Salesforce launches Salesforce Talent Alliance (STA) initiative
Salesforce has started an alliance that aims to increase the number of skilled Salesforce workers, named the Salesforce Talent Alliance. The aim here is to meet the demand which IDC estimates will generate about 4.2 million new jobs in the next three years.
The alliance is not too limited and we... Read more
Global AI spend is going to double in less than five years
Over the next four years, businesses worldwide will spend double the current budgets on AI. The new report from IDC claims that global spending will surpass $110 billion by 2024, from the current $50.1 billion.
According to the stats for the 2019-2024 period, the compound annual growth rate will... Read more
Enterprises using data collection will have challenges to leverage it
Seagate and IDC conducted a survey on the actions businesses and enterprises will have to take, to leverage their collected data. The survey was conducted between December 2019 and January 2020. A total of 1,500 respondents from all over the world were involved.
A glance at the report shows that... Read more
IDC predicts IT spending to drop by 5.1 percent by 2020
The IDC predicts that overall spending on technology will drop by 5.1 percent this year. The ongoing corona crisis is forcing companies to cut IT spending.
The IDC originally predicted that IT spending would grow by 5 percent this year. The company revised the prediction in March after... Read more
IT spendings likely much lower due to corona virus COVID-19
The corona virus outbreak is now officially a pandemic, and companies are obviously noticing the consequences. According to research bureau IDC, the financial consequences will specifically be noticeable in IT.
IDC initially expected a 4% growth in IT spending in 2020, but due to the effects of ... Read more
Cloud spending is increasingly concentrated around the five largest providers
Expenditure on the public cloud is increasingly concentrated around the five largest providers in this area. That's what IDC's records show. The consolidation of expenditure is even higher in Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service (IaaS and PaaS).
The five largest cloud providers accounted for 46.... Read more
“Lenovo conquers first place in growing PC market.
Computer manufacturer Lenovo is lobbying over HP Inc. and may call itself the world's largest PC manufacturer for the second quarter of this year. Lenovo achieves that place in a market that is again growing cautiously.
The PC market is growing, and Lenovo is reaping the most rewards from this. That... Read more
Spending on public cloud will double in the next four years
According to IDC, global spending on public cloud infrastructure and services will double from $229 billion (€204 billion) this year to $500 billion in 2023. The growth is mainly driven by the continuous adoption of services by enterprises in professional services, telecommunications and retai... Read more
Cloud infrastructure for the first time more important than traditional IT
The revenue generated in the cloud sector in the third quarter of last year was for the first time greater than that generated in the traditional IT sector. This trend will continue in the coming years.
In the third quarter of 2018, total sales in the cloud market were $16.8 billion. That's what IDC... Read more
“In the next few years, massive growth in spending on rollout of 5G networks.
Expenditure on the roll-out of 5G networks is expected to continue to grow in the coming years. Until 2022, IDC expects expenditure to continue to increase by 118 percent annually. The roll-out of 5G networks will therefore accelerate.
In any case, this is what the IDC predicts in its first forecast... Read more