International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 31

The report says New Zealand telecommunications companies are transitioning to become genuine digital services providers.

The IDC's latest report reveals the US dominates software and AI spending, while China leads in IoT, AR/VR, and robotics, igniting the ICT market battle.

IDC profiled the Robotic process automation offerings from Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Datamatics, Kofax, UiPath and WorkFusion.

APeJ is one of the fastest growing market areas for digital signage and Samsung leads the way with ⅓ of the market.

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

Data and analytics are key to modern businesses, but ethics must be considered. This interview discusses the power and challenges of data collection.

With data, AI is just a bunch of fancy code. But in order to capitalise on data's potential, we need to look critically at how it is stored.

Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are driving the global smart home market, projected to hit 643.9 million shipments in 2018.

New Zealand is becoming a global leader in smart TV adoption, with a 44% adoption rate second only to South Korea, according to research firm IDC.

The combined consumer and enterprise WLAN market segments rose 1.9% year over year in the second quarter of 2018.

Dell Inc. takes the top spot with HPE coming in at number two as global market revenue reaches US$22.5 billion.

Despite global shipment numbers dropping by more than a third, the market outlook is still positive an IDC Tracker report shows.

While VR headset shipments have fallen 33.7% since last year, IDC says there is set to be a u-turn as the commercial sector gains traction.

Apple's share of the market continues to grow along with Chinese competitors Xiaomi and Huawei. Fitbit still in decline.

IDC says the telco industry is scrambling to convert entire data centres from vertically integrated stacks to software-defined infrastructure.

A new report shows the shift to software-defined infrastructure will lead the telco compute and storage infrastructure market to over US$16b by 2022.

An inaugural report on composable/disaggregated infrastructure from IDC shows that it will go from US$300m to $3.4b in next five years.

2-in-1s, ultra-slim notebooks and gaming PCs will keep market value growing, despite dropping sales numbers, says IDC.

For the first half of the year, shipments are up 3.5% while revenue is up over 5% compared to the first half of 2017.

The new network functions virtualisation infrastructure category is under carrier network infrastructure and looks to be a high growth area.