of Microsoft's Vista operating system, according to a new forecast from IDC. Worldwide PC shipment growth is expected to be 10.5 percent, down slightly from expectations of 10.6...
[March 28, 2006, 13:35]
IDC: Biggest quarterly drop in 12 years for servers
News First-quarter server revenue dropped by 24.5 percent year-over-year, as economic turmoil bit ever deeper into companies' IT budgets, according to IDC. The totals mark the third consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline, and the lowest...
[May 29, 2009, 16:33]
Linux 'missed Aussie desktop wave' - IDC
News However, Australian IDC market analyst Michael Sager said the post-Y2K refresh had started in Australia a year and a half ago and was expected to finish during the second quarter of this year. The general opinion of IDC is that these are very early...
[May 24, 2004, 10:05]
IDC: PC market on the comeback trail
News After two tough years, the PC market will experience tangible growth again in 2003 and 2004 due in part to the rise of wireless, according to market research firm IDC. Shipments of desktops, notebooks and servers based around PC architectures will...
[December 6, 2002, 10:18]
IDC: Online gaming rules in Asia
News The popularity of Internet gaming in Asia has topped online buying, says market researcher International Data Corp (IDC). The past year has seen the industry transitioning from an initial phase of development into a more mature market," said Chin...
[January 16, 2003, 15:22]
IDC sees IT rebound in Europe
News According to research from analyst firm IDC, nine million IT workers and their companies in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region are already generating more than $200bn in tax receipts. We are in the midst of an IT rebound in EMEA...
[October 5, 2004, 15:05]
IDC predicts utility computing boom
News As technology suppliers ease systems management, spending for products that deal in utility computing will surge in coming years, analyst firm IDC is predicting. Spending of $1bn in 2003 is expected to double this year and to increase to about...
[January 15, 2004, 8:50]
Business Value of Performance: IDC
White Papers This IDC paper explains how Riverbed, whose product line--the Steelhead family of appliances--optimizes TCP/IP traffic, addresses these issues with a single wide-area data services (WDS) solution so that users can enjoy LAN-like access to...
[September 22, 2009, 16:43]
VMware, IDC play virtualisation hardball
News Virtualisation company VMware has publicly disputed the way in which key research into the virtualisation market was undertaken by analysts IDC, and disputed figures that appear to show a rapid growth by a competitive product from Microsoft.
[October 24, 2008, 17:15]
IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoption
News The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organisation IDC. In a survey of 330 organisations with 100 or more employees, IDC found that 53 percent were planning to increase adoption of...
[March 17, 2009, 12:36]
IDC: Tech to hit bottom in 2002
News Research firm IDC said that the worldwide information technology industry will suffer its largest decline ever in 2002, shrinking by 2.3 percent. The worldwide storage market is expected to be hardest hit this year, according to IDC, with spending...
[November 21, 2002, 8:08]
Windows Mobile: Quantifying the Return on Investment - IDC Study
White Papers Analyst firm IDC conducted in-depth interviews with executives at 15 companies in order to quantify the business benefits for companies with 50 to 1,000 employees. You know that Windows Mobile has the potential to boost your business but how do you...
[June 9, 2008, 9:28]
IDC raises sales estimates for 2004
News Researcher IDC has raised its estimate for the number of PCs that will be sold in 2004, saying it now expects sales of 176.5 million units, the company said on Monday. IDC said the higher estimate reflects 17.2 percent growth in commercial PC...
[September 28, 2004, 10:00]
Comdex '99: IDC predicts sharp fall in UK phone charges
News The cost of using the Internet in the UK is about to fall sharply, as local flat rate charging schemes start to come online in the next eighteen months, according to IDC analyst, Mark Winther. Earlier at the same session, IDC's Senior Vice...
[November 17, 1999, 17:23]
IDC revises PC forecast upwards
News Market research firm IDC on Thursday raised its forecast for worldwide PC shipments this year and next, thanks in part to evidence of a recovery in business spending on computer equipment. IDC now predicts that shipments of desktops, notebooks and...
[December 12, 2003, 11:20]
IDC predicts a bright future for Itanium
News Itanium market awareness is high, not only among the HP server customers who would be expected to know of the processor but also among others, according to a February report from IDC based on a survey of 501 computer system managers at US...
[February 14, 2006, 14:05]
Exclusive: IDC predicts 3Com Palm champ till 2002
News A report by research firm IDC reveals 3Com's Palm will remain market leader in the PDA arena, at least until 2002 when Psion's EPOC will slip dramatically. IDC analyst and author of the report, Alison McKenzie, predicts Palm's share will drop to...
[July 13, 1999, 15:11]
