IDC further downgrades PC forecast

Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to fall by -9,7% in 2013, further deepening what is already the longest market contraction on record, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The new forecast reflects not only a continued expansion of mobile device...

Western European LFP market contracts

The Western European large-format printer (LFP) market has declined in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), with shipments falling by 14,6% year-on-year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). With the exception of a few Scandinavian markets, Western...

Hard copy market returns to growth

According to research released by International Data Corporation (IDC), in the second quarter of 2013 the overall hardware market returned to growth, with commercial markets leading the way as laser shipments increased year-on-year by 11,6%, while inkjet shipments...

More competition in application management

Newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) research shows that the worldwide and US discrete application management (AM) services market reached nearly $50-billion in 2012. The top 10 vendors in the market, as measured by total discrete AM revenues,...

Worldwide FOBS market on growth curve

The worldwide file- and object-based storage (FOBS) market continues to gain momentum with revenues exceeding $23-billion in 2013 and forecast to reach $38-billion in 2017. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), growth in the overall...