IDC Europe

"Would You Take the Red Pill or The Blue Pill?": A Look at The Core of The Augmented and Virtual Reality

Giulia Carosella
Giulia Carosella (European Digital Transformation Practice Lead)
Augmented and Virtual Reality is a disruptive technology that has the potential to truly change and empower the way in which humans interact with their surrounding environment. There is a lot of buzz around AR/VR, understanding is now widespread across Western Europe, with 99% of companies having already heard of AR/VR, as confirmed by the IDC European Vertical Markets Survey 2017. Read more

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Cloud is Not the Ultimate Objective — Hospitals Will Only Adopt if it Makes Sense

I have had several conversations with hospital CIOs on cloud adoption in the past three months. I needed help in analyzing our IDC survey data on cloud in healthcare, as the data showed a very low adoption rate compared with the industry average. The question was, why is that? Read more

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Vodafone To Acquire Liberty Global Networks in Europe: Bundling Today, Convergence Tomorrow

John Delaney
John Delaney (Associate VP, European Telecoms)
This morning it was confirmed that Vodafone has agreed to acquire Liberty Global’s cable networks in Germany, Hungary, Romania and Czech Republic for EUR 19 billion. The acquisition is Vodafone’s largest since 2000, when it acquired Mannesmann in Germany.Read more

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Sprint and T-Mobile to Merge

John Delaney
On 29 April, it was announced that the US mobile operators Sprint and T-Mobile had agreed a proposal to merge the companies. The deal, worth $26 billion, would create a combined operator, using the T-Mobile brand, with about 130 million customers.Read more

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