MILAN, Italy, November 1, 2016 The first Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC ) confirms strong growth in European companies' security-related spending across hardware, software, and services. The Western European market will grow from $19.5 billion in 2016 to $26.4 billion in 2020, generating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8% over the five-year forecast period, more than twice as fast as the overall IT market in the region. The new spending guide expands on IDC's previous security forecasts by offering greater detail on spending by geography, industry, company size band, and technology.

LONDON, October 21, 2016 PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) performed above expectations, reaching 17.9 million units and posting a 3.3% YoY decrease in 2016Q3, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Notebook shipments increased by 0.7%, supported by interest in new thin and light solutions from Western European enterprises and by political stabilization in the Middle East and Africa.

LONDON, October 10, 2016 - According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) WW Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker, IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) grew by 37.4 % year-on-year to reach $1.4 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2016.

LONDON, October 3, 2016 According to the latest IDC forecast, detachables, convertibles, and ultraslim notebooks will continue their expansion and are expected to account for approximately 40% of the total PC and tablet market in Western Europe by 2020. IDC projects continued double-digit YoY growth in 2016 across all three form factors, with ultraslims expected to grow 14.2%, convertibles 20.7%, and detachables to near double with over 80% growth in 2016 YoY. This only partly offsets the decline of the more traditional form factors, such as traditional notebooks, traditional desktops, or slate tablets, as the overall market performance will remain negative. IDC forecasts a 3.7% decrease of PC and tablet shipment in the second half of 2016 (compared with 2015H2). Overall the market is expected to contract 6% YoY in 2016.

Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Enterprise Networking Market in H1 2016: Deep Dive with IDC Trackers

FRANKFURT, September 19, 2016 As reported in International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker, in the second quarter of 2016 the EMEA server market reported a moderate year-on-year (YoY) decline in vendor revenues of 3.7% to $3.0 billion and a slight YoY increase of 0.8% in units shipped to just over 530,000. The top 5 vendors in EMEA and their revenues for the quarter are displayed in the table below.

LONDON, September 9, 2016 Figures recently released by International Data Corporation (IDC) as part of its annual Point of Sale (POS) Printer Tracker program show new momentum behind POS printers in Western Europe. According to IDC, after a sluggish trend in 2014, approximately 810,000 units were shipped in 2015 representing a 4.5% leap compared to the previous year. The trend was patchy by geography, however, with double-digit growth in Benelux and Southern Europe, buoyant results in German speaking countries (DACH), and negative trends in France and the U.K.

London, 9 September, 2016: Recent market sizing published by International Data Corporation (IDC) for security software in Western Europe (see Western Europe Security Software Forecast, 2016–2020: Security is an Enabler in the 3rd Platform Era, IDC #EMEA0725216 , August 2016) shows that the market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2020. It also shows that the market passed the $5 billion mark in 2015 (the latest full year on record). These landmark characteristics provide an opportunity to consider what has taken the market this far, and what will spur future growth.

John Delaney – Associate VP Mobility, IDC, [email protected] , @ john_p_d

Milan, August 24, 2016 — According to the latest release of the Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenue from public cloud services will reach over $195 billion in 2020, more than doubling the current market size. Western Europe will continue to represent around a fifth of the global market, with revenues growing from a $15 billion in 2015 to $38.6 billion in 2020, at a 20.8% five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

LONDON, August 22, 2016 — According to the latest results published by International Data Corporation (IDC), ultraslim notebooks and detachables posted positive results in the second quarter of 2016, growing 8.6% and 192.3% YoY respectively. Approximately one in every five PCs shipped in Western Europe this quarter was an ultraslim notebook, while one in four tablets shipped was a detachable in both the consumer and commercial segments. The results show good traction for these devices in spite of market challenges, as the penetration of both form factors continued to progress. In fact, the overall Western European personal computer device market continued to contract in 2016Q2, with PC and tablet shipments stabilizing at 17.2 million units (3.4% YoY decline).

