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Analysing all the ingredients

Man on ladder draws diagrams on a wall

Fleur Doidge investigates where resellers should be looking for sales around business analytics

28 May 2012

BYOD fuels "vibrant" WLAN market in Q1

Tablet user

Top vendors enjoy speedy growth as IDC numbers demonstrate strength of enterprise wireless market

23 May 2012

Sluggish start to year for western Europe print

A Lexmark x950de printer

Hardcopy tracker reveals especially sharp decline in sales of printing devices to consumers

11 May 2012

Bytes gets violent with printers

Micro-P appoints general manager for print

Strike while Hadoop analytics apps are hot

Analytics software tipped to snowball answers to big-data business questions

08 May 2012

Android slides while Apple shines in tablet wars

Market watcher IDC reveals a 'disappointing' first quarter for tablets and e-readers

04 May 2012

EMEA sales of e-readers doubled last year

Shipments across the region tipped 4.8 million, says IDC

24 Apr 2012

IDC: EMEA PC market picks up in Q1

Analyst is second to report an uptick in shipments for the quarter, with HP riding high in pole position and Lenovo seeing a sales surge

23 Apr 2012

HDD market to hit back in 2012

Sales and shipments of storage technology to grow as market recovers from fallout of natural disasters

02 Apr 2012

IDC: EMEA public sector cloud adoption still slow

Less than half of public sector organisations questioned by market watcher have assigned any budget to cloud computing

30 Mar 2012

Video market set to top $3bn this year

A brace of analysts predict market growth as Avaya swoops on video specialist Radvision in $230m deal

15 Mar 2012

Thinking beyond the box

Is there really an opportunity for resellers and distributors in vastly expanding their sales of peripherals and accessories? Fleur Doidge investigates

05 Mar 2012

Switching market gets its mojo back in stellar Q4

Routing market also performs solidly, according to IDC numbers

23 Feb 2012

Change afoot in the PC market

Vendors, distributors, resellers and retailers must clarify their business models in an increasingly confusing, complex PC market, Fleur Doidge discovered at this year’s Distree EMEA conference in Monte Carlo

17 Feb 2012

Printer sales dipped slightly in Q4 but look good for 2012

Outlook remains positive for overall market predictions, according to IDC

13 Feb 2012

Distree 2012: Channel needs to get in shape

Analysts warn resellers must step up their efforts to deal with the challenges of increasingly diverse customer requirements

09 Feb 2012

For whom the bell tolls

Conditions will remain tough next year, but there will be many opportunities too. Fleur Doidge reports on IDC’s global 2012 predictions summary

23 Dec 2011

Three billion pages printed daily in EMEA

Paperless offices still a long way off as regional page volumes could stretch to the moon and back each day

21 Dec 2011

Global IT spend saved by mobile device uptake

IDC's latest State of the Market research reveals smartphones and tablets are propping up the market, but Western Europe is seeing a bigger slowdown than expected

02 Nov 2011

Double-digit drop for apathetic European PC market

Channels loath to stock up and consumers more interested in mobile devices, says IDC

20 Oct 2011

IDC: 2010 saw tech investment rebound

But analyst warns rocky road lies ahead with soaring inflation and fiscal consolidation

12 Oct 2011

UC market set to weather economic storm in UK

IDC study predicts impressive annual growth for collaboration solutions and hosted services

20 Sep 2011

Android loses sight of runaway Apple in Q2 tablet race

Monster demand for the iPad 2 helps market leader consolidate as Google operating systems sheds share to RIM

14 Sep 2011

Mobility security market set for takeoff

IDC pegs western European CAGR at 30 per cent as cloud and IT consumerisation drive spending

12 Aug 2011

Nokia surrenders 20-point lead in smartphone market

Beleaguered Finnish firm haemorrhages sales and market share as Apple turns the screw

05 Aug 2011

AMD gains on Intel during wobbly Q2 for chip market

Challenger lands a blow on market's alpha male as microprocessor space suffers decline

03 Aug 2011

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Why Apple wants bigger bite of channel

Latest distribution sell-through figures indicate a softening in Apple's stance towards the channel, says CRN deputy editor Doug Woodburn