PC market surges as coronavirus forces working from home
While the first quarter saw PC sales plunge, both Gartner and IDC reported a big positive swing as quarantined workers bought PCs and Chromebooks.
While the first quarter saw PC sales plunge, both Gartner and IDC reported a big positive swing as quarantined workers bought PCs and Chromebooks.
COVID-19 played a significant role in the IT infrastructure market during the first quarter of 2020, causing sales revenue of cloud infrastructure to grow slightly and non-cloud infrastructure to fall by double digits.
The Australian smartphone market is expected to meet the global rate of decline by the end of 2020, according to recent analysis.
The Australian PC market increased over the first quarter of 2020, with demand pivoting from desktops to notebooks during the three months.
IT spending expectations of businesses have declined globally during May, even with a slight improvement in market indicators as more countries begin to move towards a COVID-19 recovery phase.
Network pros can be learning new skills during the pandemic to support shifting IT priorities.
The global 5G and LTE router and gateway market is expected to see considerable growth over the next four years even when factoring in the effect of the coronavirus pandemic.
Global IT spending expectations for May are in flux as there has been a slight improvement identified in the Asia Pacific region, while the US is seeing a decline and Europe’s spend remains soft.
Worldwide IT spending during 2020 is estimated to drop by 5.1 per cent year-on-year, but there’s potential for a complete reversal in 2021.
Major cloud providers are having trouble getting basic components for new data centres so they've put off some construction plans.
Spending on IT is expected to decline by roughly 2.7 per cent this year due to the economic impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but some verticals are likely to be harder hit than others.
PC shipments around the globe have been rocked by the coronavirus pandemic and, despite a surge in demand, experts are saying the worst is yet to come.
Worldwide spending on cloud IT infrastructure grew in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the year overall, recording 12.4 per cent year-over-year for the quarter and 2.1 per cent year-over-year for 2019.
Worldwide IT spending is expected to decline by 2.7 per cent year-over-year in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, updated forecasts have predicted.
Spending on server and enterprise storage systems is likely to decline amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but long-term growth may still be on the horizon.