London, United Kingdom, August 17, 2016 — IDC today announced the arrival of Thomas Zink as Associate Research Director, Financial Insights, IDC Europe. In this role, Zink will manage IDC Financial Insights, while covering the technological landscape of the European banking industry with a particular focus on payments and omnichannel strategies.

A new survey by IDC shows that rapid changes in user behavior, mobile technology, and customer expectations are driving insurers to ramp up efforts to make customer communications friendlier, more informative, and easier to access by any channel the customer chooses.

LONDON, August 16, 2016 — According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 5.8% in unit terms in 2Q16 compared with the same period a year ago, with negative performances in both the inkjet and laser segments. For the second consecutive negative quarter, the market shows a decline of 275,000 units with a shipment volume of 4.5 million devices — a decline that is again largely due to the contraction in consumer printing but is relatively in line with forecasts. Revenues declined by 0.8% — inkjets showed an encouraging 3.4% increase due to business inkjets, but laser revenues fell by 1.4%.

John Delaney – Associate VP, Mobility, IDC Europe, [email protected] , @ john_p_d

LONDON, July 22, 2016 — PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) performed above expectations, reaching 16.1 million units in the second quarter of 2016 — a 4.7% YoY decrease, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Looking at regions, Western Europe stabilized at -0.8%, while Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East and Africa remained constrained respectively at -8.5% and -13.3%.

LONDON, July 4, 2016 — According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) WW Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker, IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) grew by 17.6% year on year to $1.3 billion in 1Q16.

U.K. IT Growth will be revised downwards by more than 2% through to 2020; Overall Western European Growth is Expected to Remain Largely Unaffected

Milan, Italy, June 27, 2016 — In a new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide , International Data Corporation (IDC ) forecasts that organizations across Western Europe will invest more than $145 billion in Internet of Things (IoT) hardware, software, services, and connectivity this year. And IDC expects Western European IoT revenues will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.9% over the 2016–2020 forecast period, reaching nearly $290 billion in 2020.

LONDON, June 28, 2016 — According to the latest figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the smart connected device (SCD) market contracted 12.5% in the Nordic region in 2016Q1 compared with the same quarter last year. The region remained affected by unfavorable macroeconomic conditions, such as exchange rate volatility and oil price fluctuations, all of which impacted investments, particularly in Norway and Sweden. Consumer spending also remained constrained across all four countries.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Prague — In first quarter of 2016, vendor revenue on the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) enterprise networking market decreased by 6.8% year on year, according to detailed competitive data reports released by International Data Corporation (IDC). However, performance among the three sub-markets — Ethernet switching, wireless LAN (WLAN), and routing — differs significantly.

LONDON, June 13, 2016 — Total EMEA external storage systems revenue fell 4.9% year over year to $1.64 billion in the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16), according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker 1Q16 from International Data Corporation (IDC). The capacity shipped in the quarter also dropped 3.5%, indicating a move away from external storage to internal storage in the region.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Workstation shipments in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region contracted by 1.5% year on year in 2015. Global research and consulting firm International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts a flat 2016, with year-on-year growth of 0.9%, on the back of a moderate recovery in the economy, but with a highly uncertain outlook and increasing risks.

LONDON, June 8, 2016 — According to the latest figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the U.K. became the largest detachable market in Western Europe in the first quarter of 2016. The U.K. overtook Germany, which as expected had ended 2015 as the leading country for this form factor (http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUK25885915 ). With more than 300,000 unit shipments the U.K. accounted for 23% of total detachable shipments in Europe and appears set to remain at the top of the country ranking in the short term. The introduction of the iPad Pro provided an additional boost to the detachable market and extended the customer base, with Apple reaching 21% market share.

John Delaney, Associate VP, Mobility, IDC Europe, [email protected] , @john_p_d

LONDON, May 24, 2016 — According to the latest figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), Western European shipments of ultraslim convertibles and detachables posted positive growth (44.7%) to account for 18.4% of total consumer shipments and 21.9% of commercial devices in 16Q1, up from 9.2% and 16.3% respectively a year ago. This trend is even more significant in the context of a contracting market. The Western European PC and tablet market contracted by 13.7% YoY in 16Q1, with total shipments reaching 18.2 million units. The decline was softer in the commercial segment, where the drop in shipments remained in single digits (-5.2% YoY), while consumer demand fell by 18.6% YoY.

