IDC

• Article | 27/01/2012 Apple customers voice mixed reaction to reports of poor working conditions

  Amid renewed reports of poor working conditions at factories making Apple products in China, it's unclear whether customers will demand change.
• Article | 14/01/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings season could be stormy

  Get ready for a perfect storm of earnings news. With tech bellwethers including IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Google set to issue financial reports next w...
• Article | 12/01/2012 IDC: PC shipments slumped as 2011 ended

  Sales of personal computers slowed in the last three months of 2011, thanks to a sluggish economy, scarce hard drives and the proliferation of other f...
• Article | 10/01/2012 SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC

  The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further b...
• Article | 29/12/2011 IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say

  Next year will see one more regional Internet registry run out of IPv4 addresses, but 2012 will be more of a year to prepare for the inevitable shift ...

• 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

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  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.