International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 23

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the IT economy hard and IDC says that pessimistic scenarios are now playing out – and may get worse.

Manufacturing disruption, closed borders, remote working and learning, economic downturn - it might pay to get that purchase in now.

Four New Zealand projects, including two from Christchurch City Council, have been named finalists in IDC's prestigious Asia Pacific Smart Cities Awards.

AR and VR headsets will see shipments decline in the near term due to COVID-19, but the long-term outlook is positive, according to IDC.

IDC report analyses a range of factors that will affect the semiconductor market this year and presents the most likely scenario.

Nutanix enhances its platform with Nutanix Objects 2.0, adding features for big data workloads, including multi-cluster support and increased storage capacity.

After AWS and Azure, Alibaba Cloud is the third biggest public cloud provider in the market and is showing no sign of slowing down.

Depending on how the economic factors around COVID-19 play out, a pessimistic scenario would see spending growth nowhere near the 4.3% expected.

The long list of ICT markets that are being disrupted by the virus’ effect on manufacturing includes desktops, laptops, workstations and tablets.

Named as one of the leading service providers in the recently released IDC Perspective: Six Capabilities from Leading RPA Service Providers.

The disruption to the manufacturing centres in China will cause a huge dip in the growth of the global smartphone market for 2020.

COVID-19 disrupts China's economy but opens doors for ICT vendors with opportunities in digital platforms, healthcare, and contactless services, IDC reports.

Australian enterprises are leveraging IoT to boost internal and customer productivity, with 44% already implementing the technology, IDC reports.

Building relationships and partnerships with IoT vendors is top priority for New Zealand's large enterprises, says IDC.

IT spending to increase in 2020, but PC sales and Coronavirus disruption will impact overall growth, says IDC Black Books.

In 2020 the emphasis shifts from DX technologies to underlying organisational structures and innovation ecosystems.

The new report provides IDC's vision for digital transformation through to 2025 supplying direction to New Zealand organisations.

Huawei faces significant hurdles as smartphone shipments decline, fuelled by ongoing trade war woes and coronavirus uncertainties, IDC data reveals.

NTT NZ CEO Simon Gillespie discusses the company's ambitious future plans, leveraging a 2019 merger to bring innovation and edge technologies to local markets.

As the IoT tech expands, virtual simulations of physical environments are becoming an increasingly critical piece of an enterprise digital strategy.