Global IT market looking up

Global IT market looking up

The recent volatility in the IT spending market will gradually give way to a more positive outlook in the second half of 2014. This is according to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book. With the US and other mature economies...

Huge growth in infrastructure spending

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), revenue for the worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms market increased 45,6% year-over-year to nearly $7,6-billion during calendar year 2013. The market generated 2,4 exabytes of new storage capacity...

MEA government spend to rise

Governments in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) will spend $11,9-billion on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of 2,3% over 2013 revenue of US $ 11,7-billion, according to Gartner. This forecast includes internal IT (including personnel), hardware,...

MEA infrastructure spend to reach $3,47bn

IT infrastructure spending, comprising storage, server and enterprise networking equipment, in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is forecast to reach $3,47-billion, a 4,1% increase from 2013, according to Gartner. “CIOs in the Gulf are beginning to prepare their...

Cloud spending to triple by 2017

An increasing move on the part of enterprise businesses to migrate their IT services, applications and infrastructure to a cloud-based architecture will cause market revenue in this segment to surge by a factor of three from 2011 to 2017, according to HIS Technology....