64% of IT decision makers have reported a breach in their ERP systems in the past 24 months

ERP applications are ‘critical’ to business operations, according to the IDC survey of 430 IT decision makers. ERP-related breach Sixty-four percent of the 191 decision makers surveyed whose organizations rely on SAP or Oracle E-Business Suite confirme… Continue reading 64% of IT decision makers have reported a breach in their ERP systems in the past 24 months

Public cloud data continues to grow, headed toward $500 billion by 2023

The worldwide public cloud services market grew 27.4% year over year in 2018 with revenues totaling nearly $183 billion, according to IDC. This growth rate, which is more than 4.5 times that of the IT industry overall, showed a modest drop from 2017, n… Continue reading Public cloud data continues to grow, headed toward $500 billion by 2023

SD-WAN continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the network infrastructure market

The SD-WAN infrastructure market will grow at a 30.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2018 to 2023 to reach $5.25 billion, according to IDC’s SD-WAN Infrastructure Forecast. The IDC Market Shares report includes 2017 and 2018 revenues by … Continue reading SD-WAN continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the network infrastructure market

Enterprises adopt edge workloads, yet still use unsuitable legacy storage solutions

By 2025 organizations will churn out 175 zetta-bytes of data, IDC predicts. However bottlenecks and compute problems continue to plague IT pros as they struggle to support their growing edge workloads, acording to a survey of more than 300 storage prof… Continue reading Enterprises adopt edge workloads, yet still use unsuitable legacy storage solutions

Only 25% of organizations using AI have an enterprise-wide AI strategy

Only 25% of global organizations that are already using artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, have developed an enterprise-wide AI strategy, according to IDC. At the same time, half the organizations surveyed see AI as a priority and two thirds are e… Continue reading Only 25% of organizations using AI have an enterprise-wide AI strategy

Worldwide spending on public cloud services to double by 2023

Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will more than double over the 2019-2023 forecast period, according to IDC. With a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.3%, public cloud spending will grow from $229 billion i… Continue reading Worldwide spending on public cloud services to double by 2023

MongoDB gets a data lake, new security features and more

MongoDB is hosting its developer conference today and unsurprisingly, the company has quite a few announcements to make. Some are straightforward, like the launch of MongoDB 4.2 with some important new security features, while others, like the launch of the company’s Atlas Data Lake, point the company beyond its core database product. “Our new offerings […] Continue reading MongoDB gets a data lake, new security features and more

Worldwide IoT spending forecast to reach $726 billion this year

Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) is forecast to pass the $1.0 trillion mark in 2022, reaching $1.1 trillion in 2023. CAGR for IoT spending A new update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Thing… Continue reading Worldwide IoT spending forecast to reach $726 billion this year

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased to $19.8 billion in Q1 2019

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 4.4% year over year to $19.8 billion during the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19). Worldwide server shipments declined 5.1% year over year to just under 2.6 million units in 1Q19, according to the IDC … Continue reading Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased to $19.8 billion in Q1 2019