IT departments will work to improve capacity-control systems, drive disaster recovery centralisation and consistency, and bring in new technology to support the rapid growth of virtualisation and personal storage systems, according to IDC’s top ten storage predictions for 2007.
A new IDC study says that the growth in adoption of stand-alone open source software is accelerating and that the total market will be worth US$5.8 billion (NZ$7.7 billion) in 2011.
Efforts to curb software piracy in China are bearing fruit although the piracy rate remains high, costing vendors billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a survey paid for by large vendors, including Apple and Microsoft.
The future holds great opportunities for niche players in the local ICT market as large organisations engage with multiple outsourcing providers and move away from single sourcing.
The Australian security software market is set to rise a staggering 65% by 2010, as vendors continue to binge on acquisitions to provide more bundled offerings, and users beef-up security infrastructure to combat new threats.
Storage has long been overshadowed by other, more exciting and dynamic market segments. It has been accused of being boring and even called derogatory names such as “snorage”.
The local enterprise applications market will grow steadily over the next five years, says research company IDC.
Bruce Springsteen made more than a few dollars singing ‘Dancing in the Dark’. In fact, it won him a Grammy in 1985. Question: how many New Zealand organisations are betting their income — or their functionality — by dancing in their own darkness, as defined by research companies and their analysts?
While the overall software piracy rate worldwide remained at a high 35% last year — the same as in 2004 — the piracy rate in 51 of the 97 countries surveyed declined, according to a new joint-study from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and market research company IDC.
The theme running through the reaction to Minister of Communications David Cunliffe’s thorough and tough regulatory package is one of total surprise.
Microsoft's delay in shipping its Windows Vista operating system won't put a big dent in PC sales, although growth for the PC industry is going to slow in the coming years, IDC predicts.
Global IT spending should grow by 6.3% in 2006, driven by software spending, but that growth would be smaller than the 6.9% in 2005, says IDC.
Enterprises are buying more replication, backup and archiving storage software, market analyst IDC found in its most recent quarterly storage software report.
Research firm IDC is playing down allegations by Toshiba that some vendors are inflating their sales figures in the cut-throat Australia New Zealand notebook market.
The combined New Zealand desktop and notebook market has reached its highest ever level, according to IDC New Zealand. 142,183 units were shipped in the third quarter of 2005, a 20% increase compared to the same period last year.