A new MarketScape report from IDC Government Insights examines Western European vendors that are key players in the systems integration market.

LONDON, May 17, 2016 — According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 7.7% in unit terms in 1Q16 compared with the same period a year ago, with negative performances in both the inkjet and laser segments. This negative start to 2016, with a market figure of 5 million units and a decline of 422,000 units, is largely due to the contraction in consumer printing but is relatively in line with forecasts. Revenues declined by 2.5%, with lasers showing a slight 0.8% decrease and inkjet revenues falling by 12.4%.

John Delaney, Associate VP, Mobility – IDC, [email protected] , @john_p_d

On June 23, 2016, the people of the U.K. will vote in a referendum on whether they want the U.K. to remain a member of the European Union (EU) or to leave. A strong vein of anti-EU sentiment, and the likelihood of some status-quo voting apathy, are combining to make a British exit from the EU (colloquially referred to as "Brexit") a distinct possibility. What would Brexit mean for the U.K.'s mobile industry?

On March 14 and 15, 2016, IDC Energy Insights hosted the fourth edition of its IDC Pan-European Utilities Executive Summit. The invitation-only event took place on Lake Como, Italy. The venue provided the ideal backdrop to the summit's theme: "Driving Utilities' Digital Journey to the Next Level."

LONDON, April 25, 2016 — EE, the U.K.'s biggest mobile operator and part of the BT Group, has announced plans for a major increase in the geographic coverage of its 4G network. It plans to increase the land covered by EE's network from its current position of 60% toward an objective of 95% by 2020. EE said it is challenging the mobile industry to adopt the geographic metric for network coverage measurement, rather than the population-coverage metric used today.

LONDON, May 3, 2016 — Communication service providers (CSPs) in the Western European enterprise market have faced difficult market conditions for years, hit by a perfect storm of economic headwinds, spending rationalization, technology migrations, competition, and regulatory pressure. A new report from International Data Corporation (IDC), however, suggests there might be light at the end of the tunnel for the troubled sector.

LONDON, April 19, 2016 — PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) reached 17.2 million units in the first quarter of 2016 — a 14.6% decrease year on year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Despite the shrinking market, commercial notebook PCs returned to growth in Western Europe (WE) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In contrast, the consumer market performed poorly following a strong push for the Bing promotion in January 2015, making the comparison unfavorable.

LONDON, April 15, 2016 – The impact of a "Brexit" (the scenario in which the United Kingdom left the European Union following the referendum in the U.K. on June 23) would be mildly negative for IT spend in the U.K., but neutral for the rest of the European Union, according to IDC's European analysts.

LONDON, April 13, 2016 — EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues decreased 13% year over year to reach $277 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Prague — In 2015, vendor revenue on the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) enterprise networking market decreased by a negligible 0.6% year on year, according to detailed competitive data reports released by International Data Corporation (IDC). At the same time, performance among the region’s three sub-markets — Ethernet switching, wireless LAN (WLAN), and routing — was markedly different from 2014.

LONDON March 22, 2016 - As reported in International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker, in the 4th quarter of 2015 the EMEA server market continued to show moderate growth, reporting $3.9 billion in vendor revenue and 625,000 units shipped, for year-on-year growth of 5.0% and -1.6% respectively.

LONDON, March 18, 2016 — The total EMEA external storage systems value fell 7.5% year over year to $2.08 billion in the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15), according to IDC's EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, 4Q15. For the full year 2015, the external storage systems value in EMEA fell 8.5% to just over $7 billion, from $7.66 billion in 2014.

