2014 trends forecast for Internet of things and large data

2014 is coming. In the technology market, a series of technological trends in the 2013 will continue in 2014, such as cloud computing, big data, the rise of tablet computers and emerging things on the internet. Research firm IDC forecasts how these trends will unfold next year, as follows:

Technology spending for individuals and businesses will reach 2.1 trillion dollars

IDC says global IT spending will grow 5% to 2.1 trillion dollars. In 2014, individuals and businesses will buy a large number of smartphones and tablets, and spending will grow by 15% from 2013. At the same time, companies will buy new hardware to strengthen their data centers to better match the use of mobile devices, which require servers, storage space, networks, software and services.

The only thing they won't buy is a PC. IDC expects global PC revenues to fall by 6% in 2014.

Users outside the US and Europe will be buying tech products wildly

In the 2014, users and businesses in emerging markets will be frantically buying new technology products. IDC predicts that spending on technology products from Brazil, Russia, India and China (often referred to as the BRIC) will increase by 13% from 2013, with the strongest purchasing power in the Chinese market.

At the same time, IDC predicts that other emerging countries will also spend a lot of money on technology products, including Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

All in all, technology spending outside the US and Europe will grow by 10% to $740 billion trillion in 2014, more than 1/3 of total global IT spending.

Companies will invest a lot of money into cloud computing

2013, the manufacturers began to focus on cloud computing. In the 2014, the spending on cloud computing by major companies would be unbelievable.

In 2014, IDC predicts, cloud computing spending will reach $100 billion trillion, up 25% from 2013, including products that hardware cloud providers must buy to cater to consumers ' needs.

Amazon and Google to start a war in cloud computing

In the 2014, cloud computing will become more and more specialized, and more cloud services will be launched for specific industries.

IDC predicts that Amazon's Web services will launch a large number of new services for developers and businesses in 2014, and Google will vigorously develop cloud computing services.

All IT companies, such as Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,EMC, Microsoft and VMware, will be competing with Amazon and Google in cloud computing in the Pre-cloud era.

Mobile devices will endanger Microsoft

In the past few years, mobile devices have emerged, and the 2014 mobile device market will continue to flourish. IDC expects global tablet sales to grow by 18% next year, while smartphone sales will grow by 12%.

Today, mobile devices have become a huge market. By the end of 2013, the revenue generated by smartphones and tablets under 350 dollars would be as high as $423.1 billion trillion, IDC predicts.

Currently, the mobile device market is dominated by Apple and Samsung. IDC predicts that Android developers will start making money in 2014, but they still earn less than iOS developers.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the 2014 for Microsoft will be a crucial year, can be said to be "unsuccessful and martyrdom." IDC says Microsoft needs to quickly attract mobile developers ' interest in the Windows platform.

"Big data" is getting bigger.

IDC expects spending on "big data" technologies and services to grow by 30% to $14 billion in 2014.

"Big Data" is a large amount of data that enterprise access stores in their own data centers and elsewhere in the Internet. They use computers to parse this data to predict business conditions and service customers. Today, "Big data" has become the hottest it vocabulary.

2014, "Big data" applications will be "cloud services" in the form of delivery to enterprises, enterprises will be "services" in the form of "large data", without the need to build "big data."

Social networks will be very "hot"

IDC predicts that in the 2014, corporate social networking will become a feature in most enterprise software. In other words, companies will no longer be interested in buying "corporate Facebook" chat apps Separately, and "corporate Facebook" chat apps will be part of other apps that are adopted by corporate users.

By 2015, IDC says, almost all enterprise software will have some kind of built-in social function.

The rise of "community innovation"

IDC said 2014 will see the rise of "community innovation". That is, corporate users will no longer be creating a new product or service on their own, but increasingly using social technology to get inspiration from multiple sources, such as customers, partners, and start-ups.

Each industry has its own "innovation platform", where crowds gather, an early example of GE's industrial internet Platform Predix, a cloud service that can help large industry companies build their products.

The Internet of things will be a reality.

A new version of the internet appeared in 2012, allowing billions of of devices to join the Internet to create the so-called "IoT of Things" (IoT).

In the 2013, large it vendors such as Cisco and Salesforce began publishing their first "IoT" (IoT) products. IDC expects more large suppliers, or even start-ups, to launch "IoT" products in 2014. In 2020, the "Internet of Things" (IoT) generated revenue will be as high as $8.9 trillion trillion.