IDC research
China is set to overtake Japan as the largest spender on IT goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region, analyst firm IDC said in its latest IT forecast.
Despite the current gloomy global economy and the recent flood crisis that brought the nation's business activities to a standstill, research firm IDC said Thailand would likely overtake Singapore to regain the number-two spot for IT spending in Southeast Asia.
Market research firm IDC has cited Singapore's Singapore e-Mobility project (the Electric Vehicle Test Bed) project as an industry best practice.
With Korea's strong government leadership, the country has developed a smart city market known as U-City, which is one of the more recognized smart city projects globally. It is also the first country to define the concept of 'smart city."
More CIO and IT decision makers are feeling the pressure to give in to the perceived growing clamor of executives and employees to bring their own devices such as media tablets and smartphones to the workplace," a new IDC study showed.
With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft is offering a new set of streamlined editions that are well aligned with database and business intelligence (BI) needs and an industry-standard pricing approach based on cores.
Cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs globally by 2015, while revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion per year by 2015, a Microsoft commissioned research from IDC showed.
IT spending by the government sector in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) should increase by 15.1 percent year on year in 2012 to reach $7.41 billion, according to IDC's top 10 technology predictions for 2012.
Despite challenges from disk drives, media tablets, and the global economy, the PC market in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) grew 11 percent for the full year 2011 to reach 119 million units, preliminary data from IDC showed.
Drawing from research and internal brainstorming sessions among regional and country analysts, IDC sees a lot of promise in the growth of the information and communication technology (ICT) in Indonesia.
