For High-tech Industries, 2014 is a transformational year. A recent report by IDC, a market research firm, shows that there will be fierce competition and mergers and acquisitions in the IT industry in 2014, with many small IT companies being bought by big companies. The report forecasts the development of the IT industry in the 2014 and believes there are 9 major trends that will focus on innovative developments in cloud computing, big data, tablet and IoT (note: not the Internet). The following is IDC's 9 forecasts for the 2014 IT industry outlook.
Global IT industry growth 5%
IDC reported that the Smartphone Peace Board will continue to be chased by people, living in Mengcheng liveamtl.com sales bullish. 60% of global IT business growth in 2014 came from the growth of smartphones and tablets. Growth will also occur in areas such as servers, storage, networks, software, and services, mainly in cloud computing and large data.
Global smartphones are expected to grow by 12% in 2013, with tablets growing by 18%. Smartphone Peace board sales will reach nearly 500 billion yuan by the end of 2014, an increase of 15% from 2013.
Emerging market IT industry grows big
IDC reported that in 2014, emerging market IT sales will account for 35% of global IT sales, and 60% of global IT growth comes from emerging markets. IT business in Brazil, Russia, India and other countries will grow in 2014.
IDC reported that the number of global data centers will increase dramatically in 2014, and that data globalization will provide a broad space for development in the cloud market. (Fotolia)
Cloud market business grows dramatically
2013, cloud computing received a cold shoulder. However, IDC reported that the number of global data centers will increase dramatically in 2014, and that data globalization will provide a broad space for development in the cloud market. Cloud technology and services will grow by 25% in 2014 and invest more than 100 billion dollars.
Amazon and Google etc burst cloud war
The IDC report says cloud computing will develop in depth in 2014, triggering a scramble for cloud markets. The leading Amazon Network Service (AWS) provides developers and businesses with cloud technology software development platforms that force traditional IT vendors to "reinvent themselves".
Google is working overtime to develop cloud technology software platforms, trying to showdown with Amazon. Traditional IT companies Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft and VMware are also starting to deploy and will soon join the "cloud market" scramble.
Microsoft faces challenges
The mobile device (Smartphone peace Board) market will remain dominated by Apple and Samsung in 2014. The profit growth of Android mobile software development will be better than the profit growth of iOS mobile software development.
In 2014, Microsoft's mobile device market, the surface tablet, would face a "life-and-death" challenge, IDC said. In the fierce competition, the micro-Mengcheng information liveamtl.com soft need to quickly invest more money to develop Windows application software in this field.
IDC expects large data technology and services to grow by 30% in 2014, with sales exceeding 14 billion yuan. (Fotolia)
Large data growth
IDC expects large data technology and services to grow by 30% in 2014, with sales exceeding 14 billion yuan. Large data Analysis Services will be in short supply, there is a shortage of talent. 2014, the cost of large data Analysis Services will be more than 4.5 billion U.S. dollars, a 21% increase in 2013.
The Montreal Life LIVEAMTL.COMIDC report shows that in the 2014, cloud services will play a more important role in the big data market, and applications such as cloud computing for data transmission, analysis and services will be taken seriously. It hardware vendors will also be forced to adopt the "cloud first" strategy; in 2014, 25% to 30% of servers will be connected to cloud computing data centers, which will increase to 43% by 2017.
Social networking technology Fading
Despite the increasing number of social networking users, IDC believes social networking software will lose its luster in 2014 years. The reason is that social software and applications will become an integral part of the enterprise's software system, just as browsers are part of the operating system, and no business is dedicated to buying browsers.
IDC expects that by the middle of 2015, all enterprise software systems will bring their own social applications. When purchasing an enterprise software system, the company will buy fewer social applications alone.
Group Package Software development system
Group Package software development system is an enterprise-centric Community innovation platform. For example, GE's predix system can organically link it developers, corporate customers, partners, and innovation companies to application development. In 2014 to 2017, the cluster software development business will grow at an annual rate of 60%, IDC said.
The advent of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (Internetofthings,iot) was born in 2012 to connect physical devices to the web, making them intelligent or intelligent. Cisco and Salesforce first launched the Internet of Things in 2013.
IDC says more companies will launch their Internet products in 2014. By 2020, the IoT will create 30 billion automatic terminals, bringing the Internet to 30 billion devices, and the total revenue from the IoT will reach 8.9 trillion dollars.