Massive growth for cloud infrastructure

Total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage and Ethernet switch) will grow by 21% year-over-year to $32-billion in 2015, accounting for approximately 33% of all IT infrastructure spending – which will be up from about 28% in 2014. According to...

The rise of social in talent management

Although the importance of social technology is on a steady rise in the minds of HR buyers, mobile, cloud and analytics are still seen as more important. Despite this, many talent management vendors are bringing forward good technology in support of compelling social...

Manufacturers turn to cloud services

The transition to “cloud also” or “cloud first” is well under way for manufacturers around the globe, according to new survey results from IDC. In fact, in the US, 41% of manufacturing respondents indicated they are accessing IT resources via...

Wal-Mart world’s biggest IT spender

A new study released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that, including internal spending, the world’s largest companies spent $895-billion on technology in 2014. IT vendors long to harness a share of their hefty IT wallets not only for the...

Integrated infrastructure, platforms grow

According to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platform Tracker, vendor revenue for the worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms market increased 19,4% year-over-year to $2,7-billion in the...