Digital Technology - Italian Market Trend - IQ 2010
Milan, 24 May 2010 – SIRMI SPA has issued its analysis on the Digital Technology Market for the first quarter of 2010. The market registers a growth near to zero in comparison with the same period of last year but with the first sign of a recovery.
Here below, a summary of the analysis:
ITALIAN ICT Market - IQ 2010
The End User expense in IT products and services registers a value of 5.536 millions euro in the IQ 2010, with a decrease of 0,6% over the same period of last year.
Almost all segments of
Hardware offer show a decrease of expense but also a slowdown of the decreasing trend, in comparison with the same period of last year.
Software end user expenses increase by 2,4% in IQ 2010 over last year. All the three market segments increase: System software (+2%), Middleware and Tools (+3,7%) and Application (+0,6%).
IT Services register a decrease by 1,5% over IQ 2009: this is the result of a further decrease of the expenses in development services (-4,3%) and of the flat trend of management services (+0,6%).
Also
TLC market show a flat trend in terms of expenses in comparison with the same period of 2009 (+0,3%) with a final value of 10.066 millions of euro. In particular, TLC mobile increase by more than 1% while TLC fixed decrease by 0,6%.
ITALIAN PC CLIENT MARKET - IQ 2010
PC Client Italian market turnover is steady (-0,7%) in comparison with the IQ 2009 while the units delivered increase by 12,2%.
In detail,
Desktops register a recover in IQ 2010 both in sales and units delivered.
Netbooks register the most important result (+31,4% in sales and +50,4% in units) along with
Notebooks Consumer (+17,1% in sales and +27,1% in units). Opposite trend for Business Notebook that decrease by -23,5% in terms of turnover and by -24,7% in terms of units sold.
ITALIAN MIDRANGE MARKET - IQ 2010
Systems Unix and Proprietary maintain the same decreasing trend of last year in turnover and volumes.
Servers with
Intel/AMD architecture show in IQ 2010 a very negative trend, in particular concerning sales (-17,8%).
PC Servers standard register an opposite trend: after a difficult 2009, it show a positive trend: sales increase by 7,1% and units sold increase by 8%.
ITALIAN STORAGE MARKET - IQ 2010
Storage market registers a positive trend in IQ 2010 (+8,3% over IQ 2009), thanks to high performance of lines of products of medium line addressed to Medium Enterprise or solutions for specific sectors of Large Enterprise.