The worldwide mobile phone market grew 65.4 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11), with Apple making it to the top for the first time.
New research from International Data Corporation (IDC) showed that worldwide revenue for servers deployed to public clouds will reach $3.6 billion in 2015, while private cloud server revenue will balloon to $5.8 billion.
Cloud computing will continue to reshape the IT landscape over the next five years as spending on public IT cloud services expands at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.6 percent, from $21.5 billion in 2010 to $72.9 billion in 2015, according to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC).
The worldwide systems management software market experienced year-over-year revenue growth of 8.2 percent in the second half of 2010 (2H10), bringing in total revenue to $7.3 billion, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Japan's IT market had overcome the negative impact of the global financial crisis and was expected to experience another year of positive growth, but it now looks to be headed for a double dip in 2011, research firm IDC said.
Japan remained the top country among G20 nations in the most recent ICT Sustainability Index of the International Data Corp. (IDC), which ranks the ability of G20 nations to reduce their CO2 emissions through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).
The adoption of cloud services is continuing to mature in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) region and will accelerate rapidly in 2011, research firm IDC said.
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector made a strong recovery in 2010 as the global economy and IT spending rebounded from the recession of 2008-2009, research firm IDC said in its latest report.
Research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) is expecting the cloud services in Japan to continue to expand rapidly, achieving an estimated market size of 153.4 billion yen in 2014, or 4.9 times larger than in 2009.
International Data Corporation (IDC) recently announced plans to establish a wholly owned research business unit in Bangalore, India.