LONDON, March 16, 2016 — According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) Western Europe Quarterly Tablet Tracker forecast, demand for detachable tablets will drive the overall European PC and tablet device market over the coming years. By 2018, detachables and slate tablets will account for 51% of total shipments (up from 45% in 2015), as demand for traditional PCs continues to slowly decline due to market maturity and migration to more mobile form factors. By 2020, detachable tablets are expected to represent more than 20% of all client computing devices, from only 5% in 2015.

In the new Worldwide Commercial Robotics Spending Guide , IDC forecasts the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) spending on robotics and related services to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13% from nearly $14.6 billion in 2015 to $23.8 billion in 2019.

LONDON, March 2, 2016 — International Data Corporation (IDC) is pleased to announce the promotion of Phil Carter to chief analyst for the European region. The new role has been created specifically to drive innovation in new research topics and deliverables, to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing, and to increase customer satisfaction. In addition to his new role, Carter will continue to manage the European Enterprise Software and Infrastructure research teams.

LONDON, February 18, 2016 — According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), in the last quarter of 2015 over 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe as the market volume declined 10.1% YoY. In value terms, however, the decline was only 1.8% YoY, thanks to growing penetration of detachable tablets boosted by an increasing supply of devices with wide-ranging specs catering for the diverse needs of consumers and professionals. In the last quarter of the year, 2.6 million tablets with a detachable keyboard were shipped, up from just over 800,000 units a year ago, accounting now for almost 20% of the overall tablet market.

New senior research analyst to drive the Worldwide Insurance Strategy research program

MILAN, February 11, 2016 — Mobility is one of IDC 's 3rd Platform pillars, an IT market that has disrupted traditional business processes and continues to create transformative opportunities for vendors eager to engage a wider set of customers. According to IDC's new Worldwide Semiannual Mobility Spending Guide , enterprise and consumer spending on mobile devices, software, and services will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7% from $1.7 trillion in 2015 to $1.8 trillion by 2019. EMEA mobility spending will represent 29% of worldwide spending on mobility in 2019, reaching $538 billion. The new spending guide expands on IDC's previous mobility forecasts by offering greater detail on industry and geographic spending levels.

London, United Kingdom, February 11, 2016 — IDC today announced the appointment of Ivano Ortis as associate vice president, Retail and Manufacturing Insights, IDC Europe. In this role, Mr. Ortis will manage IDC Manufacturing Insights and IDC Retail Insights in Europe, while providing strategic research directions for the groups and advisory support to manufacturers, retailers and IT vendors serving these industries.

LONDON, February 11, 2016 — According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market decreased 4.9% in unit terms compared with the same period a year ago, with negative performances in both inkjet and laser segments. This gave a 4Q15 market figure of 6.5 million units — a decline of 333K units, largely due to the contraction in consumer printing. Revenues increased by 1%, but lasers were largely responsible for the value increase as inkjet revenues fell by 14.3%.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Prague – Spending on public cloud services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) reached $15.1 billion in 2015. According to data recently released by International Data Corporation (IDC), spending is expected to more than double over the next five years, reaching nearly $34 billion in 2019.

February 1, 2016, Prague — According to a recent study by International Data Corporation (IDC), Microsoft has tripled its market share between 1Q 2011 and 2Q 2015 in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) IP PBX and unified communications (UC) platform market and become a head-to-head competitor to the vendors that have traditionally dominated this market. "This is a result of a strategy tuned to the transformations underway in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. All other vendors and service providers should regard Microsoft's rise as a call to action," says Program Manager Michael Vorisek, IDC CEMA.

Milan, January 29, 2016 – Western European spending on 3D Printing will grow at a 29.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from nearly $2.6 billion in 2015 to $7.2 billion in 2019, according to the new Worldwide Semiannual 3D Printing Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC ). This new spending guide expands on IDC's previous 3D printing forecasts by offering greater detail on spending levels by technology, industry, and geography.

LONDON, January 26, 2016 — PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) reached 20.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015 — an 18.2% decrease year on year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). After a strong shipment push of devices under Microsoft’s Bing promotion from summer 2014 to January 2015, the focus for hardware manufacturers and their channel partners has been to deplete stock, leading to an 18% contraction for 2015 with 76.3 million PCs shipped in EMEA.

