IDC IT Market Overview

    The global IT market exceeds two trillion US dollars. The most dynamic segment is software; it is growing at 6% annually. The category of collaboration applications is developing rapidly.

    Industry Development IT analysts IDC presented in the form of three platforms. Thousands of users worked on the first one, it is built on the basis of mainframes and terminals. Then came the traditional personal computers and the Internet, technology became available to hundreds of thousands of users. Today, billions of users use mobile devices, cloud services and social technologies to access information and work .

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    An important component of the “third platform” is big data. Distinctive features of technology: speed, variability and volume. Data from various sources of tens of terabytes is analyzed in near real-time mode. Costs for these technologies will grow, according to IDC estimates, from twenty billion dollars in 2013 to seventy billion by 2018.

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    Cloud technologies provide remote access to resources, including from mobile devices. Services save money by standardizing hardware, virtualization, and application sharing. 16 of the 100 largest software developers receive more than 50% of the revenue from the cloud delivery model. IDC forecast cloud service spending will grow from $ 40 billion in 2013 to $ 120 billion in 2018.

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    The development of solutions based on the “third platform” will ensure market growth.

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    The most successful IPOs in the past few years include Alibaba , Twitter and Facebook. The initial offering of shares of the Chinese Internet retailer was the largest in history, it brought the company $ 21.8 billion, and taking into account the implementation of the option to sell additional shares, the volume reached 25 billion. Twitter raised $ 1.82 billion, while Facebook raised $ 16 billion.

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    The largest public IT company in the world is Apple, whose capitalization, according to the report, is $ 483.1 billion. As of February 11, 2015, this figure was already 700 billion.

    The top ten included eight American companies. Lenovo takes ninth place with a capitalization of 11.9 billionGroup Closes the Accenture rating from Ireland.

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    In 2013, the largest Russian IT company was LANIT holding with a turnover of 2.15 billion US dollars, if we take the current rate that year - 31.89 rubles per 1 dollar. The volume of the Russian market in 2013 amounted to 34.49 billion.

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    The analytical report was compiled by IDC by order of the Moscow Exchange and RVC. The full version of the report.

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