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Lenovo Reclaims the #1 Spot in PC
Rankings in
Q3 2018
Preliminary results for the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18) show that shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled nearly 67.4 million units, marking a decline of 0.9% in year-on-year terms, ...
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Global Smartphone Shipments Down
6.0% in Q3 2018
According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 355.2 million units during the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18), resulting in a year-over-year decline of 6.0%. .
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WW Spending on Cloud IT Infrastructure Continued Its
Double-Digit Growth)
Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 48.4% year over year in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), reaching $15.4 billion.
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Worldwide Server Market Revenue Grew 43.7% Year
Over Year
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 43.7%, year over year to $22.5 billion during the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18). Worldwide server shipments increased 20.5% year over year to 2.9 million units in 2Q18.
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Leaders Dominate Public Cloud Services
Market
The worldwide public cloud services market grew 29% in 2017, reaching a total of $132 billion, according to results from the 2H 2017 release of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker.
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