John Delaney, Associate VP, Mobility – IDC Europe, [email protected] , @john_p_d

LONDON, January 14, 2016 — EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues decreased 4% year over year to reach $217.5 million in the third quarter of 2015, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

LONDON, January 14, 2016 — International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its 2015 MarketScape study profiling and ranking the leading providers in the video cloud services market. The IDC MarketScape methodology placed BT and Orange Business Services in the "Leaders" category, followed — in some cases, very closely — by 11 "Major Players" and "Contenders."

LONDON, January 13, 2016 — International Data Corporation (IDC) has completed an in-depth market sizing of the EMEA Big Data infrastructure market focusing on servers, storage, and cloud resources used for Big Data–related activities. These include value creation from merging different data sources, various analytics, log files, and metadata that help identify patterns and generate predictions.

January 8, 2016, Prague – In the third quarter of 2015, the value of the combined consumer and enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) grew by 11.7% compared to Q2, in U.S. dollar terms. In year-on-year terms, however, the combined market value decreased by 5.5%.

John Delaney, Associate VP, Mobility – IDC Europe, [email protected] , @john_p_d

LONDON, December 15, 2015 — The value of the total EMEA external storage systems market fell 9.8% year over year to $1.57 billion in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), according to International Data Corporation's EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, 3Q15.

MILAN, December 16, 2015 – According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) Spending Guide, Western Europe spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at 21.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $113.5 billion in 2015 to nearly $250 billion in 2019, representing 16% of the Worldwide IoT Spending in 2015 (19% in 2019).

LONDON, November 19, 2015 — Tablet shipments to Western European countries in 2015Q3 totaled 8.7 million units, down by only 1% from the same quarter last year, according to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC). This is a clear signal of stabilization following the previous quarter result; however, product mix developments show a shift of vendors towards detachable devices.

LONDON, November 13, 2015 — According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market decreased 6.8% in unit terms compared with the same period a year ago, with negative performances in both inkjet and laser segments. This gave a 3Q15 market figure of 5.45 million units — a decline of 397,256 units. Revenues increased by 2.7%, but lasers were largely responsible for the value increase as inkjet revenues fell by 14.8%.

LONDON, November 10, 2015 A new IDC Financial Insights study, Perspective: Business-to-Consumer Demand Financing: Modern Technology Enables a New Lending Opportunity (Doc #FIBA56x), calls on banks to consider facilitating loans from businesses to their customers.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., November 9, 2015 – A new IDC Health Insights study, Empowering Patients and Improving Quality of Care through Integrated Care: Telehealth and Telecare in Cornwall (Doc #HIOH04X), looks at how the Cornwall local council and National Health Services (NHS), together with their partner BT, sought to address the challenges faced in providing care to Cornwall citizens. The new study also looks at how BT has worked with both institutions to provide telecare and telehealth solutions to meet the needs of providers and consumers. Leveraging the analysis of the project, it also provides a series of recommendations for healthcare providers that want to adopt telehealth/telecare solutions.

LONDON, November 4, 2015 — A substantial opportunity for security and storage software vendors will be created by incoming EU data protection regulations, with a total market opportunity of $3.5 billion, according to a new report by International Data Corporation (IDC). The severity of fines, coupled with the substantial changes in scope, will drive enterprises to radically shake up their data protection practices, seeking the assistance of new technologies to assist with compliance, says the report.

PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) reached 18.4 million units in the third quarter of 2015, posting a 23.0% decline year on year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The market was weakened by ongoing currency fluctuations affecting a number of countries, as well as political instability in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, while channel players across the region focused on depletion of Bing inventory in preparation for shipments of new products for the 4Q15 holiday season. Shipments of Windows 10 machines started to increase in September, but due to the free upgrade program offered by Microsoft, demand for new devices did not pick up significantly and allowed retailers to focus on sales of Windows 8 products remaining in stock.

