Information Technology and Communications research
The slackness of the market will also be apparent in region spending growth. In particular: The Americas will outperform the others, growing by 0.5% to $2.3T; vendors will need to offer innovative products to persuade these sophisticate users to buy yet more technology EMEA will grow by 0.3% to $1.7T; […] Read more »
The USA is by far the largest country market worldwide and within the Americas: in 2016 it will spend $1.7T – 28% of the world total. Growth will be 1.2% – better than other countries in the region. We need the US to grow in order to make up for […] Read more »
EMEA is a region full of country markets. Germany is the largest, followed by the UK. For the second year running I expect the strongest growth (3.8%) to be in Turkey and the steepest decline (-10.7%) to be in Russia. The lifting of sanctions on Iran will lead to growth […] Read more »
Japan and China will be the two largest IT and communications markets in Asia Pacific. For the first time in a number of years I’m not predicting that the region will outgrow the Americas and EMEA: in fact I expect we’ll see a decline in spending in most countries. Even […] Read more »
For an update to this data please click here. Over the last few years there’s been shift in spending away from storage arrays and towards raw storage. I expect this to continue in 2016. In total the market will grow by 2% to $115B, with the strongest growth in raw […] Read more »
Cloud computing will grow by 13% to reach $354B. The strongest growth will be in SaaS (26.3%), which we count as part of the software market. IT services engage to build and manage private, public and hybrid clouds will grow by 16.3%, PaaS by 7.7% and IaaS by 8.1%. The […] Read more »
Cloud computing will grow by 13% to reach $354B. The strongest growth will be in SaaS (26.3%), which we count as part of the software market. IT services engage to build and manage private, public and hybrid clouds will grow by 16.3%, PaaS by 7.7% and IaaS by 8.1%. The […] Read more »
In 2016 I expect consumer spending to decline by 3.2% worldwide to reach $2.2T. Of the business sectors spending by small companies (those with 100 or fewer employees) will grow by 2.2%, while investment by medium businesses (those with between 100 and 1,000 employees) will decline by -0.2% and large […] Read more »
Total spending by businesses in 2016 will be $3.7B. I expect most of the traditional sectors to spend less than they did in 2015. Manufacturing and finance industries will spend 1.0% less, while government investments will drop by 0.6%. I expect retail spending to be the same ($0.7T) as 2015. […] Read more »
Some data on local v dollar growth rates by country Read more »
More on the IT market sending by consumer and business by industry sector Read more »
A note of dramatic falls in international currency values against the $US Read more »
Big differences between local and $US revenue growth in Asia Pacific and EMEA cloud services Read more »
Latest forecast and market share for IaaS/PaaS, SaaS and total cloud services Read more »
Unit shipment stats for client hardware Read more »
Some stats and shares on PC, smart and printer markets worldwide Read more »
A review of the movements in this important IT market Read more »
Q2 results show we're already in another market downturn Read more »
A look at how Toshiba can rescue itself from its current woes. Read more »
A look at Dell, with insights from its 5th annual DAAC conference Read more »