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Prague, September 4, 2015 – IT services spending in the CEE region is bound to emerge from the prolonged stagnation and return to growth in 2015, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The CEE IT services market (excluding Russia) will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 4.8% to exceed $11 billion in total IT services spending in 2019. Business confidence is returning, with the implication that a great many of the users are expecting to increase IT services spending compared with the previous year. (TZ)

Prague, September 1, 2015 – Public cloud services are gradually gaining acceptance in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with total market value expected to reach $386 million (excluding Russia) in 2015, according to a cloud market report series published by International Data Corporation (IDC)

Prague, August 31, 2015 – For many years, the most requested article from the Harvard Business Review was the 1990 classic “The Core Competence of the Corporation”. (TZ)

Prague, August 17, 2015 — Tablet shipments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) fell by 21.4% in the second quarter of 2015 compared to the same quarter in the previous year, to 2.8 million units shipped, according to the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Quarterly Tablet Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC).

Prague, August 7, 2015 – Following a very strong 2014, cloud spending on enterprise infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) declined by 7% in the first quarter of 2015, in contrast to 24% year-on-year growth in 2014. These results are revealed in the Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC). (TZ)

PRAGUE, August 4, 2015 – The Internet of Things (IoT) market in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) is expected to expand 22% in 2015 year on year, reaching $14 billion in total value, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). The first-of-its-kind IoT forecast focuses on 25 of the fastest-growing IoT use cases in 11 vertical industries, including manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, government, utilities, retail, and consumer, while also sizing IoT opportunities across the technology stack. (TZ)

PRAGUE, July 28, 2015 – Workstation shipments in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region contracted by 3.4% year on year in first quarter of 2015. Global research and advisory company IDC expects the decline to extend to -5.2% for the full year. (TZ

Prague, July 22, 2015 – In 2014, the Czech external storage market posted an 11.9% value decline in U.S. dollar terms, with each quarter of the year displaying a year-on-year decrease, according to market research published by International Data Corporation (IDC). While these results reflect a five-quarter-long trend of market contraction, the first calendar quarter of 2015 recorded 9.9% growth. IDC believes that, as this growth is the result of regular project cycles, it is the precursor of further growth for 2015 as a whole, albeit precarious. (TZ)

Prague, July 21, 2015 – What can wearable gadgets find out about you that you do not know yourself? Would you want such data shared with your employer? Answering these questions could help to understand the growth potential for commercial wearable devices and offer a glimpse into ways they could change our work environment in the future.