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Server market in India rose by 21.6 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2016, with 40,495 units shipped in Q1 2016 as against 33,292 units in Q1 2015. In terms of revenue, there was a 27.8 per cent year on year growth registered in Q1 2016, reported International Data Corporation (IDC). Continued investments from telecom service providers towards 4G deployments, piece-meal investments from local hosting providers and periodic banking refreshes primarily contributed to the national compute demand in Q1 2016. The onset of digitization drives across multiple verticals and cities further drove server...

Surpassing major smartphone brands, Chinese smartphone manufacturing company Vivo Mobile (Vivo) has become the world’s fifth largest smartphone manufacturer. According to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Q1 2016 Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report, the brand shipped 14.3m units in the period — a year-on-year increase of 123.8 percent– achieving 4.3 percent of global market share. According to Vivo’s global vice president and chief marketing officer Alex Feng, “Vivo’s outstanding performance mainly depends upon its commitment to new product development and precise understanding of customer needs. We saw consumers’ needs...

NetApp has ranked at the second position in worldwide all flash array market. According to the IDC Q1 2016 Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, NetApp moved to number 2 from number 4 in the tracker quarter over quarter, with 22.8 percent revenue market share, ahead of Pure, HPE, and IBM. As Per IDC, NetApp all flash array revenue grew 238.2 percent year over year, 2.7 times faster than the market growth of 87.4 percent year over year. Its all flash array business has grown to an annual net revenue run rate...