Modest decline for global HPC sales

Worldwide factory revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical server market declined modestly year-over-year by -2,6% to $2,45-billion in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), down from $2,51-billion in the same period of 2013. This is according to the...

Altron warns on earnings decline

Allied Electronics (Altron) has issued a trading statement warning shareholders that earnings for the financial half-year ended 31 August 2014 will be substantially lower than last year.

Mobile sales increase as PCs decline

There is definitely an ongoing shift in IT strategy in 2014, which is expected to lead to a bigger move away from the desktop to an inexorable support for mobile technology, says Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies. According to a recent survey of 440 IT...

Weak storage demand drives revenue fall

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues fell -1,4% year-over-year to nearly $5,9-billion during the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14). This is according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the...
PC decline halted in MEA

PC decline halted in MEA

The Middle East and Africa PC market brought seven successive quarters of year-on-year declines to a halt in Q2 2014, posting long-awaited annual growth of 2,2% to total 4,5-million units. Compiled by global advisory and consulting services firm International Data...