The integrated systems market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) showed minor growth in 2Q15, reporting $662.91 million in vendor revenue, amounting to year-on-year growth of 1.9%, according to IDC's latest Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure & Platforms Tracker.

According to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Europe, Middle East, and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, the EMEA security appliance market reached $837.65 million in 2Q15, for a 0.2% year-on-year decline. Shipments increased 4.0% year on year to 183,885 units. Over the next five years the security appliance market is expected to accelerate at a CAGR of 6.3% and reach $4.59 billion (1,018,373 units) by the end of 2019.

A recent survey carried out by International Data Corporation (IDC) indicates that despite the continuous shift to mobility and the proliferation of portable devices such as ultraslim notebooks, convertibles, and tablets, desktop PCs are still the main PC form factor for businesses. The survey interviewed 600 executives at SMBs and large enterprises in France, the U.K., and Germany, with 84% of respondents indicating that they would consider purchasing desktop PCs for their organization.

According to a new IT spending forecast report published by IDC Energy Insights, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to reach $18.4 billion by 2019, with an estimated 2014–2019 CAGR of 3.3%. Analyzing current IT spending, total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to be $16.3 billion in 2015, with electricity companies accounting for the largest share of spending, at 67% or $10.9 billion of the total.

Altice, the European telecoms group, has made a bid to acquire US cable TV operator Cablevision for $17.7 billion. Both companies' boards have approved the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of 2016

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) thin client market faced its third consecutive quarter of negative growth in Q2 2015, reaching the lowest volume in five years. Shipments contracted 17.7% year on year to 385,000 units, according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker published by global IT market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Interestingly, the decline in the Western European thin client market was stronger than during the financial crisis in 2009, dropping 19.2% in Q2 2015 from the same period in the previous year. Despite low oil prices, the fragile economic growth in the euro zone was not able to provide sufficient additional incentive for IT hardware upgrades or new purchases.

The external storage systems (ESS) market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) declined 11% year over year to $1.63 billion in the second quarter of 2015, according to the IDC EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker 2Q15.

According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), Germany will be the largest 2-in-1 market in Western Europe by the end of 2015 with almost 800,000 detachable devices shipped over the four quarters.

LONDON, August 8, 2015 — According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European tablet market stabilized in Q2 2015 with total shipments contracting annually by 1.2% and reaching 7.5 million units. This small decline, which was the softest since the downturn started at the beginning of 2014, resulted from the combined effect of persistent weak demand for consumer tablets and increasing interest in 2-in-1s and as commercial tablets. Furthermore, the drop in tablet shipments stabilized at 4.4% while growth for 2-in-1s persisted at +71%.

LONDON, August 12, 2015 — IDC is pleased to announce the launch of the 3rd edition of the IDC Pan-European Manufacturing Executive Summit, to be held in Brussels on November 16 and 17, 2015.

LONDON, August 12, 2015 — A new IDC Financial Insights study builds on recent IDC analysis of the Bitcoin ecosystem by considering the potential of Ripple, an offshoot of Bitcoin which purports to be an open source, real-time payment settlement infrastructure, and the impact it could have on the financial services industry. Crucially, Ripple concentrates on providing a payments infrastructure, rather than a new currency, in its attempt to overhaul the international payments landscape.

LONDON, August 10, 2015 — A new study by IDC Retail Insights reveals that Western European retailers are actively embarking on their digital transformation journey to gain competitive edge over their counterparts. Currently all the top Western European retailers are in the process of determining how digital impacts them and what their digital transformation approach and strategy should be. IDC Retail Insights sees a race to digitize taking place among the largest retailers in Europe (all of which have varying degrees of maturity) to harness the new revenue streams and retail operational efficiencies that digital transformation can provide.

LONDON, August 10, 2015 — A new IDC Financial Insights study, Branch Transformation in a Digital World, highlights that bank branches can elicit more customer retention and more cross-selling than any other method as the time to talk to customers remains the best way of understanding how to serve them better.

