The third platform is the concept presented by IDC, an IT industry research firm, in the middle of 2012. Among them, cloud computing, large data, mobile, social networking are the four core elements of the third platform. As opposed to the third platform, the first platform is the mainframe computer (host/terminal) system which has been going on in the 1950s, and the second platform has hundreds of millions of users and tens of thousands of applications. IDC believes that the third platform is the future of ICT. Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14054.html "> The value of information technology is shifting from a computing-centric, business-centric to a user-centric era.
According to a recent IDC report, 3721.html ">2014 global IT spending will reach $2.1 trillion trillion, a 5% increase from 2013." Smartphones and tablets will lead growth in 2014, at a growth rate of 13%. In addition to mobile devices, servers, storage, networks, software, services and other major markets will grow, only the PC market is expected to fall 6%.
Investment in large data areas will explode, more than $14 billion trillion, up 30%. 80% of the killer apps on the third platform will be data-intensive. Large data Analysis Services will explode. This will cost more than 4.5 billion dollars and grow by 21%.
Such forecasts are also evidenced by the performance of storage providers such as EMC, which has maintained a sustained growth in sales for the 3 quarters of 2013 years ago. Global Senior vice president, Greater China President Ye Chenghui that: the entire IT industry to the third platform transition is the trend. But in the future for quite a long time, will be the second platform and the third platform parallel. In China, the process may be slower than the US. Providing customers with Best-of-breed, level-structured, free choice Solutions is the key to meeting the needs of users to differentiate them from the single brand of End-to-end solutions.
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