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PRAGUE / FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 20, 2015 – According to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and ethernet switch) grew by 14.4% year over year to $8.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), accounting for approximately 30% of all IT infrastructure spend, up from about 27% one year ago. Private cloud infrastructure spending grew by 18.3% year over year to $2.9 billion, while public cloud infrastructure spending grew to $5.0 billion, 12.3% higher than one year ago. (TZ)

PRAGUE, April 17, 2015 – For the last two years, wearables have been the focus of the consumer electronics market, not only for leading vendors with vast R&D budgets, like Apple, Samsung, and Huawei, but also for high-tech newcomers, such as Pebble, Misfit, and many others, which paved their way through bright ideas and Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns

PRAGUE/FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 13, 2015 – Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.5 million units in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a year-on-year decline of -6.7%, and slightly ahead of previous projections, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.

PRAGUE, April 7, 2015 – The last quarter of 2014 was the weakest quarter of the year for the external storage market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with a 4.7% year-on-year value decline and only 15.9% capacity growth. Market performance for the entire year was almost flat (-0.3%), with total value just below the 1 billion dollar threshold. Overall capacity in the region jumped 23.9% from the previous year, almost reaching 1 Exabyte. (TZ)

PRAGUE, April 3, 2015 – The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) thin client market is settling down after a brisk 2014, which witnessed 7.9% year-on-year unit growth and 1.97 million units shipped, according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker published by global IT market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). (TZ

PRAGUE, April 3,2015 – PC shipments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) totaled 18.55 million units in 2014, representing a year-on-year decline of 14.0%, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The market contracted for the second year in a row, inhibited by currency fluctuations and economic slowdown in the Eastern part of the region. Portable PC shipments dropped 14.5% year on year to 11.92 million units, while desktop shipments declined 12.9% to 6.63 million units. (TZ)

PRAGUE/MOSCOW, March 27, 2015 – IDC launched Russia ICT Market Outlook , a new quarterly service tracking the supply and consumption of IСT products and services in the country in the context of recent dramatic economic and political events. Since the 1990s, suppliers to Russia have had to deal with several periods of instability.

PRAGUE, March 20, 2015 – No industry is safe. As the pace of IT development continues to accelerate, the likelihood of disruption soars. Even so-called minor innovations have the potential to send ripples across the economy, upending business models and internal processes alike. Individual firms should nevertheless pause, take a breath, and assess the dynamics of their sector to determine the ICT expectations and what the firm needs to do to remain competitive.

Prague, January 28, 2015 – In Q4 2014, the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) external storage market could not maintain the momentum from the preceding quarter and contracted by 1.9% year on year to $215.66 million, according to the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker published by global market research firm IDC. Corresponding market capacity increased 18.9% year on year to 212.0PB, but quarter-on-quarter performance was flat. (TZ)