International Data Corporation (IDC) stories - Page 18

Research from IDC has revealed that worldwide revenues of data privacy management software grew by 46.1% year-over-year in 2020.

New Zealand's smartphone market experiences highest annual growth in 7 years, with a 30.1% increase in Q1 2021, according to IDC.

The appetite for wearable devices remained strong in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21) even as volumes retreated from record fourth quarter levels, IDC finds.

Despite ongoing semiconductor shortages, the PC market is thriving with shipments expected to grow 18.1% in 2021, according to IDC.

This represents a 7.7% increase from 2020, and IDC says the trend will continue: in 2022, shipments will total 1.43 billion — a year-over-year increase of 3.8%.

SAS has expanded support for additional cloud providers, as the demand for public cloud deployments of big data and analytics software grows.

Software spending in Australia and New Zealand reached $13 billion in 2020, a 7% rise, according to IDC's latest report.

Pantheon has launched Autopilot, a solution that automates website management by detecting, performing, testing, and deploying updates.

Worldwide semiconductor market continues to grow, with revenue reaching $464bn in 2020, and expected to grow to $522bn in 2021, according to IDC.

Data-driven organisations must evaluate evolving requirements for backup and disaster recovery to combat emerging workload challenges.

Huawei drops out of top 5 smartphone vendors for the first time as Chinese brands like Xiaomi and OPPO surge, says IDC.

Spending on blockchain solutions is set to reach $6.6 billion this year, with strong growth expected in the coming years, according to IDC.

Workday has announced new capabilities in its Workday Extend solution to help organizations accelerate their digital efforts and increase business value.

Asia Pacific's ICT spending is projected to grow by 4.9% to reach $924bn this year, and is expected to exceed $1tn by 2024, according to IDC.

Connectivity will play an increasingly important role in organizations' resilience as the consequences of COVID-19 persist, according to IDC.

Smart home device shipments reached 801.5 million in 2020, set to reach 1.4 billion by 2025, says a study by the International Data Corporation.

That means that most data was essentially created to be consumed, or cached and overwritten with new data, says IDC.

Demand for education devices and switches to notebooks leads to strongest year of PC shipments in New Zealand, according to IDC research.

IDC states worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, a year-over-year increase of 27.2%.

Despite organisations cutting spending in many areas during 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19, security remains a consistent area of increased investment.