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IDC: 2019 Closes With PC Shipment Growth!

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IDC: 2019 Closes With PC Shipment Growth!

The global traditional PC-- meaning desktop, notebooks and workstations-- market closes 2019 with "impressive" Q4 2019 growth of 4.8% Y-o-Y, IDC reports, with shipments reaching 71.8 million units, the highest for a single quarter since Q4 2015.

As for overall 2019 global shipments are up by 2.7%, marking the first full year of PC growth since 2011.

"This past year was a wild one in the PC world, which resulted in impressive market growth that ultimately ended 7 consecutive years of market contraction," the analyst says. "The market will still have its challenges ahead, but this year was a clear sign that PC demand is still there despite the continued insurgence of emerging form factors and the demand for mobile computing."

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IDC: European IT, Telecom Market to Slow Down in 2020

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IDC: European IT, Telecom Market to Slow Down in 2020

European spending on traditional hardware, software, services and telecommunications is set to reach $921.9 billion in 2020, IDC reports-- an increase of 2.2%, slightly down from the 4.1% growth seen in 2019.

According to the analyst, IT spending annual growth in Europe should also cool from 6% in 2019 to 3% in 2020, the result of economic challenges from the global economic downturn. In addition, Brexit creates an uncertain scenario in the technology market, while the global market will negatively impact the market in both W. Europe and CEE. That said, annual IT and telecom spending is set to exceed $994bn by 2023, thanks to growth in the software and services markets due to an increasing number of 3rd Platform and digital transformation (DX) projects. However development on the PC and tablet, peripherals and server markets will prove an impediment on overall market growth.

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Gartner: Infrastructure Disruption Drives Innovation!

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Gartner: Infrastructure Disruption Drives Innovation!

By 2025, 60% of infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders will drive business innovation using disruptive technologies, Gartner reports, up from the current total of just 5%, driving the growth of the I&O function within enterprise.

“As businesses face increased pressure to lower operating costs, many I&O leaders have been siloed into a tactical role rather than a strategic one-- essentially, becoming custodians of legacy infrastructure,” the analyst says. “The result is stunted I&O maturity over the past decade. I&O leaders who harness the power of disruptive technologies, such as cloud and artificial intelligence (AI), will discover new opportunities to serve as business innovators.”

Gartner describes infrastructure-led disruption as the use of I&O technologies, processes, people, skills and capabilities to promote disruption and embrace risk. I&O leaders employing infrastructure-led disruption are looking for new ways to use technology to delivery business value, instead of remaining merely reactive to stakeholder needs.

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Gartner on the Enterprise Drone Opportunity

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Gartner on the Enterprise Drone Opportunity

According to Gartner, global Internet of Things (IoT) enterprise drone shipments are set to total 526000 units in 2020-- a 50% increase over 2019, before reaching 1.3 million units by 2023.

“The construction sector is an early adopter of drones, which causes construction monitoring to be the largest use case by shipments worldwide across the forecast,” the analyst says. “Shipments are estimated to reach 210000 drones in 2020, and more than double by 2023. Drones are taking over tasks such as site surveying and earthworks management as they are faster and safer to carry out with a drone than on foot.”

In terms of site surveying costs, the number of global construction employees per drone should drop from 2400 to 640 between 2018 and 2020.

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IDC: EMEA PCs Remain Afloat in 2019

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IDC: EMEA PCs Remain Afloat in 2019

According to IDC, EMEA PC shipments are set to total 72.1 million units in 2019-- a 0.6% increase over 2018 brought about by the commercial segment, since weakness within the consumer continues to "constrict overall growth."

"The W. European PC market continued its growth momentum in Q3 2019, thanks to the ongoing commercial refresh ahead of Windows 7 EOS," the analyst says. "Enterprises and the public space were the frontrunners in the Windows 10 refresh to avoid the additional surcharge of Windows 7 support after January 2020. Predictions to H1 2020 remain positive owing to the strong demand from SMBs, but a further intensification of the Intel CPU shortage is expected to inhibit some of the fulfilments."

In total commercial growth is to clock at a "sizable" 9.8% for 2019, despite potential CPU shortages leading to the inability to meet demand brought about by the Windows 10 refresh. Alternative Intel SKUs and AMD configurations can fill some of the gap between the supply of Intel CPUs and market demand, and the market segment will be further strengthened by enterprise mobility adoption, a strong pipeline of projects across all segments and Q4 2019 "use it or lose it" budgets in the public space.

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