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Article | 24/05/2012 iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped
Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.
Article | 17/05/2012 Android, Samsung top smartphone sales, topping Apple's iPhone
Android smartphones made up 56% of the global smartphones sold to end users in the first quarter of 2012, giving them a far higher share than the 22.9...
Article | 8/05/2012 IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues
The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011...
Article | 12/04/2012 Lenovo gains over Dell as world's second-largest PC maker
Lenovo extended its lead over Dell as the world's second-largest PC maker, but it is too early to say whether the Chinese manufacturer eventually will...
Article | 3/04/2012 iPhone v BlackBerry: Is Apple's battle with RIM won?
While Apple is celebrating news that the marketshare of iOS devices continues to grow, BlackBerry maker RIM has been responding to concerns that it ha...

Features about IDC

Article | 8/12/2010 What's in the Tech Crystal Ball For 2011?
Market research firm IDC makes a number of tech-related predictions near the end of every calendar year, but its prognostications for 2011 may well be...
Article | 8/05/2010 Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer
I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the "2010 Digital Universe Study".
Article | 6/01/2010 2010 tech forecasts: What the accurate analysts predict
A venerable New Year's tradition in the tech world entails trotting out year-old predictions by analyst shops and laughing at their off-base prognosti...

Whitepapers about IDC

The Business Value of Large-Scale Server Consolidation

This paper examines the results of an IDC study of enterprise organizations that have deployed IBM Power Systems to achieve workload consolidation, improved uptime, and reduced operational costs. These systems are highly virtualized platforms that supported consolidation of workloads and provided near-term payback from the initial investment.