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market decreased 2.6% in unit terms compared with the same period a year ago, with negative performances on both inkjet and laser segments but in line with IDC's forecast following a strong first quarter. This gave a 2Q15 market figure of 4.79 million units — a decline of 126,606 units. Revenues increased by an impressive 6.6%, however, with laser devices showing the biggest increase.

LONDON, August 6, 2015 — IDC is pleased to announce the launch of the 3rd edition of its Pan-European Healthcare Executive Summit 2015. The summit will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on September 22–23, 2015. In an informal and very interactive environment, healthcare CIOs, CEOs, and medical directors will gather with research and public health authority representatives to share their views on how to drive the integrated care agenda to deliver innovative care pathways and services through the whole healthcare value chain.

Workstation shipments in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region contracted by 3.4% year on year in first quarter of 2015. Global research and advisory company IDC expects the decline to extend to -5.2% for the full year. "The decline in Euro value is increasing the risk sentiments, putting weight on the channel business, especially when it comes to US based vendors," says Mohamed Hefny, senior analyst with IDC's systems and infrastructure department. "Very large businesses are also under corporate debt pressure, opting for extension of maintenance and support instead of refreshing with new boxes," he added.

LONDON, July 27, 2015 — IDC Financial Insights today released a new study, Branch Transformation in a Digital World, which discusses the current challenges faced by banks in managing their branch networks and outlines the best ways to transform them.

As the euro and dollar almost reach parity, coping with exchange rate fluctuations is turning into a major challenge for the IT industry. Components purchases are usually in dollars and consequently all hardware manufacturers have to face the strong currency volatility seen in the recent months. This results in vendors and resellers accepting revenue losses in dollars in some cases, while customers have to bear the brunt of price increases. The channel tried to limit its exposure or delay the impact, but this actually added pressure to margins. Reducing current market difficulties to currency impact would be an error, however, as the effect of exchange rates is only one of the factors affecting the IT market and should be taken in context with other trends in each technology area

PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) reached 17.2 million units in the second quarter of 2015, posting a 21.6% decline year-on-year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). As expected, the market continued to suffer from unfavorable exchange rates which led to higher price points and weaker demand, with the decline deepened by the adverse year-on-year comparison with a very strong first half of 2014, when Windows XP related renewals boosted shipments across the region. In addition, high inventories translated into lower shipments in this transition quarter, as the industry focuses on stock depletion in preparation for the Windows 10 launch later this summer.

PRAGUE, 14 June, 2015 — The overall enterprise and consumer wireless local area network (WLAN) market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) decreased 12.6% in value and 20.3% in volume quarter on quarter in Q1 2015. Year on year it grew in value by 2.9%, with almost no change in volume. Growth in four rolling quarters starting in Q2 2014 exceeded 8%, confirming that the WLAN market is dynamic and represents good potential for vendors. According to the results published in the IDC EMEA Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker, the enterprise WLAN market grew 11.3% year on year. WLAN spending in the consumer market decreased nearly 4% year on year, in spite of 4.1% overall growth in the four rolling quarters mentioned above. Sales of 802.11ac-compliant access points contributed 46.3% to enterprise AP market value in Q1 2015, showing rapid proliferation of 802.11ac-compliant devices in the enterprise segment, underpinning the demand for high throughput speeds and mobility in general. In the consumer segment, sales of 802.11ac-compliant devices contributed 23.7% to overall market value.

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker, IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) grew 16% year over year to reach $1.01 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2015. The cloud-related share of total EMEA infrastructure expenditure on server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch grew 2 percentage points compared with the same period a year ago to reach 19% in the quarter.

The integrated systems market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) saw weak growth in 1Q15, reporting $593.66 million in user value to account for year-on-year growth of 9.3%, according to IDC's latest Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker.

