IDC spending guides stories

The spend is an increase of more than 50% compared to last year.>>

"Sales of smart home devices have remained fairly resilient during the global Covid-19 pandemic.">>

Demand for education devices and continued switches from desktops to notebooks has driven an increase in notebook sales leading to the strongest year of PC shipments on record.>>

"Companies will adopt AI — not just because they can, but because they must,">>

While spending on some technologies, like cloud and remote platforms, has seen an uptick, IDC says a ‘significant’ overall contraction will be felt in the next few months.>>

Recent forecasts may point towards declines in overall tech spending in 2020, but there also opportunities where business may be looking to increase short-term investments as part of their response to the COVID-19 crisis.>>

Blockchain spending is forecast to grow by 83.9% year over year in 2019, and 77.5% by 2022.>>

“The Asia/Pacific region recognises that its no longer “under-the-radar” as far as breaches, hacks, and legislation is concerned.”>>

After two quarters of near 10% growth, the Australian PC market dipped -2.5% in 4Q18 - a trend that looks set to continue in 2019.>>

Spending on AI will hit close to US$36 billion with retail leading the way, followed by banking, according to IDC.>>

New IDC forecast expects the Internet of Things spending in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan to reach US$381.8 Billion by 2022.>>

The IDC spending guide has expanded the scope of its spending guide to over 100 cities and 30 use cases. >>

The United States will be largest geographic market for security solutions with total spending of $39.3 billion this year. >>

IDC forecasts worldwide spending to exceed $14 billion in 2019, an increase of 23.2% over 2018.>>