The country manager of research firm IDC, Amit Gupta, has been promoted to an Asia Pacific sales director role, the company announced at its Christmas dinner in Auckland last night.
He will be replaced by Auckland-based Ullrich Loeffler, programme manager for ANZ software and IT services.
IT spending will drop next year as a direct result of global financial problems, according to analyst firm IDC. it will grow by less than half as much as earlier predicted by IDC.
Analyst firm IDC is warning Australians that the overall value in iPhone 3G pricing plans leaves a lot to be desired and comes with costly excess usage charges.
Instant messaging (IM) is set to overtake email as the preferred form of business communication by the second half of 2010, according to research by IDC.
Auckland is making strides in the increasingly competitive Asia Pacific global delivery market, gaining ground on traditional power cities in India and China, according to analysts IDC.
As New Zealand faces tougher economic times, the pressure will be on IT managers to deliver even more cost savings.
Enterprises are facing an exploding "culture of connectivity", with global information workers using an increasing number of devices and applications, according to an IDC study.
Analyst firm IDC did not deliver any shocking future predictions at its IDC Directions conference, held in Auckland last week.
The arrival of the iPhone in New Zealand later this year will put the heat on mobile operators to deliver improved data plans and coverage as users embrace mobile internet applications.
Conquering IT security is a breeze for CIOs, according to a new local IDC report.
Digital information is being created at a faster pace than previously thought, and for the first time, the amount of digital information created each year has exceeded the world's available storage space, according to a report from analyst firm IDC.
Research and analysis firm IDC predicts the ICT skills market will tighten further in 2008, causing project costs to rise and prompting even more aggressive headhunting.
The local software market will increase at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 8.2%, predicts IDC. The market is expected to reach a value of $940.6 million in 2011, compared with $635.4 in 2006, according to a recent IDC report.
In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world’s beaches.
CIOs and IT managers should prepare to spend more time in the boardroom and on the road with marketing executives, because increasing amounts of digital information, extra security requirements and tighter integration with the business are changing the way they need to approach their jobs.