IDC estimates that a Greek exit from the common Euro currency would see Greek IT spending spiral to a -18% decline in 2016. Looking ahead to 2019, IDC expects that the cumulative negative impact of a potential Grexit would reduce Greek IT spend by US$3.7 Billion in the forecast period. Western European IT spending would also be negatively impacted, but in a more contained fashion with less than a percentage point decline in terms of overall growth for the revised 2016 forecast.

The external disk storage systems market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in the first quarter of 2015 registered one of its heftiest declines in recent years, dropping 6% year over year to $1.7 billion in user value, according to the IDC EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker 1Q15. Total capacity grew 16% year on year to 2.9 exabytes, with a slowdown in $/GB due to the increasing adoption of flash-powered systems.

According to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) study on tablets in enterprises, a large and increasing share of tablets deployed across U.K., French, and German companies are the only devices that employees are equipped with to perform their business activities.

According to International Data Corporation's (IDC's) Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, the EMEA security appliance market reached $781.07 million, a moderate 2.2% year-on-year decline. Shipments increased by +1.3% year on year to 175,145 units. Over the next five years the security appliance market will accelerate at a CAGR of +5.4% and reach $4.39 billion (923,342 units) by the end of 2019.

The latest International Data Corporation (IDC) study on tablets in enterprises reveals that tablet penetration is accelerating in companies in the U.K., France, and Germany, and is expected to reach more than 15% of the total client device base by 2018, up from 6% in the second half of 2014.

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) thin client market faced a severe contraction in Q1 2015. The shipments declined at -10.2% year-on-year, and resulted in 438 thousand units shipped, according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker published by global IT market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). "Windows XP played a slippery trick with the thin client market in Western Europe hotting up early renewals and new purchases in 2014. Our analysis suggests that the market overshot its long-term growth trend by about 5-7 percentage points," says Oleg Sidorkin, senior research analyst at IDC. "As a result, in the beginning of 2015 the market faced a shortage of new projects and a weak demand. Nevertheless, as the impact of the demand shock fades away, the market will return to the long-term growth by the end of the year."

IDC recently announced the appointment of Duncan Brown to the position of Research Director, European Security Practice. Mr. Brown is a well-known security industry analyst, with a career spanning Ovum, IDC and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC).

International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker shows that in the first quarter of 2015 the EMEA server market continued the positive year-on-year growth seen throughout 2014, to report $3 billion in vendor revenue and 557,182 units shipped, for YoY growth of 6.3% and 3.5% respectively.

Today, Vodafone UK is launching Vodafone Connect, a new home broadband/home phone service to complement its current range of mobile services. The service tariffs include three speed options (up to 17Mbit/s, up to 38Mbit/s and up to 76Mbit/s) with prices starting at £5 per month plus line rental on an 18-month contract, for customers of Vodafone's mobile services.

Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that 6.7 million personal and entry-level storage devices shipped in EMEA in the first quarter of 2015, a decline of 8.8% from a year ago. IDC's Worldwide Personal and Entry-Level Storage Tracker also shows that there was a decline in shipment values, by 14.7% to $512 million.

"In Western Europe, IDC believes that hosted private cloud spending and fully shared public cloud IaaS (infrastructure as a service) are experiencing strong expansion, reaching combined record spending of $6.6 billion in 2015. As the market opportunity expands, so does the range of options available for infrastructure capacity off-premises. Workloads, vertical requirements, and compliance regulation needs will lead to the creation of large, profitable specialized areas for IaaS — both virtual private cloud (VPC) and private hosted — alongside mass-scale IaaS providers."

According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the overall tablet market in Western Europe remained challenged in 1Q15, declining 10.5% year over year with total shipments totaling 8.5 million units. The contraction, however, was mainly the result of sluggish consumer demand as the expansion of tablets in the commercial space accelerates with volumes increasing 51.3% from the same period last year.

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market increased 2.6% in unit terms compared with the same period a year ago, with positive growth for both inkjet and laser segments in line with IDC's forecast. This gave a 1Q15 market figure of 5.49 million units — an increase of 138,621 units. Revenues also increased, by an impressive 8.4%, as more high-speed laser MFPs and business inkjets shipped.