Around 100 of East Africa's most influential IT leaders yesterday gathered at the Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi for the second annual installment of International Data Corporation's East Africa CIO Summit. Among the guests were Victor Kyalo, CEO of the ICT Authority of Kenya, whose keynote speech delivered on the 'Where ...
Buoyed by holiday purchases and aggressive end-of-year promotions, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market recorded robust year-on-year growth in the final quarter of 2014 with the latest figure recording a 26.1% year on year in Q4 2014 to total 4.43 million units. The activities of several Far East ...
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) enterprise hardware market, comprising servers and external storage, remained in a passive growth state according to the latest figures released today by International Data Corporation (IDC). Referencing its EMEA Quarterly Server and Disk Storage Systems Tracker, the research firm today announced that the market ...
Participants at the IDC Enterprise Mobility Forum 2014 in Johannesburg today learnt that organizations that fail to set clear mobility strategies are in grave danger of losing out to the competition, and a complete failure to embrace this new reality will have potentially catastrophic consequences. The event, which brought together ...
The growth potential of the African hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market remains intact and this is despite suffering a slight decline in Q2 2014 according to the International Data Corporation whose latest figures show the region experienced year-on-year declines of 1.6% in volume and 2.8% in value during Q2 2014. South ...
A partnership dunned ‘Africa Together’ between the International Data Corporation (IDC) and Egypt's Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) has been formed with the purpose of helping ICT firms in the country penetrate high-growth markets across the African continent. According to statistics, ICT usage and penetration is still low despite ...
Nigeria mobile network operators (MNO)s are evolving as far as their business models are concerned and are now increasingly scoping outsourcing models in collaboration with third-party infrastructure providers rather than deploying and owning their entire network infrastructure themselves. According to global consulting and advisory services firm International Data Corporation (IDC), ...
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), Kenya has recorded a 21.5 per cent growth in the mobile handset market after the re-introduction of VAT on handsets in 2013 by the government which has seen the country’s unofficial market benefit from the move. The premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory ...
