Symantec has been described as a “leader” among mobile threat management software vendors in a recent International Data Corp. MarketScape report. The research firm evaluated Symantec and eight other vendors for its “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Mobile Threat Management Security Software 2017 Vendor Assessment” report, Symantec said Wednesday. Vendors were categorized into leaders, participants, contenders and major players as […] More

An IDC Government Insights report has designated Unisys as one of the top information technology enterprise companies that serve the U.S. federal government. Unisys said Wednesday it ranked eighth in the 2017 IDC Federal IT Rankings based on the company’s revenues from government IT products and services. “We are pleased that leading analysts and thought leaders in the federal […] More

A business unit of International Data Corp. has ranked companies with the highest revenues from the sale of information technology products and services to federal government customers in 2017. IDC Government Insights said Wednesday its 2017 Federal IT Rankings are based on federal IT providers’ calendar year revenues for IT hardware, software and services instead of potential earnings […] More

The Missile Defense Agency performed Tuesday a live-fire test of the Boeing-built Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense platform. During the test, the GMD system helped guide a ground-based interceptor that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to zero in on an intercontinental ballistic missile target that lifted off from […] More

Alan Webber, research director at IDC Government Insights, told Cisco in an interview published Monday that cloud computing, big data and analytics, internet of things, mobility, user experience and identity and security are the six technology platforms that will play a role in digital government. Webber said that cloud will work to reduce the number of […] More

International Data Corp. has named Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s U.S. public sector business as a “major player” on the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Systems Integrators Serving the Federal Government 2016 Vendor Assessment study. Cedric Harris, a communications professional at HPE, writes in a blog post published Friday the research assessed characteristics that support an integrator’s success in U.S. federal […] More

A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

An IDC MarketScape report designated Unisys a “leader” among systems integrators that serve the U.S. federal government and recognized the company’s security and cloud portfolio. Unisys said Friday the vendor assessment report noted the company’s offerings such as the Unisys Stealth micro-segmentation software and its DevOps and Agile software development methodologies. The company added the IDC report also indicate that government customers point […] More

A new International Data Corp. report predicts consumer and enterprise spending on mobile software, devices and services to hit $1.85 trillion by 2019, up from $1.66 trillion in 2015. IDC said Thursday the figure represents a compound annual growth rate of 2.7 percent over four years as commercial enterprises across industries seek to transform their operations. According to […] More

A new International Data Corp. survey has found that utilities companies in Western Europe will prioritize spending on cybersecurity efforts, such as cloud and mobile security and data loss prevention, over the next 12 months. IDC Energy Insights said Monday it predicts the Western European utilities sector’s spending on software platforms to hit approximately $3.2 billion, particularly […] More

An International Data Corp. report forecasts public cloud services spending will increase to around $141 billion by 2019 from almost $70 billion last year, with software as a service to overtake other cloud computing service models. The public cloud-spend projection represents a compound annual growth rate of 19.4 percent and is nearly six times the projected CAGR for […] More

A recent International Data Corp. report predicts government spending worldwide on Internet of Things platforms to hit $1.2 trillion in the next two years, according to an article published Monday on Cisco‘s website. Ruthbea Clarke, smart cities research director at IDC, said transportation, energy, environment and tourism, and public safety are the four public sector divisions that will see […] More